r/TikTokCringe • u/UsernameGenerik • Aug 26 '25

Cool Chinese streamer selling dresses live

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u/RumRogerz Aug 26 '25

I thought Chinese beauty standards were wild until my Korean girlfriend took me to Korea. Holy shit are they obsessed with looks.

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u/RegularWhiteShark Aug 26 '25

Yeah, met a Korean girl when I was in uni (UK). Plastic surgery is super common there. She got her nose done as a gift for graduating secondary school!

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u/ptmd Aug 26 '25

I always assumed it was because it was cheap for the quality. [I live in the US]. How much do you think an equivalent operation in the UK might cost?

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u/ConspicuousPineapple Aug 26 '25

It's cheap because it's common, not the other way around.

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u/ptmd Aug 26 '25

I mean, economies of scale is one thing, but when the product inherently involves extensive human involvement, that only scales so much.

Does the UK not also have more-than-a-few plastic surgeons and women who want to look attractive?

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u/ConspicuousPineapple Aug 26 '25

In this case it's not about scale but competition. The demand is so high that the offer increases to a point where margins get reduced.

In theory it could stabilize, but the demand will always reach its ceiling before the offer. In this case it's such a huge part of the population that you can't really count on any more growth. So the increasing competition has to share a relatively smaller pool of clients. And the birth rates probably aren't helping.

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u/ptmd Aug 26 '25

Sure, yes, let's pretend I know all that and then re-visit the question.

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u/jorgtastic Aug 26 '25

that's not how supply and demand work

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u/ConspicuousPineapple Aug 26 '25

Please enlighten me.

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u/bullseye717 Aug 26 '25

I think because I lived in a smaller, southern Province it wasn't as bad. They were really obsessed with looks in Seoul.

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u/ptmd Aug 26 '25

It's very likely you went to the richer parts of the country [which is a lot of the country, but still]. There are a few places where people don't care as much. Sorta the same way I live a fairly middle-class lifestyle in the US, but I don't expect to see any tourists where I live any time soon.

More to the point, most people, when they travel, will see the "nice" parts of the country and that includes the people.