Members of a tattoist union maintain a protest calling for the legalization of tattooing by non-medical personnel in entrance of Daegu District Court docket, Could 9. Yonhap
By Lee Hae-rin
Eight out of 10 Koreans who’ve tattoos consider it’s applicable to get a tattoo at a store somewhat than a hospital, a survey confirmed, Sunday.
Solely 14.6 p.c stated it’s applicable to get tattooed at hospitals and clinics. As well as, greater than half of the respondents stated nonmedical personnel ought to be allowed to carry out tattoo procedures.
In response to the Korean well being and welfare ministry’s survey, greater than half of 1,685 folks with tattoos or semipermanent make-up agreed to permit nonmedical personnel to carry out the process.
The survey was carried out in August final yr with 500 individuals who have tattoos, 1,444 customers of semipermanent make-up, or beauty tattooing, and 259 who’ve skilled each procedures.
In Korea, tattooing is by legislation “an act of medical service” and tattooing by nonmedical personnel is topic to punishment.
Nevertheless, because the survey consequence confirmed 54.2 p.c of respondents stated that tattooing by nonmedical personnel ought to be allowed, primarily as a result of “most nonmedical personnel are already performing tattooing they usually want additional administration by being included into authorized institutionalization.”
The next main causes included “as a result of protected procedures are doable even when they don’t have doctor-level experience” (24.0 p.c), and “it’s tough to discover a hospital the place tattooing is feasible and since they need to get it from knowledgeable operator somewhat than a physician” (22.1 p.c).
About half of those that acquired beauty tattoos additionally stated that nonmedical personnel ought to be allowed to carry out the process.
In response to the well being ministry, there are about 13 million folks with tattoos and about 350,000 tattoo artists in Korea.
At present, nearly all of tattoo customers are discovered to have acquired the process at a nonmedical establishment. Within the case of tattoo procedures, 81 p.c of the respondents stated they’d acquired the process at a tattoo store, whereas 52.6 p.c stated they’d acquired the process at a magnificence facility.
In the meantime, only one.4 p.c of tattoos and 6.8 p.c of beauty tattoo customers went by means of the follow at medical establishments.
Even amongst these, most, or 42.9 p.c had the follow achieved by “nonmedical personnel” and solely 14.3 p.c had their tattoos achieved by medical doctors.
As well as, 81.6 p.c of the respondents stated it’s applicable to get a tattoo at a tattoo store, in distinction to solely 14.6 and three p.c who selected hospitals and wonder amenities, respectively.
Rep. Park Ju-min of the opposition Democratic Get together of Korea proposed a invoice final month that known as for the legalization of tattooing by tattoo artists.
Six comparable legislations had been additionally proposed within the twenty first Nationwide Meeting, however all had been discarded.
