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9 Jan – Recently, a Korean cosmetic-surgery clinic conducted a survey of Japanese patient visitors for the entire year of 2011 asking, "Who is your favourite Hallyu Star?" and it was revealed that KARA was the most preferred K-pop star among Japanese visitors.
According to Fastlinenews website, Yoon In-mo, the director of the hospital explained, "The most favoured Kpop star came out to be Park Gyu-ri, Nicole, Han Seung-yeon, Goo Ha-ra, and Kang Ji-young, which turned out to be the members of KARA. The following favourite stars after KARA were Jang Geun-suk, Bae Yong-jun, SNSD, Lee Byung-hun, and Jo In-sung."
"Through this survey, we were able to find out how the Japanese think about KARA's image. The KARA members all have cute and lovely faces. Some Japanese visitors brought photos of their favourite KARA member and asked to change their nose to look like them. They wish to look a little more like their favourite stars, even if it's just a nose job."
Kara's high popularity among the Japanese was also proven back on 19 November 2011 when Y-STAR's "Curious" conducted surveys with Japanese tourists to which 62 out of the 100 chose Kara as their favourite K-pop star.
Japanese Sankei Newspaper also ran an analysis about the girls and concluded that KARA's popularity is due to, "Their attractive face, balanced body line, and fancy dance." This sort of popularity has led KARA to earn 49.3 billion yen (KRW 73 billion) in Japan from CD and DVD sales in 2011 alone.
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