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Viral sensastion 'Gangnam style' sparked imitations worldwide. Yet closer to home, the dream to be like such K-Pop idols is driving young South Koreans to a darker level of imitation: plastic surgery. "Once people graduate almost all of them get double-eyelid surgery", explains Gina, who recently left high-school. "In Korea they say, 'please make my nose into the style of this star'." In the district that is home to K-Pop's major entertainment companies there are over 300 plastic surgery clinics on a single street. But some fear this growing beauty obsession is threatening young people's sense of identity; "they treat their body as a product. They are losing the meaning of who they are".]]>

Viral sensastion 'Gangnam style' sparked imitations worldwide. Yet closer to home, the dream to be like such K-Pop idols is driving young South Koreans to a darker level of imitation: plastic surgery. "Once people graduate almost all of them get double-eyelid surgery", explains Gina, who recently left high-school. "In Korea they say, 'please make my nose into the style of this star'." In the district that is home to K-Pop's major entertainment companies there are over 300 plastic surgery clinics on a single street. But some fear this growing beauty obsession is threatening young people's sense of identity; "they treat their body as a product. They are losing the meaning of who they are".]]> https://documentary.net/video/the-k-pop-effect-plastic-surgery/feed/ 0 https://documentary.net/video/sound-machines-of-the-amazon/ https://documentary.net/video/sound-machines-of-the-amazon/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:43:59 +0000 http://documentary.net/?p=5619

Ask anyone who's spent time in Brazil about Brazilian music, and they're liable to mention a few things: Cachaça in tiny nightclubs, dancing women's heels; the glittery, and the militant, Miami bass vibe of favela funk. But that's the popular stuff, the music of Rio and São Paulo. Way up in the isolated northern state of Pará, right on the edge of the Amazonian wilds, something else is playing. The people of Belém, the capital of Pará, listen to technobrega. Literally meaning “tacky techno,” technobrega shows are like carnivalesque Jamaican dancehall parties set to blaring, early-90s arena house. Oh, and it looks like outer space and there's fire shooting out of stuff. The whole scene lives off of the parties themselves, with DJs and artists who actively encourage people to pirate their music just to help get their name out there and fill the next show. All in all it makes for an incredibly prolific and tight-knit scene unlike any other out there. The film team traveled to Belém to check out the technobrega scene. By Derek Mead, Vice]]>

Ask anyone who's spent time in Brazil about Brazilian music, and they're liable to mention a few things: Cachaça in tiny nightclubs, dancing women's heels; the glittery, and the militant, Miami bass vibe of favela funk. But that's the popular stuff, the music of Rio and São Paulo. Way up in the isolated northern state of Pará, right on the edge of the Amazonian wilds, something else is playing. The people of Belém, the capital of Pará, listen to technobrega. Literally meaning “tacky techno,” technobrega shows are like carnivalesque Jamaican dancehall parties set to blaring, early-90s arena house. Oh, and it looks like outer space and there's fire shooting out of stuff. The whole scene lives off of the parties themselves, with DJs and artists who actively encourage people to pirate their music just to help get their name out there and fill the next show. All in all it makes for an incredibly prolific and tight-knit scene unlike any other out there. The film team traveled to Belém to check out the technobrega scene. By Derek Mead, Vice]]> https://documentary.net/video/sound-machines-of-the-amazon/feed/ 1