Anthropometry makes it possible to analyze body proportions and identify body build and growth patterns.
The plastic surgeons who mostly. dealing with the trauma and deformity of face, need to have a good knowledge of the accurate anatomical morphology and biometrically acceptable proportion of face. So, the data earned by measuring the face and physique of so called Korean beauties are important tothe plastic surgeons.
What the authors call Korean beauties here are the representives of each district who have participated in the beauty contest of Korea.
The beauty, of course, is so subjective that we can scarsely insist that those beauty contestants are the representative of Korean beauty in every sense. But, if we need to hold some common view about beauty, we could be allowed to have a objective standard. Therefore, the authors believe that it is very useful to get some analytic report on the standard criterion of Korean beauties.
The authors have measured and studied the physique of the 125 beauty contestants selected from all the disricts from 1978 to 1981, and presented the mean, standard deviation by the tables (Here the measurements were performed by the method of "Martin").
Followings are the conclusion.
Part Ⅰ : The summary of data tables.
1. Table 1,2,3 showed the means and standard deviations of physiognomic facial height, forehead height, total jaw height, nasal height, nasal depth, philtrum length, upper lip height,lower lip height, physiognomic ear length, forehead breadth, bizygomatic breadth, inner canthal distance orbital cleft length, nasal breadth, bichelion breadth, physiognomic ear breadth, pronasal angle, nasolabial angle, stature, weight, length of upperlmb,height of anterior superior iliac spine, breadth.
2. Table 4 showed the means and standard deviations of various indices of Korean beauties.
Part Ⅱ: The conclusions drawn by the data.
1. The physiognomic facial height is divided in equal thirds by horizontal lines drawn through glabella and subnasale.
2. The physiognomic facial height is one ninth of stature, four ninth of upper limb length, five ninth of anterior superior iliac spine height.
3. The forehead breadth is almost same as bizygomatic breadth.
4. Orbital cleft length, inner canthal breadth, nasal breadth, nasal breadth are one fifth of bizygomatic breadth.
5. Nasal height is one fourth of physiognomic facial height and the nose is leptorrhine type. The pronasal angle and nasolabial angle are approximately 90 degree.
6. The physiognomic ear length is one third or physiognomic facial height and is twice of physiognomic ear breadth.
7. The philtrum is one third of bichelion breadth.
8. The upper limb length is four ninth of stature and anterior superior iliac spine height is five ninth of stature. The biacromial breadth is one fifth of stature.
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