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I feel so bad for his patients. He makes them look uncanny, like skin walkers.

“you look ai generated” is gonna be the next future insult

Personally, I think aging is beautiful. People complain about smile lines, and crows feet.. but in my eyes those smile lines means you lived happily. You expressed yourself in so many ways!

14:52 For the leg procedure, I watched an official documentary (arte) about it. The documentary was talking about plastic surgery in China and precisely those leg procedures. Doctors cut the muscles in the leg (calf, don't remember the exact muscle), few weeks after those muscles gonna "shrink" and become really thin, they are at high risk of losing the functionalities of their legs. There are many cases, where young Chinese girls were not aware of that (the surgeons didn't list the risk), now most of them can barely walk like before, and many complications like constant pain and others. It's really sad, people have healthy bodies but beauty trends mess up body and mind. I'm Asian, when I was in middle school I wanted to have plastic surgery to become pretty like people in the media. Now I accepted who I am and I'm also grateful to be healthy. You know it's better to lose a little bit of weight or gain muscles. Also, basic skin/hair care helps a lot. Choose also the right clothes, no need to buy a ton of them. Just choose wisely a piece of clothing that suits your body and can be matched with another type of clothes. I hope some young people gonna read my comment. I want to add that beauty perception is messed up with social media (filter, heavy makeup, light, angle). You know when you get to know someone, the first impression is not gonna be "Wow he/she is so handsome/pretty)" especially when he/she is average. But the more you know the person and spend time with them, the more beauty and charm gonna grow. You'll see others and yourself so beautifully and uniquely. Some unique features make the character very strong like you'll never forget them. I hope you understand, learn yourself a bit more, and spend time with people. You're gonna see everything in a better view.

I feel so bad for the older guy who now looks like the smiling dream guy. It makes me genuinely scared looking at his face I can only imagine how his family and himself feel it’s really upsetting

I really feel bad for those people. From going to human to looking kinda humanlike

just a small note, but they aren’t using terms like “brother” and “sister” to bait people into trusting them, lol, they’re just terms used to address people in both china and korea (alongside many other countries), even if they aren’t your actual siblings. thought i’d put that out there.

As someone who works in plastic surgery, their results actually look very well done. The photos you are referring to as looking “botched or scary” are immediately after, it can 3-6 months for a patient’s face to look normal after a face lift and with all plastic surgeries, the swelling could take a year to go down. Nobody looks good immediately after, it’s good for the potential patients to see how they will look the first month or so and i am sure if they were to include photos from 3 months later, the patient would look incredible.

The fact that this man has made real people look uncanny valley is terrifying on its own

Just a Chinese language note: him calling patients "brother" or "sister" is probably a direct translation from Chinese where referring to unrelated people as "brother" or "sister" is a way to show respect/endearment. It's not some manipulation tactic to make people "trust him", it's just a linguistic difference.

This is called investigation journalism and it's lacking these days. Good job my friend. Fantastic work

You are very kind human. Everyone is commenting these poor people, they're all over the internet and it's very heartbreaking and here you are shifting the focus to the real problem, these "surgeons".

Imagine getting turned into something straight from the mandela catalogue

Some of those after pictures of his patients are actually terrifying. Some uncanny valley type stuff. It’s so sad that many people can’t cope with their aging and would rather look like Sophia the robot.

My Mom went on a trip to China to stay with her mother for health reasons. However during her stay she secretly underwent a facelift with Dr. Kim. To our astonishment, my father, sister, and I were shocked when we saw her because she looked completely differen. Even my mom's pet dog was in shock, and it took him a few days to recognize her. Unfortunately, after the surgery, her appearance started to look somewhat deformed she regreted it and she contacted Dr Kim but he blocked her idk why but it seems that Dr Kim doesn't want to Get involved into any of this

Imagine flying to a new country, getting your face permanently altered, and then not being able to return home because your face no longer matches your passport or any other form of photo I.D.

There is an alternate universe where Tuv flew out and got a plastic surgery from Dr. Kim.

