A growing problem: South Koreas obsession with height and hormones

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SEOUL – For two years, Ms Kathy Yoo helped her daughter with two hormone injections each evening.

The girl put up with the pain in her wish to grow taller, ideally to 1.65m the average height of female K-pop stars.

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