Lookit my skzwhat the fuck. why are they filming all the skz members getting endoscopies
this seems. uh. invasive
is this considered an ordinary thing to do in Korea?
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Coreo Jones (coreopsismajor)@skrr i have been just assuming it is associated with the rollout of guidelines for more frequent colonoscopy in South Korea, not gonna lie.
@coreo ohh that might be it. show skz doing it openly, good for encouraging other people to do it, demystify it, less of a big deal I guess??
@coreo hmm actually they said Seungmin wasn't getting an endoscopy in this episode because he had one recently.
speculating that he might have suggested this skzcode idea himself, if he became aware at that time of the need for raising public awareness etc
@skrr quite possibly and also I just was reminded that the stomach cancer rates in SK and other Asian countries are like 12 times what they are in predominantly white and Hispanic populations so this might have simply been upper endoscopy for that purpose. Either way, yes, I could see Seungmin suggesting this and them all going for it because they're awesome like that.
It absolutely has the "children's show segment about how going to the doctor isn't so scary" vibe only with 1000% more chaos.
@coreo oh I did not know that about stomach cancer rates. so it sounds like endoscopies *are* more likely to be part of a standard checkup in SK
@skrr I don't know how frequent they need to be but I presume there's more screening because of those rates. FYI the rate difference is because for whatever reasons H. pylori infection is far more prevalent in a number of countries in Asia and contributes to stomach cancer rates. They did look into links to kimchi because of Korean rates specifically but jury is out on that. Anyway I have big questions about consent and this entire episode concept, but I did enjoy a lot of this one.
@skrr I do see differences in whose experiences of which tests is getting shown, so I hope that means there was a good consent process going on behind the scenes and I'm trying real hard not to think about what if there was not.
@coreo I hope that they would exclude anything that revealed non-standard results, e.g. if someone actually has results suggesting stomach cancer.