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Since the early 1990s, body politics have become conspicuously visible and a kind of fashionable lifestyle among young women in Korea, because the young woman with good looks and a slim body could have more opportunities to present and practice her abilities. Through them, the body is considered as ...

Since the early 1990s, body politics have become conspicuously visible and a kind of fashionable lifestyle among young women in Korea, because the young woman with good looks and a slim body could have more opportunities to present and practice her abilities. Through them, the body is considered as the immediately symbolic but, at the same time, peripheral space for the presentation of her individual self and the best place to build up her female identity. Various kinds of body management like diet, exercise, and cosmetic surgery have become popular among young Korean women. Enormously influenced by the mass media, more young women in their 20s make their female bodies into a site of investment, and objectify it as a project in which fabrication could be processed. Adult women in their 40s and 50s are not much different from these young women. This phenomenon of "slim body" making is fostering and spreading a new means of self-realization and a logic of inclusion and exclusion, according to the social concept of "cultural passing" in this capitalistic consumer society. Thus, the dynamics between the performance and the subjectivity of "slim body" making increase not the possibility of resistance but the voluntary self-integration into the dominant power relations.

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