A white British influencer announced to the world that he now identifies as Korean. Oli London’s announcement of his new identity and the dramatic surgeries he underwent in an effort to actualize it drew attacks on social media. His story has also raised serious questions as to the ethics of cosmetic surgery and consumer-driven medicine in the Western world.
“I identify as Korean. That’s just my culture, that’s my home country…. I also identify as Jimin, that’s my Korean name,” London said in a video posted on Twitter, which has already been viewed more than four million times. “This is something that you guys know if you’ve followed my journey for the last eight years. I’ve really struggled with identity issues, with who I am.”
London’s drive to change his identity led him to undergo 18 plastic surgeries over eight years, at a price of $200,000, rendering London unrecognizable to those who knew him growing up.
London spoke to the Washington Free Beacon in the wake of the revelation of his Korean identity. “I started to learn about Korea and love Korea when in 2013, I went there to teach English for a year,” London said. “Korea was so warm and welcoming; it was almost like a paradise. For me it was an ideal world. I just felt I wanted to be a part of that.”
Not content to merely join the millions of foreigners living in South Korea, London became convinced that he was born in the wrong body. “I do identify as Korean, I don’t identify as British. I feel like I should have been born in Korea because in that culture, everything from the mannerisms to the way they look is what I identify with,” London said.
Read more at Free Beacon.
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I identify as President Biden. Yesterday, I was on my way home to The White House and Security stopped me and didn’t let me get into my house. Filthy racists.
So what in the world is wrong with black face?? Is it racist to even ask this question?
The pink hair definitely helps him look korean.
Making fun of pink-haired nutcases is racist.
My victimhood is something I was BORN with, not like the others who’s victimhood is just a social construct…
Wow he must be really educated! Only to the educated is he sane! Be careful, don’t call him names lest you show how dumb you are!
Hop along coward proof society. The world can see there is a good intent with every slight chance you take for bad surgical outcomes.
When they change birth certificates because of a gender constant dysphoria quake in the binding being of a child who has yet not read 100 books, sampled 50 wines and even sold 20 different things in a store, he has or she has a world that envy can redesign by the cry of mimic candor and ruse.
It seems that some odd feelings regard this as maim-praise surgery and the idea seems that there is a bite to take but a war to wage. Who has time or finance to sample enough. Read a good dapper stadium of books and the family you keep might be your own design.
Surgery didn’t work. He doesn’t look Korean at all
When his hair naturally turns grey and rhen white, he’s going to rethink it. Koreans, like most Asians seem to stay black – or is it that they don’t live long! lol
Israel is also in Asia – that makes me Asian too!
He doesn’t really look Korean enough…………….Somebody grab a shovel and flatten his face.
Now it could consume kimchi with dog meat enjoying fullest impunity
There’s no reason to censor me. Are you that thin-skinned? Babies.