Mirror Mirror with Amy Chang
·S1 E10
What is The New Beauty Standard? Breaking And Rethinking Eurocentric Beauty Standards Pt. 1 with Elise Hu
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Episode Description
Elise Hu is an American broadcast journalist, host of the TED Talks Daily podcast, and former NPR bureau chief in Seoul, South Korea. In this Expert Deep Dive, she joins Amy Chang to examine Eurocentric beauty standards, challenge assumptions about colonialism’s role in shaping beauty ideals in the East and around the world, and explore South Korea’s soft-power play in exporting its own unattainable beauty standards back to the West.