Flawless

Lessons in Looks and Culture from the K-Beauty Capital

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<b><b>One of Porchlight's Business Books of the Year | One of <i>Vox</i>'s Best Books of 2023 | An NPR Book of the Day | Required Reading from <i>New York Post </i>| One of <i>Nylon</i>'s 13 May Books to Add to Your Reading List | One of <i>PureWow's </i>14 Books to Read for AAPI Heritage Month | One of <i>W Magazine</i>'s 14 Books to Dive Into This Summer | One of <i>Betches' </i>Best Summer Reads of 2023</b><br><br>An audacious journalistic exploration of the present and future of beauty through the lens of South Korea's booming "K-beauty" industry and the culture it promotes, by Elise Hu, NPR host-at-large and the host of <i>TED Talks Daily</i></b><br><br> K-beauty has captured imaginations worldwide by promising a kind of mesmerizing perfection. Its skincare and makeup products creams packaged to look like milkshakes or pandas, and snail mucus face masks, to name a few work together to fascinate us, champion consumerism, and invite us to indulge. In the four years Elise spent in Seoul as NPR s bureau chief, the global K-beauty industry quadrupled. Today it's worth [...] billion and is only getting bigger as it rides the Hallyu wave around the globe.<br><br> And fun as self-care consumerism may be, Elise turns her veteran eye to the darker questions lurking beneath the surface of this story. When technology makes it easy to quantify and optimize ourselves from banishing blemishes, to whittling our waistlines, even to shaving down our jaws where do we draw the line? What are the dangers for a society where a flawless face and body are promoted and possible? What are the real financial, physical, and emotional costs of beauty work in a culture that valorizes endless self-improvement and codes it as empowerment? <br> <br> With rich historical context and deep reporting, including hours of interviews with South Korean women, this is a complex, provocative look at the ways hustle culture has reached into the sinews of our bodies. It raises complicated questions about

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EAN

9780593473801

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

229 x 152 x 23 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin LLC US