Personally, this is my opinion. His friends did not go to Jung. From what I hear, he is one of the top surgeons for nose in Korea... and works with the worst revision cases and manages to fix the impossible sometimes. I can't imagine he would make such a mistake.
Anyway, any good doctor should know that you have to make the nose extra big... because when the internal scarring happens, it contracts like shrink wrap. If it looks good early on like what you said about kwell's friends... then when it shrinks, there can be some damaging results.
Goretex does not keep shrinking and shrinking. It just happens in the first few months, that's why noses seem really high at first with goretex. The aesthetic advantage of goretex is you can add a lot more height with it than you can with silicone, without risking extrusion, visibility.
I know a lot of this stuff, because I research a lot. I read a lot of medical studies, and online papers.
keenose, when you get the email back from Dr. Chuang, will you share it with us?

Thank you!
Dr. Chuang's stitching is really good also... super small and very neat. I've seen a lot of photos for stitching, and also compared to most docs, it is better. I remember vaguely him doing my epicanthy... it like lasted for 10 seconds... or so it seemed... and I felt his motions were so swift and steady... when I looked at it in the mirror afterward, I was really impressed by how small and even the stitches were... even how they were trimmed...