Now, I would have never figured Hyeon Yeong (i.e., the one with the voice) as a Maxim Korea cover girl. Yet she was, apparently. And not a bad one, I must admit.
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I agree. I’ve always thought that she was quite a looker. In her latest TV commercial, she shows off her nice set of gams.
I might also point out that she’s a nice Catholic girl, too.
She’s also quite a talented comedic actress too. I loved her in Married to the Mafia 2, where she had a very small role in the beginning as the quirky blind date of the lead character.
Her best role, however, was as the thoroughly wacked out and off-the-wall high school teacher in Legend of Seven Cutter. Her signature facial expressions were to die for.
Robert, thanks for the information.
Another Catholic girl is the glamorous, I mean well-endowed, woman about whom you so often post about, Miss Han Chae Young.
I’ve observed that there is a higher percentage of attractive Korean girls at Korean Catholic churches than amomng the general population.
Sexiest voice ever
Tell me I didn’t just read that.
She went to DePaul, after all.
It’s interesting how every comment here about an otherwise talented and wonderful Korean actress can only focus on the T&A aspect of her beauty to the exception of everything else.
Is this b/c caucasians in general do not view her — and other Korean women like her — as a real person, but rather as an object, or do you just not know anything about her or her career?
Probably because we’re a bunch of men who like to praise the physical attributes of comely Korean entertainers. But interesting that you should bring the issue of race into it.
For what it’s worth, I don’t like her as an actress. Can’t get past the voice.
Nahhh, see, when I talk about American actresses or the model du jour in Maxim with my co-workers and friends back in Chicago, it’ll be like, “Oh, Jennifer Aniston looks totally hot in that picture,” with ensuing comments like “She was awesome in The BreakUp,” for example, or, “she was a total slut in Rumor Has it.”
However, for caucasian expats who rant about Korean actresses, stars, etc., they for sure can see the physical beauty, which of course any idiot can, however, they rarely can associate the face with corresponding movies, music, careers, or anything else of substance. (Of course, you seem to be the exception.)
Now, this could be due to cultural or language barriers, which is highly doubtful for most long-time Korea hands, or more likely, due to a real lack of interest in things beyond the purely physical, hence the automatic impulse to objectify. Just my 2 cents.
Wow, talk about a broad generalization… heh heh heh.
Fair enough, H. Kim.
So Korean guys actually care about the careers of Francine Prieto or Maria Sharapova?
She’s artificial.
Anyway, she looks good and innocent with the large fake pupils, you know, the circle lenses. Bittersome.
#12:
Careers? Who gives a f*** about their careers. I just wanna know what they would look like sitting on my face.
Perless H. Kim was being facetious with that last point.
Anyway, it seems odd to propose that we Caucasoids are to be condemned for concerning ourselves with the “T&A” of someone who promotes herself in girly mags, rather than her “career” and cinematic oeuvre.
#15:
Not really. My point is that most of you guys probably had no idea who Hyeon-yeong is beyond her having a great body and face. (In the same way that I have little idea of who Prieta is, nor do I know *that* much about Sharaprova.) To each their own, I guess.
Now that’s the spirit.
H.Kim wrote:
“Is this b/c caucasians in general do not view her — and other Korean women like her — as a real person, but rather as an object, or do you just not know anything about her or her career?”
Okay, now that I’ve stopped rolling my eyes, I can type a response. Men are visual and have been ogling women since about the time we shed most of our body hair and started walking upright. The guy checking out my tits in the supermarket yesterday didn’t know anything about me or my career, and that’s fine with me.
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“She’s artificial.
Anyway, she looks good and innocent with the large fake pupils, you know, the circle lenses. Bittersome.”
I hear ya, sister. We ladies are visual, too, but we seem to zero in on different features.
What meaty discussions full of philosophical import you have, H. How unlike the white man!
You realize, of course, that Jennifer Aniston is an actress, don’t you? You and the Chicago Boys know as much about Jennifer Aniston from watching Rumor Has It as I do about about Whats-Her-Face from not reading the Korean edition of Maxim. Namely, that they both make some atrocious career choices.
Just ridiculous. Unless you’re sitting around the basement with Roger Ebert over there in Chicago, I can’t imagine you or your buddies being able to discuss anything substantive taken from Rumor Has It. (I haven’t seen it. Is Jennifer Aniston in her underwear a lot in this one?)
I should introduce you to my sister, H. She has been known to date Korean-Americans plus she has a really big rack.
Well, *I* know her from her co-hosting stint on the entertainment show Section TV. She’s too artificially “cute” in her mannerisms on that show for my taste.
By the way, was this the major post you said you were going to put up last night?
“…you said you were going to put up…” = “…Robert said he was going to put up…”
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To be fair to her, Hyeon Yeong’s artificial cuteness seems to be mainly tongue-in-cheek as a part of her comedic schtick then any attempt to seriously put on airs, but it still doesn’t appeal to me.
I fully agree with H. Kim. I became a fan of Jeon Do-yeon after seeing her work in “Happy End”.
Photoshop/Flickr work took too long. Plus it was a long day at work and my head was killing me. It WILL be up by tonight. I promise.
Your assumptions continue to make you look foolish.
