St. Von Krouch, 22, is a Canadian guy.
In 2019, at the age of 18, he passed the selection of a South Korean entertainment company and received an invitation to sign a trainee.
The Korean company said that it would sign a seven-year contract with him, and would pay his rent, transportation and living expenses, and if he performed well after training in South Korea, he would have the opportunity to make his debut in a group and enter the Korean entertainment industry...
As a KPOP fanatic, Kluci immediately signed a contract and flew from Canada to South Korea with his luggage in tow, fantasizing that he was about to debut in Korean entertainment and realize his musical dream.
But after coming to Korea, Krouch found that entering Korean entertainment was out of reach for him...
Business ability aside, his deep blonde hair, blue eyes, and angular square chin alone make him incompatible with the Korean faces around him.
Coupled with a strong body of 1.83 meters and 82 kilograms, it is difficult for him to appear harmoniously in the same picture with other Korean artists.
In the blink of an eye, 3 years have passed, and Croucci has been repeatedly frustrated because the contours of his facial features are too three-dimensional, and there are few job opportunities, and there is not even a representative work...
He auditioned many times, but was eliminated by the director and producer on the grounds of "inappropriate appearance", and over time, he began to lose confidence in his appearance, and while becoming inferior, his aesthetics also changed dramatically.
Every time he looked in the mirror, Cruci could pick out a bunch of faults for his face - the jaw angle was too wide, the chin was too square, the eyes were not picky enough, the eyebrows were too thick, the nose was too rough, etc...
And the beauty that is highly sought after in the entertainment industry - slender peach blossom eyes, delicate raised eyebrows, soft jawline and small V face, gradually changed his definition of beauty.
Last year, Crooch managed to get a job opportunity to play an international student in the Korean drama "Pretty Lies", one of the famous and surnamed protagonists, and at the end of this year, the drama will be broadcast on the US streaming network. If all goes well, this will be a great opportunity for Cruci to become popular...
But if missed, the "old" Croucci will say goodbye to his dream when the contract expires and be forced to leave South Korea...
In order to seize this opportunity, Krouch simply used BTS's Park Jimin as a template and went for a series of plastic surgery.
Last year, he underwent 12 cosmetic surgeries...
In these 12 times, there are high-risk procedures such as contouring surgery, as well as minor surgeries such as rhinoplasty and lip reduction.
In order to get closer to Korean faces, Croochi also did eye lifts and eyebrow lifts, which are quite "excellence".
Even during the filming period from June to December, Krugci worked and took time to complete plastic surgery projects one after another. According to his agent, the total cost of these procedures was as high as $220,000.
In November last year, he implanted a prosthesis on his chin, and finally got the coveted V-shaped face, completely "transforming" from European and American faces.
But it was after this surgery that Krucci's jaw became infected, and the wound was red, swollen and painful...
Because the wound was inside the mouth and had no effect on the appearance for the time being, Krouch continued to work while receiving anti-inflammatory injections, but the infection did not improve until last Saturday night, when he had to go to the hospital for surgery to remove the chin prosthesis.
As a result, during the operation, Krugci was intubated due to surgical complications, and unfortunately died in the hospital last Sunday morning, never to wake up...
After the news of Krucci's death was made public, in addition to some "may he rest in peace" comments, many people expressed their incomprehension - did not understand why he risked more than 10 surgeries in a year, let alone why he went to great lengths to "makeover"...
"So Kpoppers are trying to make themselves look Westerners, with blonde hair.... He tried (by plastic surgery) to look like them? ”
"That's awesome, so this white boy from Canada wanted to look Korean and then spent a quarter of $1 million to go to Korea for plastic surgery... I'm sure this is a completely new operation for surgeons. ”
"Why would they make a white Canadian a Korean-Asian and have him undergo these cosmetic surgeries, it makes no sense..."
But the entertainment industry is quite cruel existence, every dreamer like Crooch, years of polishing, thousands of rejections, in order to get a chance to step towards the bright star road, the success rate of the dream is less than 1 in 10 million.
Under the ruthless elimination system, they may have lost their mental health long ago...
In the end, in order to win a job opportunity, he tried to succumb to a certain aesthetic, and even disregarded the safety of his life for this, which led to the tragedy...