???꿔꺂??씙?猷곗뫀????????⑤뜤??/title><br/><meta name="generator" content="????????????筌????????щ쫫????꿔꺂??????5.0.0.18"><br/></head><br/><br/><body data-bgcolor="white" text="black" link="blue" vlink="purple" alink="red"><br/><p><img src="0RHAUO3R4BR8@namo.co.kr_雅?퍔瑗띰㎖??????繞????れ삀?節놁쒜??????jpg" data-width="200" data-height="200" data-border="0"></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS">On <br/>poster: Tough being Beautiful</font></span></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS">In <br/>man\'s hand: Income Deduction</font></span></p><br/><p> </p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;">Plastic Surgeons <br/>find it Tough being Illusive</span></b></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;">with DPM Kwon\'s <br/>Critique of Movie </span><i><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Tough being Beautiful</span></font></i></b></p><br/><p> </p><br/><p><i><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman">February 2, <br/>2007</font></span></i></p><br/><p> </p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Kwon <br/>Oh-Kyu, Minister of Finance and Economy and Deputy Prime Minister, managed to <br/>take time off his extremely busy schedule to see the comic flick </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">Tough being <br/>Beautiful</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;"> (loose translation), according to close sources. </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;">News <br/>of the DPM\'s movie excursion spread as he began recommending the movie to close <br/>friends, saying that it was "well made." Kwon was also heard to have said, <br/>"It only makes sense that plastic surgery spendings are income deductible."<br/></span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;">Kwon\'s <br/>comments are taken to reflect his views that people undergoing plastic surgery <br/>should be just as eligible for tax breaks as any other patient going under the <br/>knife, given that obesity and physical deformity have now come to be recognized <br/>as an illness. He believes that it also offers an efficient way of tracking <br/>income of doctors in the lucrative medical business of plastic surgery. </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;">As <br/>part of an effort to better identify income earned by an occupational segment <br/>dubbed "professionals," - namely, doctors, lawyers, and accountants <br/>- the MOFE <br/>announced that for the two years beginning December 2006, it will allow income <br/>deduction for money spent on medical treatment not covered by insurance, such <br/>as plastic surgery or the purchase of Oriental herbal medicine. When doctors <br/>started to take action against the MOFE decisions out of fear their income will <br/>be exposed to an uncomfortable level, the Korea Institute of Public Finance <br/>hosted a public hearing last month to lay down the legal grounds for allowing <br/>the deductions. </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;">Tough being Beautiful <br/></span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;">is about a 90-plus-kg young lady who successfully <br/>transforms herself into a beautiful singer with a "little" help of a diet <br/>and head-to-toe plastic surgery. It has drawn over 6 million movie-goers so <br/>far. </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt;"> </span></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Times New Roman"><i>This <br/>is an English translation of the Korean article that appeared on the February <br/>2, 2007 edition of Maeil Business News. Original article written by Reporter <br/>Lee Keun-Woo. </i></font></p><br/><p style="line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;"><font face="Arial"> </font></p><br/><p> </p><br/></body><br/><br/></html><br/>
On
poster: Tough being Beautiful
In
man\'s hand: Income Deduction
Plastic
Surgeons find it Tough being Illusive
With
DPM Kwon\'s Critique of Movie Tough being Beautiful
February
2, 2007
Kwon
Oh-Kyu, Minister of Finance and Economy and Deputy Prime Minister, managed to
take time off his extremely busy schedule to see the comic flick Tough being
Beautiful (loose translation), according to close sources.
News
of the DPM\'s movie excursion spread as he began recommending the movie to close
friends, saying that it was "well made." Kwon was also heard saying,
"It only makes sense that plastic surgery spendings are income deductible."
Kwon\'s
comments are taken to reflect his views that people undergoing plastic surgery
should be just as eligible for tax breaks as any other patient going under the
knife, given that obesity and physical deformity have now come to be recognized
as an illness. He believes that it also offers an efficient way of tracking
income of doctors in the lucrative medical business of plastic surgery.
As
part of an effort to better identify income earned by an occupational segment
dubbed "professionals," - namely, doctors, lawyers, and accountants
- the MOFE
announced that for the two years beginning December 2006, it will allow income
deduction for money spent on medical treatment not covered by insurance, such
as plastic surgery or the purchase of Oriental herbal medicine. When doctors
started to take action against the MOFE decisions out of fear their income will
be exposed to an uncomfortable level, the Korea Institute of Public Finance
hosted a public hearing last month to lay down the legal grounds for allowing
the deductions.
Tough being Beautiful
is about a 90-plus-kg young lady who successfully
transforms herself into a beautiful singer with a "little" help of a diet
and head-to-toe plastic surgery. It has drawn over 6 million movie-goers so
far.
This
is an English translation of the Korean article that appeared on the February
2, 2007 edition of Maeil Business News. Original article written by Reporter
Lee Keun-Woo.
