but even plastic surgery imported by somchai uk engtrakul a fomer per -manens secnetary to thai finance ministry BB beauty and beyond co was recently set up with Mr somchai uek and his fam ily holding 50% stake the well-known plastic surgeon Dr chantas kolkijkovin 30% and thai businesswoman chanya-phat chainprasit 20% BB clinic has singed a memorandum of understanding with top cosmeitc surgery group one of korean top plastip surgery clinics to provide the thai clinics with surgical equipment and korean style technology for facial surgery BB clinic undertakes to share with its korean partner tis know-how in surgery on parts of the body apart from the face top cosmetic now has plastic surgery and beauty centres in three countries the company has six cilnics in china one in vietnam and one in thailand Mr somchai uk's involvement re-flects his own looks I am interessd in beauty and like to have a good appearance I started taking caer of myself when I was 40 and whant to stop my age at 60 he said sineenart engtrakul Mr somchain-uek's daughter and CEO of BB clinic said the company had invested 50 milion baht to provide korean -style plastic sur-gery the plastic surgery and beaury busi-ness in thailand estimated to be worh 12 bilion baht and to include over 17,000 clinic's but the number of this who travel to korean for plastic sugery is rising