4 Positive Tattoo Ideas in South Korea
people who enjoy getting tattoos for a variety of reasons
Today, we're going to talk about the positive tattoo ideas. The public's rejection of tattoos, which has been considered a "symbol" of gangsters in the past, seems to be gradually weakening socially in South Korea. Especially, as popular K-POP celebrities get tattoos a lot, young people in their 20s and 30s are showing great interest in tattoos.
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Recently, more and more people are getting tattoos for "healing," not just "cool" or "individuality." Some people engraved fingerprints on their father's resident registration card to commemorate their father or engraved a yellow ribbon on their body to not forget the Ferry Sewol disaster. Singer Zico showed off her love for her mother by engraving her mother's face on her left chest when she was young.
More and more people are engraving photos or names of dogs on their wrists or backs to soothe the sadness of losing their pets. Cover-up tattoos, which add tattoos on scars, are also popular. It ranges from cesarean sections, appendicitis, breast cancer surgery marks to burn marks.
Below, we introduce a more detailed positive tattoo ideas of Korean tattoos.
(Doran) ดอกทิวลิปนุ่มนวลและกุหลาบโมบิอุสและทิวลิปประกาย (2EA)
$7.80
$12.00
Small flower tattoo, Rose & Tulip mini tattoo
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(Doran) ดอกทิวลิปนุ่มนวลและกุหลาบโมบิอุสและทิวลิปประกาย (2EA)
$7.80
$12.00
Small flower tattoo, Rose & Tulip mini tattoo … read more
instagram Tattooist Yeon
1. Cover up tattoo that touches the pain of self-injury
Tattooist Yeon drew a flower on the customers' wrist with a tattoo without saying a word, "Please cover the scar." She knew it was a wound made by the customers oneself, but she didn't ask back. It was because she knew a little bit about the pain that the person was suffering, and she felt why they wanted to cover it, and how courageous it was.
instagram Tattooist Yeon
So why did Yeon choose flowers for a tattoo for cover-up of self-injury wounds? She thinks flowers are so pretty, and no matter what they look like, flowers are all meaningful in their existence, and they are just beautiful. So it is very precious that it is meaningful in itself, and she replied that flowers seem to be soft beings, but they believe that they have power in them.
The wounds of self-injury healed over time, but people with scars of memory, who still have scars, are constantly visiting Yeon's tattoo studio.
(242) หนานชุน (爛春) – ฤดูใบไม้ผลิแสนอร่าม (2EA)
$6.50
$10.00
Various abstract style of butterfly and black flower tattoo … read more
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2. Pet tattoo
In 2021, it is known that there are about 15 million "pet fams" (people who consider pets as family members) who raise pets in Korea. In other words, one in four Koreans lives with their pets. More and more people are not simply considering pets as animals that live together, but share much of their daily lives like family members.
It is basic to create a pet SNS account and post pictures or videos. Many people customize and use various goods such as mobile phone cases, grip talk, and T-shirts that contain the appearance of pets. Tattooing the appearance of dogs and cats on the body is also spreading like a trend.
instagram #pettattoo
Tattooing is a way to express oneself among the Gen Z these days. It is to engrave their birth flower, child's name, and so on. When expressing the important value of life through tattoos, memories with pets, which are "family living together" and "partners of life," are also becoming important materials.
As such, pet tattoos are drawing attention in that they commemorate dogs or cats that went to heaven first or express affection as a family living together. So this is also in the spotlight as one of the positive tattoo ideas for Korea.
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3. Cover up tattoo with Surgical scars
Cover-up tattoos are also one of the positive tattoo ideas because of a great help for people with a complex due to large scars from surgery.
K-pop star Hyolyn has a big cross tattoo on her stomach. When she was a baby, she had a large cross-shaped scar on her belly, so she had a cover tattoo. It was a scar from two open surgeries as a child and that became her biggest complex. She was born in revenge and was immediately placed in an incubator and diagnosed with childhood cancer. It was a large scar that occurred a year after laparotomy for biliary obstruction, and when the operation was performed again for intussusception.
instagram @xhyolynx
As she began her singing career, I thought about covering the scar shape. Since the shape of the scar is a cross, I decided to get a tattoo in that shape. After she got a tattoo, she lost her complex, gained confidence, and felt her mindset changed.
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4. Scalp Tattoo for hair loss
In addition to scars caused by diseases or accidents, hair loss, which is a great stress for many people, can be completely supplemented by semi-permanent procedures or tattoos. In particular, hairline tattoos are gaining huge popularity for men in their 30s and 40s who have hair loss that turns their forehead into an M-shape.
Usually, hair loss people avoid taking pictures because their faces look big, but if they don't look closely after getting a scalp tattoo, they don't show that they've been treated at all, so they take a lot of pictures, and they're very satisfied because they look younger and have a clean image.
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Men in their 30s and 40s account for 80% of the treatment customers, and the point is to naturally perform the procedure while drawing each strand like a hair.
Scalp procedures are also frequently visited by professional men such as executives, lawyers, and doctors in their 50s or older, and have the advantage of improving their impression and looking young, creating confidence and increasing the trust of people around them.
