After Plastic surgery in South Korea you now need CERTIFICATES to prove who they are

When people go under the knife for plastic surgery they hope to come out of the operation looking a bit different and a lot better.

They usually do not, however, anticipate looking so different that they are unrecognisable.

However, some of South Korea’s plastic surgeons are so talented that they are leaving their patients with an unexpected problem, it has been claimed. 

Plastic surgery in South Korea has become so successful that some overseas patients are struggling to get through passport control on their way home after the operations

Those who have flown in from abroad to have the operations are, in some cases, so transformed that they are struggling to get through passport control on the way home, Kotaku reports.

Hospitals have resorted to handing out ‘plastic surgery certificates’ to patients to enable them to get home.

These certificates are said to include the patient’s passport number, the name of the hospital they were treated at and the length of their visit to South Korea.

While hospitals have been aware of the problem for a number of years, it is said to be becoming an increasingly common issue.

In 2009, 23 Chinese women are said to have struggled to return to China from South Korea after undergoing surgery.

Women who've had plastic surgery in South Korea often end up with larger eyes, higher noses and thinner chins

The women were stopped at passport control because they were noted to have bigger eyes, higher noses and slimmer chins than were shown on their passports, China Daily reported.