So-called “height growth clinics” have popped up all over South Korea that claim to help their clients’ children increase height. And their business is booming, to say the least.
Parents are enrolling their children in droves – and paying substantial fees to do so – for their children to go through a battery of height-increasing procedures that range from traditional, safe methods such as proper exercise to more questionable techniques such as acupuncture.
Some of the clinics require that the children participate from anywhere from one hour per day to up to three hours per day – up to six days per week.
It appears that South Korea has become an overwhelmingly “height conscious” nation in the last few years and the sentiments only get stronger with time. Professional matchmakers for busy professional singles have told shorter clients that their height (or lack of height) is a “detriment” to their success in finding a mate. And professional counselors have advised many of their shorter clients to look into questionable, height-faking schemes such as shoe lifts or – even worse – expensive and painful limb-lengthening surgery.
In short: height is becoming more important…and not just in South Korea. However, placing children in clinics that are really nothing more than “height boot camps” that put them through rigorous poking and prodding for years upon years of their lives (some start as young as age 4) is NOT the answer. There has to be some common sense involved.
Luckily, even for adults there are logical, sensible, effective, and – perhaps most importantly – safe answers to increase height naturally. And you don’t even have to go through the painful acupuncture needles.
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