> It's apparently common for Koreans to make operations to widen their eyes to look more like anime characters.
I don’t think that’s the exact reason, and they’d probably get mad at you if you said they wanted to look like something Japanese.
Korea and China are developing an independent “anime-like aesthetic” based on MMOs and anime-like American PC games these days; eg Blue Archive and Genshin are a lot more technically advanced than what Japan’s famously poorly paid source of actual anime can produce.
I don’t think that’s the exact reason, and they’d probably get mad at you if you said they wanted to look like something Japanese.
Korea and China are developing an independent “anime-like aesthetic” based on MMOs and anime-like American PC games these days; eg Blue Archive and Genshin are a lot more technically advanced than what Japan’s famously poorly paid source of actual anime can produce.