There's more to Natthew than just a pretty face

It was an opportunity for him to respond to persistent rumours that he’s addicted to cosmetic surgery, which have been rampant since Nat turned up looking radically changed since his days on the TrueVisions’ reality talent show.
As the rumour mill has it, Nat, known in South Korean as Natthew, was told by his record-label minders to not undergo more plastic surgery, but Nat said that’s not true.
“The real message is that my company told me that I didn’t need to do anything but then the rumours started that I had done so many things to my face that my company banned me from doing more. It’s kind of weird,” Nat told Sanook.com.
Nat attributes his face’s sharper V shape and other changes to weight loss.
“When I went to South Korea, I weighed 70 kilograms and now I weigh 62kg. They told me that singers there do not have to have big muscles and that I had to shed some weight, otherwise my chances would be slim,” he said without feeling the need to add “pun not intended”.
Nat, 25, said the plastic-surgery rumours used to bother him, but not anymore.
“I was upset at first, but now I’m kind of getting used to it,” Nat said. “I speak about it just because I don’t want people to assume that I’m addicted to plastic surgery.”
A reporter asked him point blank if there was anything he wanted to change about his face.
“Nothing,” he said. “But if I have a chance, I’d like to go for braces for my teeth so I can have an even greater smile.”

A real costume drama
Academic Pavin Chachavalpongpun, the outspoken self-exiled critic of the junta, was facing a social-media backlash recently when he turned his attention to a Burger King ad campaign that offered free chicken sandwiches to customers wearing traditional Thai costumes.
Pavin, associate professor at Kyoto University’s Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, gave a failing grade to the promotion, which features an image of a mother and daughter in old-fashioned Thai finery, wolfing down on burgers and fries. He shared the image on his 80,000-follower-strong Facebook page, noting that he thought it was “pretentious” to promote the wearing of traditional Thai garments while “indulging” in Western food.
While many fans shared Pavin’s wicked sense of irony, other followers, including the popular Drama Addict page, characterised the prof as “narrow-minded” and “disrespectful”.
The social-media kerfuffle happened late last month, but it has gained new momentum as Burger King ramps up its Songkran campaign, offering free Spicy Tender Grill sandwiches to customers in traditional Thai costume on Songkran Day, April 13. The offer, available at seven branches in Bangkok and one in Chiang Mai, also comes with a chance to win a lifetime of free meals.
Fans of Burger King are delighted. “Special thanks to Ajarn Pavin for giving us a chance to win free burgers,” said a posting on Pantip.com.