The Hanguk Ilbo talks with Korean fashion model Jang Yun-ju. Now, I’m not really into the “fashion model” type—half-starved as they often are—but Jang is a legitimately beautiful woman with “a body from God.” Some great photos here. Another thing I like about her is that nobody will ever accuse her of cutting up her face to look white—as one Naver.com commenter put it, she’s got the body of a Western chick, but the face of a Korean country girl. There’s some controversy in the Naver.com comments as to whether that’s a good thing, however—perhaps unsurprisingly, many Koreans don’t like their models to look like they just got off the intercity bus from the jibang.
Supermodel Jang Yun-ju
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Maybe posting a ‘Not Worksafe’ warning next to that link of her photos would be a good idea.
She needs to fix her eyes and nose.
A model is supposed to look glamorous, not mundane or even cheap.
I don’t know, baduk – I think this evening’s Hubba Hubba™ award really should go to Jang Yun-ju. She’s a head-turner just as she is.
More than happy to have the Korean guys not give her a second glance. Thanks, fellas!
Guys, you’ve never heard of Photoshop? Take a good look at the 3rd picture again.
The unaltered face of Jang Yun-ju is naturally beautiful and a refreshing change from the parade of clones. If her vision and sense of smell are normal, then her eyes and nose do not need “fixing.”
Her body is first class, but her face certainly leaves much to be desired.
What’s not to like?
Wedge,
I’d rather that she looked like this (especially t 41!)
http://news.empas.com/show.tsp.....%AD+%7B%7D
An aside, perhaps, but why are newspapers interviewing fashion models, who in nearly all cases should be seen and not heard?
I think she has all the natural beauty of a true Korean woman. I am sorry for all the guys who cannot see that, especially her own countrymen.
Dude, put an NSFW tag on “Some great photos here” or a Boobie Alert or something
She does look like the average Korean woman–what a concept, using a real woman to model clothes….
Baduk says she looks mundane… I believe the carved up ones look mundane. I see them everywhere and am tired of that. You believe there is one standard of beauty? She better lose some weight because she’s not quite emaciated enough. Oh, and if she gets too much done at the chop-shop she’ll get raked like Yuni.
Honestly, you guys act like she’s a car and should think about some after market add-ons. Tell you what, you can go ahead and keep criticizing girls who won’t get their eyes slashed. I’ll go for the natural and diverse.
exkorling, I have had some experience in the world of fashion photograpy. Hate to break it to you, but modeling pictures are all photoshopped (compare the 3rd picture (a tall girl, cute, but nothing special) with the 2nd (Barbie)). In fashion photography, the waist lines are thinned, the thighs are trimmed, blemishes are removed, shadding is added to give weight to the breasts, feet and hands are retouched to proportion. You name it, they do it.
She looks great. She has that kind of natural beauty you seldom see in the surgery cases.
A recent issue of People featured Tyra Banks on the cover, blaring, “I’m still sexy at 167 lbs,” an ironic declaration of self-confidence since it looked like her waist, hips, and thighs had gotten a trim. I quit buying women’s mags years ago after tiring of the contradictory messages: articles on ‘big is beautiful’ and ’size 12 is average’ interlaced between tall, gorgeous, tanned women whose bodies still ‘needed’ touch-ups.
One of my favorite examples of photoshopping is the box of Nabisco crackers with Rachael Ray, who is holding a serving tray strategically placed at her waist to hide the scars of photoshop lipo on her famously rounded bottom half.
“Photoshop” lipo can leave scars? We are talking virtual surgery not real surgery here, right?
Yes, by “scars,” I meant telltale signs of photoshopping like uneven edges.
Well, there you go. All the guys who think she looks cheap and mundane can just use photoshop to whack-off every girl’s epicanthic folds and then you can go, “baaaaa”. “That girl is absolutely bleat.”
I’d bang her if she was married with a kid.
“She looks great. She has that kind of natural beauty you seldom see in the surgery cases.”
In the 3rd picture…in the first 2 it’s photoshop. Trust me. Like I said, I have spent my fare share of time at fashion and print ad photo shoots. Realism takes the backburner.
G-d bless ya Marmot! You are doing the Lords work.
Quick question- WTF is an “s라인”?
It’s a consonant. Twentieth letter in the alphabet.
The “S” the “S line”, what may be better known to you as the hourglass figure.
BTW, gas boilers have have been cosmetically altered to have “S lines” too.
I don’t get that S-line thing. A woman would be pretty strange looking if she had the silouette of an ‘S’, regardless of whether it’s an upper or lower case ‘S’.
