With the bill's passage, South Korea will be the first developed country to require closed-circuit cameras to record surgical procedures.
Ms Lee, who has been holding a one-person protest in front of the parliament since January 2018, said her son was traumatised by bullying in high school for his prominent chin, and he was determined to undergo the 6.5 million won cosmetic surgery. "It is a medical crime when someone else - 'a ghost' - performs the surgery and not the surgeon hired without patient's consent," she said.
Up to now, such attempts had died due to lobbying by doctors, said Ms Lee who began an advocacy group for medical justice and patients' rights. "Residents have already expressed their intent not to apply to surgery or surgical departments if the CCTVs are installed in operating rooms, which will lead to a collapse of an essential part of South Korea's medical care."