There is a story in The Arrival of the Goddess that I remember very clearly. The lady reported to the teacher's office on the first day of her transfer to this new high school. The dean came into the office and said to the woman, you are the first. It looks like the first place. This also reflects that Koreans always judge people by their appearances. When they see a good-looking person, they will naturally associate him with the good side, although the plot is slightly exaggerated. Ugly people may not be bullied by campus as shown in TV series, but it is not too much to pay great attention to face value, because in South Korea, companies will directly take appearance as a condition when recruiting employees. Many well-known companies even have very strict requirements on appearance, so Koreans pay more attention to appearance.
In the concept of Koreans, women must look good, because men will be happier when they marry good-looking women, and South Korea has no discrimination against people who have plastic surgery, because in their eyes, plastic surgery is a normal thing, no matter what means, as long as they can get a better appearance in the end. In the previous Korean drama "My ID is a Beauty in the South of the Yangtze River", the female host was also fat since she was a child. Moreover, their faces are average, so they are ridiculed by many people in the class. The ideas of these two plays are similar to some extent. More coincidentally, the leading men in both plays are played by cars.
But in China, we don't have such high requirements for appearance. People value your ability more. When your ability far exceeds a good-looking person, the company will give priority to you, but you should also pay attention to self-management at ordinary times. We cannot completely ignore our appearance, because appearance is not the first factor.