And Nomad, the 3rd one from the end in the peach bathing costume; her pooper looks okay to me. Maybe because much of her costume is stuck in her crack.

I much prefer the very minor beauty contests hosted here, something along the likes of Miss University International. More skin and less talent. And lots of those touching let’s-crowbar-our-culture-on-the-foreigner-so-we-can-feel-good moments. (Wipes tear from eye.)

I remember the beauties being introduced.

Miss Angola.
Miss Korea!
Miss Belgium.
Miss Korea!
Miss Canada.
Miss Korea!
yada yada

Ended up that half the contestants were a Miss Korea. Guess that just like every family is a yangban family, every family has a Miss Korea.

And finally, why read Antti’s blog when you can get insightful sociological analysis like this from Scarsdale’s very own Naomi Kim?

This gives me only more inspiration to blog about the articles of Hankyoreh’s great Son Seok-chun, now that the kind of competitions worthy the space of my blog, Anti-Miss-Korea or “Ideal Child” (uryanga) no more take place.

By the way, your “tabloid crap” shouldn’t miss the divorces of Seol Kyeong-gu and Oh Hyeon-gyeong (of the “Miss Oh video” fame). Mrs Oh was reportedly “shocked” when she found out that her entrepreneur husband, currently in jail for fraud, had been using her name to buy stocks, had mortgaged her parents’ house for a loan, and had two children from two previous marriages.

I wonder if women line up like that for most beauty pageants? Great photograph.

How many other women line up, strip down and display the goods in an effort to win the privilege of returning to a small room pulsating with bad lights and music to dance and pour bottles of grossly overpriced whiskey down their dancing naked bodies into the mouths of leering, grasping buffoons?