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A growing problem: South Korea’s obsession with height and hormones
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A child getting a body check at TallnFit, a growth centre with customised programmes helping short children to grow taller.
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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.
