I truly appreciate this. Thank you everyone.
I'm deciding to test it out in my country first. Lately, I've been thinking hard about my work and working on very exciting personal projects. The desire is fading.
That said, I might seriously consider a 3-3.5cm pure externals in the future. That needs about 6 months conservatively for consolidation (I will be slightly below 30, male, and I don't smoke, sleep well, exercise hard, perfect health). I will overpay for a good doctor, probably Donghoon. I think the procedure has higher risk for some complications I am very willing to accept (numbness, scarring, slower recovery in muscle), but lower risk for complications I find unacceptable (PE/DVT), etc. I want to do it because life is long and height pays benefits over the long term. Even at 0.5mm/day, lengthening will take 2 months with my conservative amounts. I think that I can work remotely after 2 months, since I work in tech. The true downtime then is really 2-3 months. Supposing the risk of death/disability is truly very low, and anaesthesia does not present cognitive side effects, and I vet Dr Lee by speaking to multiple ex patients, this is a viable plan in the future. Why only 3cm? Is it worth it? 3cm + lifts is 5cm. That's two inches. Yeah that's enough. And I have already been gifted a decent starting height, I would not want to fk with god and chance. This is NOT the place to be taking potentially life-destroying risk, at least because for me my height has not destroyed my life.