This is so scary. Imagine going to their clinic assuming you are going to get a facelift to your standards but in the end you get one that makes you look like… well that. Its honestly just really sad and i feel bad for the people they are using as like “prototypes” and promotion. Thanks so much tuv for bringing awareness and looking into this!❤️

these are legitimately some of the most terrifying images i've ever seen, and i had unsupervised internet access as a 12 year old

Imagine your parent gets home with a new face and everyone including them have to deal with it for the rest of your lives..

this reminds me of when Stephanie Soo talked about 'ghost doctors' in Korea where a plastic surgery clinic would have a main doctor/ celebrity doctor on social media that is essentially the face of the clinic that you can book an interview with. these interviews are usually expensive because youre meeting with the celebrity plastic surgeon. the celebrity surgeon then takes you to the operating room and as soon as youre under anaesthesia a different (usually amateur) doctor walks in and does the surgery. then you wake up, none the wiser. she explained it better than i did but im just wondering if 'ghost doctors' are a thing in China and if this is a case of that..

great video and awesome research! you are a source for another youtuber relating to this topic; I am happy I saved your video for my long commute. The bus ride to work got so much better

I have so much respect for your take on self acceptance/appreciation . You have excellent moral grounding for your age as well as wisdom . Just wanted to share with you some positivity , well researched video and your message within it is really mature 🩶

The man in the beginning looked so friendly and sweet. How are people allowed to do this to others I’ll never understand. Moreover, who the hell told them they needed the surgery😕

Dr. Kim isn't a surgeon, he's a butcher. His victims remind me of what The Joker did to people in Gotham or that one Korean drama/horror movie that had people getting facial surgery when they came of age but the lead character wasn't encouraged to do it so she went to an underground surgeon and it turned out horribly. My heart goes out to every single one of his victims. And this is why my doctors tell me more to avoid any physician who is on social media, especially TikTok.

These aren't fully healed. I don't know why he'd post partially healed work, maybe ragebait gets more engagement, but you can't determine if they're botched by this point, the patients should be checked 4-6 weeks later. I'd chalk this up to the internet drawing conclusions about a line of work they don't really understand.

Imagine flying out to get this surgery and having airport security trying to verify your identity. Omg.

I’ve worked in facial plastics for years. Clients look very swollen and like they’ve gone through a wind tunnel after surgery. It takes awhile for the face to “relax”. I’d love to see the incision lines and what they look like 4-6 weeks later.

i've noticed that in some asian languages, people will refer to someone else as brother or sister as a term of endearment/in place of boy or girl. i went to a hot pot restaurant with a sign in the unisex restroom that said something like "if today is your time of the month and you need help, ask the little sister at the front desk." it just meant the young woman working the entrance.

Russian youtuber "кэшзло" stole your video!

Came from James Welsh’s channel! Love the vid and how in depth you went with it. Excited to watch the next one!

A friend of mine got her nose done and at first it looked so... weird. After it healed it looked so much better, so I really hope a lot of these people are just still super puffy and that when they heal they'll look a bit better. That's why on some plastic surgeon's websites they post an after, and then a like 6 weeks after kind of thing.

by the way, dr kim isnt trying to "lie" about his patients being his siblings, its simply just a mistranslation. in korean, we often use the term oppa, or hyung (brother) or unnie and noona which means sister. its just the language barrier lol

You have to realize that what they consider beautiful in China is very different from the US . For what it is, I didn't think it was botched and especially since the photos are just 7 days after surgery. I really would love to see what they look like after 6 months after ,thats how long it takes to completely heal. Being that's kinda what's comcideted beauty in China I really dont think they're are so botched. Its the swelling in the eyes that makes it look so strange. My biggest issue is the young people getting full face lifts, not so much the older people. Myself I would never get any plastic surgery, but to each their own.

Oh my god after that first surgery after picture I genuinely felt sick and scared. That was horrifying. I’m so sorry to those people who got these surgeries. This has to be so scary and sad and devastating to deal with for the rest of your life.

