First and foremost, we have Korea’s gift to Sunday’s Miss Universe pageant, the lovely Kim Ju-hee, putting a bikini to good use. You’ll want to note the pic with Miss India.
I feel compelled to warn you, however, that Miss Kim is an very, very well-built young lady, and those with heart trouble may wish to give the link a pass.
Then we have this offering from New York Magazine on the city’s annual Miss Korea New York pageant. The magazine was good enough to ask the charming young ladies as to why they would want to win such a prestigious competition. Take 24-year-old Jennifer Maeng of Astoria, for example:
Why do you want to win?
At my restaurant, I spend a lot of time explaining what Korean culture is like. If I had the Miss Korea title, people would trust my information more.
So much for needing a Korean Studies degree. Mijin Park from the City of Brotherly Love, on the other “hand,” offered perhaps the most “touching” response:
Why do you want to win?
Audrey Hepburn said you should use one hand to help yourself and the other hand to help others.
And finally, why read Antti’s blog when you can get insightful sociological analysis like this from Scarsdale’s very own Naomi Kim?
What’s Korea like?
People are still very—I don’t want to say closed-minded. But they won’t make out at the movies.
Of course, a photo tells a thousand words:
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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?
Some great quotes there.
Mijin Park’s quite the looker.
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.
What’s the guy in the suit doing, looking for a chick with an ass?
Thanks for including a picture of Miss India. The Indian ladies are lovely–until they fatten up.
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.
BTW, the judge’s too-low gaze. They’re enormous. Her ankles, that is.
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.
Jennifer Maeng gets more facetime than any Korean in NYC. She’s hands down the prettiest and nicest. Her restaurant is a good, East Village-ized Korean place that’s always packed.
Naomi’s got the right idea. Do it for the race, jawohl!
To keep things from getting too dry and serious, it’s nice to see these girls and boobs stories every so often (even if I can’t look at them at work). Keep up the great work Marmot!
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