My id is gangnam beauty webtoon series#

She desires to live a 'normal' life and does not like standing out. Im Soo-hyang as Kang Mi-rae ДЄ timid and insecure girl who has low self-esteem due to her 'ugly' appearance.The pressure of being a 'pretty girl' begins to get to her and, worse, those who can see through her surgery ridicule her and tag her as the ' Gangnam plastic surgery monster' and as Mi-rae's tries to recover her self-esteem as she gets to know her classmate, and former schoolmate in middle school, Do Kyung-seok ( Cha Eun-woo) who is quite cold but very affectionate towards his sister Do Kyung-hee ( Kim Ji-min). Her 'rebirth' seems successful at first, but as her life at the university unfolds, her plan starts to backfire. Kang Mi-rae ( Im Soo-hyang) decides to get plastic surgery after years of being bullied because of her looks.

It garnered praise for its portrayal of issues affecting South Korean society, particularly on its superficial beauty standards and discrimination on the basis of physical appearance.

My id is gangnam beauty webtoon series#

The series aired on JTBC from July 27 to September 15, 2018, every Friday and Saturday at 23:00 ( KST). The title of the webtoon and of the TV series alludes to the Korean word gangnammiin ( Gangnam beauty), a derogatory term in South Korea for people who are attractive but look as if they went through a number of plastic surgeries for a pretty face, a hot body or both. Based on the webtoon of the same name published in 2016 by Naver WEBTOON, it centers on the life of a college student who went under cosmetic surgery to evade derision from her bullies, yet her decision seems to backfire as her peers ridicule her artificial look. My ID is Gangnam Beauty) is a 2018 South Korean television series starring Im Soo-hyang, Cha Eun-woo, Jo Woo-ri and Kwak Dong-yeon. Gangnam Beauty ( Korean: л‚ґ м•„мќґл””лЉ” к°•л‚ЁлЇёмќё Hanja: л‚ґ м•„мќґл””лЉ” ж±џеЌ—зѕЋдєє RR: Nae Aidineun Gangnammiin lit.