At the risk of sounding old, one of the movies that left a deep impression on me is the 2006 South Korean film 200 Pounds Beauty. Fun fact: the film is actually based on the Japanese manga Kanna’s Big Success! (カンナさん大成功です!, Kanna-san Daiseikou Desu!).

The movie revolves around Hanna Kang, an overweight ghost singer and the real talent behind Ammy, a famous but talentless K-Pop star who cannot sing. After a series of heartbreaking events, Hanna decides to undergo extensive plastic surgery in a bid to gain more self-confidence and turn her life around. Even now, listening to the film’s theme song Maria gives me chills. Well, you might be thinking why am I talking about this on Seedly? According to a statistically representative survey of 1,202 respondents in Singapore (via Statista) reported that 9 per cent have undergone plastic surgery while half of them responded that they are considering it....