I’m 51 years old,. No matter how old I get, I would never get a facelift, especially if it’s a “discount” surgery. Getting older is actually a privilege, but social media has convinced us anyone 30 years old or older is “old” and needs to do something about it.

It’s actually normal for a deep plane facelift to look that swollen/“uncanny” after a week but i cant wrap my head around why they’d share a week post op and not 3-6 months post op 😭

the thumbnail gave me a literal heart attack and it’s night

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR A VIDEO ABOUT THIS !

It’s actually good that they show the pictures before they fully healed because people who don’t take surgery seriously need to see how painful it looks

The first guy makes me want to cry every single time I see his face. That sweet face before should have never been changed❤

Like Red Hot Chili Peppers said “Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging”

Surgeon is actually extremely talented. They look significantly younger and they look like that because it can take up to 6 months for swelling and pain to subside.

it just sucks that we as a society see aging as a bad thing.. unfortunately, i don't think it'll ever resolve. (edit: not saying that's a bad thing! but i feel like there's an issue with people in general just having an obsession with it. it's okay to want to look youthful!!)

As a 40yo person, I can certainly understand why aging individuals consider facial reconstruction surgery. Our faces definitely change as we age and this can be a very challenging and confronting experience. The fact is, we will all age and change physically and in all ways. Acceptance may ultimately be the most Beneficial solution ❤

guys it takes time to heal and what he’s posting is showing them right after surgery and they do have other videos showing there final results and they look WAYYYY better💀and people get surgery at many ages and surgery is to make people looks different . People might want it bad just because the surgery came out good in their eyes. I understand people are beautiful just the way they are and they definitely are but many are insecure and try surgery and are happy with the results because they want to fit the standards in Asia. I know we are all different people but if many want to looks so, then they can just like americans like kim kardashian and others.

They aren’t botched surgeries. They are aggressive facelifts done to their standards of beauty. Botched implies the surgery failed or the person was disfigured and are unhappy with the outcome. The only issue I can see is the god awful scar line on the forehead vs behind the hairline as is the industry standard.

Hey, so while there is plenty to be said about the oddity of this and the weird formats of the tiktoks,I need to point out something. A large majority of those "uncanny" surgery results are from very early in recovery. Facial surgery takes long time to recover from fully. Sometimes 6 months to a year for the swelling to go down entirely. Early on the results are going to look uncanny and odd as your body is still healing. There is much to be said about the necessity of these surgeries, I really feel like this is a big point to point out.

About the "my sister" thing, it's not about him wanting people to trust him more. He's Chinese, and terms like "brother" or "sister" are commonly used to talk about people who are not necessarily related to you. Either way, I feel so sorry for his patients. The results are horrid and I wish his license was just revoked at this point. Also, it's interesting that he's most likely Chinese, but he is using a Korean last name. As we all know, SK has been catching up to Brazil as the capital of plastic surgery, and he might try to capitalize on that by using a Korean name.

Found you through Dr. Gary and subbed! Love your delivery!❤️

I actually really respect and appreciate that you're one of the few darker content channels that actually DOES investigate and put in the work. So many of these channels claim to have conducted "investigations", when all they've really done is read some tiktok comments and maybe skimmed through a wikipedia article. Their videos are as close to investigations as buzzfeed listicles are to journalism. ((I also really appreciate the empathetic and mature way you spoke about the people who have actually had these surgeries, rather than just clowning on them for how they look, or calling them stupid.))

The “brother sister” thing isn’t a manipulation tool, that’s just a cultural thing a LOT of cultures do that translates odd to americans. We refer to everyone in our generation at sis/bro the generation above as aunt/uncle and the gen above that as gma/gpa. And the “they look like a little girl” part, that’s literally every cosmetic surgury caption from every nation and language. To us that sounds weird(it is weird) but the weird things we say, we just don’t find as weird

0:20 gods this looks like one of those uncanny police sketches… I feel bad this man looked so friendly before

I just stumbled across your video and I’ve never seen your channel before but you are so sweet. I’m only wants the first few minutes away. Keep up the good work. I am a new subscriber now.

