A curious incident at the airport: after plastic surgery, three Chinese women were not allowed on the plane (3 photos). A photograph of three Chinese women detained at the airport after undergoing plastic surgery in South Korea has gone viral online. Three bandaged Chinese women at the airport.

Three Chinese women were not immediately able to get home from South Korea, from where they were returning after plastic surgery: they were not recognized at passport control at the South Korean airport, and were detained until their identities were clarified, reports Shanghaiist. A photo of three Chinese women with swollen faces and passports in their hands has gone viral on the Internet.

They went to South Korea to undergo plastic surgery during the autumn Golden Week - the main public holiday - the 68th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Plastic surgery in South Korea is relatively cheap, which is why it attracts medical tourists. Two thirds of foreigners come from China.

Due to swelling and bandages from plastic surgery, they found themselves in a difficult situation at immigration control, which Chinese netizens learned about on Sunday after Chinese TV presenter Jianhua Hua posted a photo on her account on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

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Their appearance was so different from their passport photographs, the TV presenter explained, that it raised questions from the authorities. "Even their mothers couldn't recognize them," she was quoted as saying by Apple Daily. As the Chinese publication clarifies, the women were forced to wait for identity confirmation.

Plastic surgery has become a Korean national brand. Many foreigners, especially from China, fly to South Korea specifically to have plastic surgery. Incidents at airports when border guards do not allow Chinese citizens through because of their changed appearance happen very often. This case gained particular notoriety because of the photographs, which many Internet users found comical.

As noted on the TecRussia website, dedicated to plastic surgery, swelling after facial plastic surgery, in particular nose surgery (rhinoplasty), is an obligatory and inevitable element of the postoperative period, the same as bandages, hematomas and the need to breathe through the mouth.

They do not go away in the first weeks and even months. Swelling of the face occurs after a facelift; 2-3 days after surgery, special swelling is observed near the eyes. The hematoma goes away within one or two weeks after the surgeon’s intervention.

In South Korea, women, in their desire to be more like Europeans, resort to raising the corners of their lips, thanks to which a woman can constantly smile without making any effort. Plastic surgery is quite painful and risky, since if it fails, ugly scars remain on the lips.

These Chinese women were stranded at a South Korean airport because they simply could not be identified from their passport photos. The girls didn’t look like themselves at all, because they were still in bandages, and the post-operative swelling had not yet left their faces. Photos of tourists who found themselves in a difficult situation first appeared in all Chinese media, and then spread literally throughout the world.

Plastic surgeons in South Korea are renowned as some of the best specialists in their field, so it is not surprising that women from most Asian countries, including China and Japan, regularly fly here to go under the knife of true professionals and have their faces touched up. Many patients do not stop at rhinoplasty, facelift or Botox injections. They completely remake their faces, and sometimes even cause problems during passport control at customs and airports.

There are different types of tourism, and for some time now there have also been trips entirely dedicated to plastic surgery. Due to the active development of this area of ​​​​business, some plastic surgery clinics have begun to issue special certificates to their foreign clients confirming their identity for border control personnel. The new type of documents includes the serial number of the patient's passport, the length of his stay in the clinic, the name and address of the institution and its official seal.

Travelers passing through customs with these certificates generally do not encounter problems, regardless of what plastic surgery procedures they have undergone. As a rule, the identification procedure in this case takes a little longer, but plastic surgeons eventually fly home without any particular difficulties. Unfortunately, for three Chinese women who tried to return home almost immediately after surgery, certificates from plastic surgeons did not help much.

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The main problem with facial plastic surgery is that the body needs some time to recover from such a specific invasive procedure. The three ladies in the title photo, who decided to spend the Golden Week holiday (traditional Chinese holiday) at a plastic surgery clinic in South Korea, had no idea that the recovery process could prevent them from returning home. The girls showed up at the airport still bandaged and swollen, barely recovering from anesthesia, and it was impossible for border guards to identify them from their passport photographs. As a result, the tourists had to stock up on considerable patience before they managed to return to their homeland.

An example of the result of extreme plastic surgery performed in South Korea:

Many Internet users took this story as a joke, but in fact it was like that. For example, one commenter wrote the following: “With such a swollen face, even your own mother will not be able to recognize you.”

So if you're thinking of flying to another country to see a plastic surgeon to correct your nose or face contour, spend at least a few days in a hotel before rushing to the airport and going through passport control.

Three Chinese women were detained at a South Korean airport because their faces, swollen and bandaged after plastic surgery, did not resemble the photographs in the documents.

The image of bandaged Chinese women with swollen faces awaiting a decision from immigration officials instantly went viral, being liked 51,000 times and shared by 23,000 people.

The girls went to South Korea during the Golden Week celebrations to get plastic surgery.

South Korean plastic surgery clinics are known as some of the best in the world. Women from other Asian countries such as China and Japan regularly fly to South Korea to improve their appearance. But often girls are so transformed that airport staff cannot identify them with their passport photo.

Many clinics offer foreign clients “plastic surgery certificates” that help them pass passport control. These certificates indicate the patient's passport number, length of stay, name and location of the hospital. Travelers passing through airport customs with these certificates are usually identified by some facial feature that the plastic surgeon has left unchanged.

But the certificates did not help these three women. Apparently, the Chinese women did not have time to recover, so they went to the airport with swollen and bandaged faces, and the presence of passports and tickets could not convince immigration officials. How the Chinese women’s journey ended is not reported.