![]() LUSE: A few years later, she found she was still thinking about Korea's vision of beauty. But in the midst of geopolitical tension, she noticed that at every street corner, in every magazine, TV show, and even from other people, that there was an expectation she wasn't meeting.ĮLISE HU, BYLINE: I saw so many before-and-after signs and so many advertisements of what to look like and skin care places and face shops across from face shops and across from face shops. NPR's Elise Hu found Korean beauty standards so revealing she wrote a book called "Flawless" and talked with Brittany Luse of It's Been A Minute.īRITTANY LUSE, BYLINE: When Elise moved to South Korea in 2015 to set up the first NPR Seoul bureau, her reporting focus was quite clear - a pretty busy time for geopolitics and a lot of missile provocations from North Korea. Those judgments are a little different in different places, as one of our longtime colleagues discovered when she moved. ![]() ![]() ![]() No matter where you live, people make judgments based on how you look. ![]()
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