I've been checking some videos covering this topic, most of them in Spanish. Seeing this one really ticked my curiosity so I started watching it and I got really impressed by this guy's Spanish and accent. It sounds really really good!

There's a reason they're not posting "fully-healed" results. I mean, some of those peoples are locals which they can easily contact. There *is* one healed result on their page but keep in mind that's 1/93. Perhaps they know it'll get engagement? But then that would be bad marketing because if they're posting odd-looking surgeries, they would be getting bad press which is already happening in real-time. Some people say that they'll look just fine after being fully healed but if that's the case, then why would a professional plastic surgeon, Dr. Youn, clearly not agree with how they look right after surgery? Out of all people, you'd think he knows best about all stages.

it looks like their faces were literally chopped in half and sewn back together, jesus christ it looks so bad. i can’t even imagine what’s going through their loved ones’ minds when they return home and reveal their new faces for the first time. they look unrecognizable.

bro your come up was crazy. seeing you get 2 mil views and i used to watch you at 40k… keep the grind on bro!

A very good research video, thank you! 🙏

the picture of that man keeps haunting me😭😭😭

I get extremely sad looking at the first man.. it genuinely breaks my heart because he looks like such a kind man, just probably insecure.. he had such a kind looking face. I cried when I saw him..

Im glad this video is getting traction. Tuv deserves it.

Love this series of gonzo investigative journalism! Looking good TUV!! No surgeries needed!

its absolutely f u c k e d how this shit can happen and u still have a medical license

Unfortunately many plastic surgeons use that "manipulation" tactic you where speaking about. They name all of these facial imperfections in the name of symmetry and signs of aging to make you feel as if you NEED the surgery. Once upon a time I went for a consultation to get lip filler. That's it. Next thing you know the Doctor starts commenting on my jawline, undereyes, and cheeks and how they could all use filler to make me more symmetrical. Ive heard of many women experiencing this as well when they have a consultation. I like my face shape, but that appointment left me feeling very insecure.

11:45 that is actually terrifying omg

this video was such a good deep-dive and your cat is a great bonus💙! If I'm not wrong I remember that in the H3 podcast they managed to find where dr. Kim's profile picture is from and it was literally the profile picture of another unrelated proper Korean doctor!

He never shows the result after a couple months, which facelifts can make you look like an alien for upwards of a year before they completely heal. Most swelling goes down after around 2 weeks to a month, but you can still look odd. I’d imagine after having your face sliced off and stretched, you’d look a bit odd for a while.

I recently had a complicated hip surgery (just got back home on Friday), but before I got it, I got three opinions. I don’t know for sure that these people didn’t get second or third opinions, but I would guess they didn’t. For anyone getting a surgery soon, PLEASE get additional opinions and ask them to show you testimonies from patients who have had the same or similar procedures. DO YOUR RESEARCH! Even simple surgeries have risk, and it’s important to go over the pros and cons. If your surgeon seems reluctant to answer any of your questions, find someone else.

Just another malicious scheme to prey on people’s insecurities.

In South Korea they had real cases where the clinic use 'ghost surgeon'. In Asia the Dr profile that are handsome or nice looking they tend to get more female clientele but they are not the one doing the surgery. My aunty had her eyes done when she was 50yo.. she looks weird in real life. Her eyelids are always puffy and abnormal looking.

I couldn’t imagine actually paying to look so scary like genuinely. I feel bad for these people

I'm Chinese, just to clarify something you mentioned about the captions: About the weird " my sister " captions, in Chinese we commonly refer to older women as jiejie (big sister) as a formality, and it's especially used if you're trying to satisfy a client because it kind of means a compliment as well

Their bodies are still old. It's a shame how people don't love themselves.

what i find extremely sad, is that in the end the clients just all look the same somehow? like all the characteristic trades that made these people unique are just gone.

how people like celebrities can even get these procedures, is crazy. I can't find a single example if it not looking fake and obvious, it's never looked good.

