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Nose-related aesthetic preferences among Koreans
Topic Started: Apr 30 2016, 09:39:20 PM (187 Views)
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When Dobke et al. conducted a survey concerning the facial aesthetic preferences of Korean American women in southern California (n=50), they confirmed that...
- most interwiewees preferred a straight dorsum in women (46=92%) and a few a convex one (4=8%) but none a concave one
- most interviewees preferred "triangular" nostrils (36=72%) and relatively few "oval" ones (14=28%) but none "horizontal" ones

So there seems to be an aesthetic bias in favour of straight noses and nostrils like in most East Asians implying an all in all rather flat ideal nose, which can neither be extremely concave nor extremely convex. Accordingly, one might suppose that mildly concave noses, which seem to be relatively common in Koreans, can be counted as "straight" in this context. And only pronouncedly concave noses (like in some SE Asians and Europeans) might have been considered less beautiful.

Apart from that, most interviewees appeared to have preferred noses classified as "large" by the authors. This most likely alludes to a "large" appearance of the nose when seen from the front as their figure 1 indicates. In this sense, Korean American women might prefer a slightly broader and possibly also slightly thicker nose than Japanese American women. (The latter preferred "oval" nostrils to "triangular" ones implying that they aesthetically prefer a thinner nose in the nostril region in particular.)

Dobke et al. did not seem to have addressed nose prominence directly. Judging from some of the academic literature available nowadays, one one might guess that some contemporary Korean women might prefer to have noses slightly more prominent than their natural ones. But these are not those who already prominent noses when compared with average East Asians in general. This is what some figures depicting the results of reductive surgeries in the articles by Jang and Kim from 2011 and 2015 IMO confirm. Furthermore, Yu and Jang depict pre-operative and post-operative photos of an according surgery, the result of which is a straight and slightly prominent nose. Judging from an article by Zhang Xinghua et al, from 2011, the latter might be the norm in urban northern as opposed to rural northern China. So the same could be the case in Korea... Urban living standards generally being higher than rural ones for many people, urban people tend to marry later on in life. So they are not only older (and look like that) when marrying.They might moreover have a preference for physical markers of more advanced age, such as a slightly more prominent nose. Such markers might imply experience IRL, which is very necessary in typically kind of anonymous urban surroundings, where one can trust in almost nobody.

Sources:
Dobke et al. 2006: "Facial Aesthetic Preferences Among Asian Women: Are All Oriental Asians the Same"
Jang 2011: "Classification of convex nasal dorsum deformities in Asian patients and treatment outcomes"
Jang 2015: "How to beautify Asian nose"
Yu and Jang 2014: "Preoperative Computer Simulation"
张兴华 et al. 2011: "山东寿光汉族体质特征"
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