The difference in standards for women between North and South Korea show how subjective beauty really is.
Here is the latest installment of The Cut's 100 Years of Beauty series, Korea.
While each video in the series has spoken to the ever-evolving idea of what ideal beauty looks like, the Korean beauty evolution is particularly interesting.
Once the video hits the 1950s, the standards of women's beauty are not only compared by decade, but also by region. From then on, the changes in Korean beauty become more diverse.
The video begins with the single standard of beauty: elaborate, ornamented hairstyles with glowing skin.
Skipping ahead to the 1940s, women fussed less over their hair and began focusing on red lips and bolder eyebrows.