It's sad how people feel the need to have surgeries that don't make them look human to feel better, I'd rather age gracefully with wrinkles everywhere than do this to myself

So much integrity in ur delivery good job

Tysm 4 making this video

3:00 I'm pretty sure that "little sister" thing is just because of different cultures lol. For example in China it's normal to call people that aren't related to you "big brother/sister" "little sister/brother" "aunt/uncle" etc same in Japanese

i asked my mom about what she thought since she’s a nurse and parametric, and she first thought they were face. she said the stitches looked poorly done to the point she didn’t even believe they were real. I also noticed the patients faces are sooo pale after the surgery. i’m not sure how expected that is but it was off putting to see them go from a medium skin tone to completely white like a ghost

HAVENT WATCHED BUT I LOVE YOU TUV IVE LITERALLY BEEN DIGGING ABT THIS CREEPY STUFF AWHILE YESTERDAY AND NOW I XOME ACROSS THIS

And the surgeon know they dead ass wrong too, made them folks look like animatronics 😒

FYI 15:17 the surgey done on the legs actually prevents them from ever having the ability to run again.

I’m sure they have ghost doctors that work with them. Which is totally illegal, but a common practice. They’ll have one plastic surgeon having three facelift going on at the same time but other doctors will come in and work on the patient.

Love the Graduation and Earl carpets

bro you blew tf yo been here since atleast before 100k

Makes me grateful my mom had a good face lift doctor. She got herself one because she looked way wrinkly for a 60 year old due to stress from my abusive dad. It felt kinda symbolic.

No horror movie can scare me as much as knowing people do this to themselves.

Keep up the good work, tuv. Scary that people would go through this. Here’s a virtual soda/water/drinking preference for you to enjoy other internet people. I want you to take time to try take care of yourself after seeing videos like this. :D

pls do a follow up video if you can 🙏🏻 i feel like this ended on a cliffhanger there’s still so much unanswered. my heart goes out to these patients

6:05 Hey Tuv. The reason you might not always get results when reverse searching an image is because they might have gotten it from a social media site, like Twitter, Facebook, etc. The bots that crawl the web looking for an image don't actually search social media sites due to various privacy reasons, and so it's entirely possible he got the image from some random doctor on Facebook, maybe even Linkedin, without it being picked up by the bot.

They don’t even look human anymore. I feel awful for the first man, he doesn’t at all look like a sentient being capable of emotion. This is so incredibly sad. I have a huge grudge towards these “surgeons” which completely capitalize off of these older peoples insecurities of aging. In reality, having these surgeries will make them age 50 times Akers’s worse than they thought they already were.

Mojo licking the microphone was so cute! 🥰

well put together

At 63, I'm one of the older people you're talking about. Thanks for the encouragement!❤ I don't want or need any plastic surgery. I take great care of my skin, eat healthfully, drink a lot of water, use sunscreen, don't smoke etc. etc. I put in the time and effort it takes to look and feel as well as I can. Because of this, I'm happy with the way I look. The results that you showed are absolutely gruesome.😮 I can't understand why someone would be happy looking like a marionette. Nope, I'll keep my face just as it is. Very interesting video though. I enjoy seeing what's going on in the "beauty" sphere.

This reminds me of a similar plastic surgery cult-like squad in my native country. The head of the squad is Emelian Braude, a guy with no degree in surgery who thinks it is okay to work in an unsanitary environment. He has followers that he teaches surgery, not being a certified surgeon himself. The worst part? He got away with it.

People who got that surgery probably hates their life right now, because their horrible, botched faces are posted and spread like wildfire in social media.

I`m one of the older people. "You are beautiful the way you are, you don`t need a facelift". Thank you so much for saying this. :-) I was frustrated with mit lower cheeks and hooded eyes, but after i saw this Dr.Kim-Frankenstein-Facelifts, i love myself again. The majority of these People looked much better before. The facelift eliminated their charisma, their inner beauty.