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South Korea is becoming known as the plastic surgery capital of Asia but it is in China that its doctors are betting on for the next boom in the cosmetic surgery market. Chinese women in fashion hubs such as Shanghai see South Korean plastic surgeons as safer and more skilled than local doctors. They also want ears, chins and chests just like the South Korean stars popular in China who have gone under the knife in Seoul's best clinics. Beauty wannabes seek Korean surgeons because of the experience they are believed to have garnered at home. A survey showed 60 percent of South Korean women in their 20s had cosmetic surgery at least once. "I understand that more than 20 or 30 percent, or even a larger percentage of South Koreans have had plastic surgery. So their doctors should have a lot of experience compared to doctors from other regions or countries," said 42-year-old Grace Chen, who was waiting to see a doctor at a South Korean-run beauty clinic in Shanghai's downtown Luwan district. Chen is one of many Chinese patients who have been attracted to the Beauty China Medical Clinic, famed for its South Korean plastic surgeon Kim Byung-gun. Kim, who runs South Korea's largest plastic surgery hospital BK Clinic and is one of the country's most successful surgeons, envisaged a bonanza in China after noting that 40 Chinese women a month were flying to his Seoul clinic for cosmetic surgery. Now, he is trying to replicate his success by cracking the lucrative Chinese market. ...