Look at it as a profile of a curvaceous women rather than the the straight on view of the hourglass. The head and tail of the S and s are just too severe a curve. Hopefully the following S-like figure explains it betters than words, assuming what I typed keeps it’s shape after I hit Post Comment.
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Nope, didn’t keep its shape.
Good body. Face? Eh.
well, I guess “ampersand line” doesn’t exactly role off the tounge like we would like it too…
I always wondered about the “S-line” term too. Perhaps the “S” shape refers to a woman’s profile when see from a side view rather than the front? That is, the top ridge of an “S” could refer to a woman’s tits and the bottom ridge her ass?
“That is, the top ridge of an “S” could refer to a woman’s tits and the bottom ridge her ass?”
Yeah, I just came to this kind of reslization the other day on the subway. A female in profile, with the bosom as the upper portion of the S and the bum as the lower portion makes sense for something called an S-line.
Well, for Korean women in her natural state, it’s more like an “I-line”
Won Joon Choe is bang on in #30 – it’s a descriptive for a ‘well developed’ woman’s profile when viewed from her left. Incidentally, check her out in the TV ads for Style Water – ‘hourglass’ works, too.
One very cool thing about her is that while, like many models, she used to have the standard ‘famous guy’ boyfriend, for some time she’s been dating a typical not-so-much-cash-in-hand, thick-framed-glasses-wearing, nice but average-looking college student.
Thanks for the briefing on this curious bit of Konglish. I’ll just wait for an octothorpe line, myself.
“I’ll just wait for an octothorpe line, myself.”
I think that’s the term used for the model ajuma figure.
“One very cool thing about her is that while, like many models, she used to have the standard ‘famous guy’ boyfriend, for some time she’s been dating a typical not-so-much-cash-in-hand, thick-framed-glasses-wearing, nice but average-looking college student.”
Some people become wiser as they age.
i think the prevailing Korean view is that her face is not registering in the minds of Korean men. I think I can safely say the same for the girl in Grey’s Anatomy.
I mean, I’ve seen a lot better Korean girl faces, and I knew they were real, because I went to school with them, grew up with them.
Care to explain why non Koreans like those kind of faces?
i knew I am hated for double commenting, but I’m trying to keep it somewhat under control.
I mean, seriously, I think in South Korea, the girl in Grey’s may not even get a shot. Whereas in the US, she’s on one of the must watch tv shows and getting Hollywood movie deals. The South Korean actresses who actually paid to fix their faces must be wondering the same. I swear they are !
wjk, are you seriously asking this question? Well then, the answer is that you’re right in thinking that some Koreans criticize her face, yet she continues to rack up the modeling jobs, so how sincere or wide-ranging could the criticism be?
And, FWIW, I like ‘those’ kind of faces, along with the ‘other’ kinds, too. I like beauty – I try not to analyse that too much.
Here’s another look at that face.
Naver apparantly doesn’t like hotlinks, so try this.
wjk, the reason the woman in Grey’s Anatomy gets work is because she’s an excellent actress. She would never have gotten a chance here because of her appearance. Korea puts emphasis on form over function.
Same with the music business. Super Junior is not popular because they are talented. Hey, why didn’t they just make that boy(man)band twenty guys with frosted lettuce and denim jackets who can dance in unison? Why not forty?
I heard one Korean pop star say that she was putting out an album and she promised her fans that she would lose weight in the coming year. She’s in the music business, right?
I have to say that most of my musical preferences and the majority of people I know back in the States over thirteen prefer ugly people who can play an instrument and carry a tune, live, no lip-sync and little choreography.
wjk,
Actually, she has a fashion model’s face, she’s very photogenic. Basically, a person’s face may be attractive in real life (3D), but won’t look not as attractive on film because of the 2D polarizing effect. In other words, many fashion models are not that great looking in real life but look great on film and a people with a perfectly well proportioned face may be unfit to be fashion models because they only look good from one angle on film, which is kind of boring and very limiting for the photographer.
won’t look as attractive (sorry).
Darn, way too many mistakes in post #43 to correct them all.
People’s tastes are going to vary but in Korea people seem to get bent if a woman in the public’s eye is not within the bounds of their limited standards of beauty. You may disagree but I’ve seen women get trashed in print and on the internet for not meeting those standards. It’s not like in the States, it’s venomous.
I don’t think Sandra Oh is particularly attractive but she is wonderful in Grey’s Anatomy and if you’ve ever seen it, Sideways. I’ve never thought of Meryl Streep as ravishing yet her acting is unsurpassed.
She’s pretty hot.
I hope she doesn’t kill herself.
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