Korea turns to plastic surgery to speak English, chop a centimetre or so off your tongue and become a fluent English speaker.
That is the hope that recently drove one mother to take her six-year-old son for surgery aimed at ridding him of his Korean accent when speaking the language of choice in global business.
Driven by a desire to give their children an edge in an increasingly competitive society, a number of South Koreans have turned to the knife in a drastic attempt to help their offspring perfect their English.
"Those who have a short frenulum [a strap of tissue linking the tongue to the floor of the mouth] can face problems pronouncing some characters due to a disturbance in lateral movements of the tongue," said Bae Jung-ho, an oral surgeon at Seoul’s Yonsei Severance Hospital, who operated on the six-year-old last month.
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