A quick look at any Korean commenters’ comments on Korean news websites when a story features Hyun Yong will show just such an emphasis on “T&A” (which is fostered by Ms. Hyun herself, who takes every opportunity to tell the world she is the representative “S-line” figure) as well as the added bonus of criticizing her singing severely.
What is the basis of your ASSumption, Hank?
Do I have to talk to your relatives in order to understand her career?
Dogbertt proves my point yet again that your average expat can’t tell sh** from shinola when it comes to knowing and truly appreciating talented Korean actresses and celebrities like Hyeon-yeong. Too bad. (While they may *all* look the same to you, they aren’t.)
If I might ask, since it might help understand your point of view, do you speak or read Korean?
Hank, I do not need a Korean or a kyopo to interpret for me the nuances of Korean entertainment. I live here, I watch Korean music TV occasionally, I know her songs, I’ve seen her appearances in the media, I read a freakin’ interview with her in the Metro a couple of days ago.
I know just as much about her as any average Korean/kyopo and you are quite wrong for assuming otherwise.
And I’ll say again that if you look at Koreans’ comments about her on Korean websites, you will not find unadulterated appreciation of her talent, but find a fair number of comments about her body.
Han Chae Young is Catholic? She could certainly “make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.”
By the way, Hank, I am one “expat” who has not expressed an opinion on her talent or shape one way or the other. Your English reading skills are in need of refreshing.
#19:
Oh really? I thought she was a professional pooper scooper. FYI, Hyeon-yeong is also an accomplished actress in her own right.
#28:
I can read and speak Korean at basically the same level of a Korean six-year-old, which means I know enough Korean to play with kids, but will never work as a translator. Yipee!
#31:
Of course you haven’t, and that’s b/c you haven’t demonstrated in the slightest that you even know one thing about her.
I on the other hand can and do on a daily basis speak Korean at the level of a person in a professional occupation.
Hence, I don’t need to rely on the opinion of a kyopo and/or his relatives to interpret Korean society. But don’t let that stop you keep trying.
Incidentally, Hank, I do know about her and I think she’s a fine entertainer. My wife, in fact, is a big fan.
Are you related to Hyun Yong or something? You seem to be taking this very personally.
her voice is just too irritating for me… i wonder if she is faking it to stand out.
#33:
Good for you dogbertt, I’m very happy that you *think* you can communicate at such a high level and that you *feel* your Korean is better than mine (as if I really care).
Hate to burst your bubble though, but despite your attempts to make yourself seem like a highly sought after commodity, you instead strike me as an unjustified braggart and misfit with a narcicisstic personaity disorder.
Recognizing that you and I are different, you shouldn’t feel any need at all to compare your Korean language ability with mine, nor would I compare myself with you, since my needs and conditions are completely different than yours.
That being said, your continued arrogance, open contempt, sneering asides and general antipathy toward Korean Americans and Gyopos that you’ve demonstrated on this and many other threads, has led me to the inevitable conclusion that you seem to be seething in jealousy and envy toward us.
Could this be b/c the Korean public in general will never accept a Hangul-mimicking white boy as one of their own, or is this b/c you secretly wish you were Korean yourself?
Whatever your case may be, dogbertt, I hope you find peace and fulfillment in yourself w/o feeling the need to constantly compare yourself with every Gyopo you happen upon.
I don’t know where this hostility comes from.
Are you sure the young lady is not a relative of yours?
Despite her voice, which I think is not her real voice, she does have the coveted S-line, so no surprise that she should appear as a Maxim cover girl.
Of course as Robert stated she isn’t much of an actress and mercifully didn’t release a follow up to her first single “Nuna Nuna”(Big sister, Big sister)
But, we are more interested in her physical attributes, aren’t we?
H. Kim, Why is everything race and nastiness with you? You have no more rights vis-a-vis this young lady than any of us here.
Jennifer Aniston? Hot?
I’ve been in Korea too long to find Hyeon-yeong attractive.
Okay, now that I’ve stopped rolling my eyes, I can type a response. Men are visual and have been ogling women since about the time we shed most of our body hair and started walking upright. The guy checking out my tits in the supermarket yesterday didn’t know anything about me or my career, and that’s fine with me.
I am glad you brought this up, Sonagi.
Because it reminds me of something that has always perplexed me. When women get checked out by some random guy like in a supermarket many dont like it and they call it “leering”. But in your case you didnt seem to mind and actually welcomed it.
What accounts for the difference?
I dunno. We’re all individuals and may react similarly or differently to the same stimuli.
Easy. Be Handsome. Be Attractive. And Don’t Be Unattractive.
As a younger guy I was ashamed to leer at women and averted my sexual gaze; I thought it was rude and disrespectful to them. Then I found out that I am handsome, or maybe I grew into it. One of my more-handsome friends from law school (boy, was he handsome!) was an incorrigible wink-and-smiler, and I told him I thought it was wrong for him to look at women that way. I was fresh out of the Navy, and all its sexual-harassment seminars — while he had lived in France. And Italy. He patiently explained to me that when you’re handsome it’s not “leering”, it’s “checking them out” — and women like it. If you’re handsome.
Now as a handsome man, I stroll the sidewalk and up and down escalators, making direct eye contact, smiling, and “checking out” every mildly attractive woman who passes by. Sometimes I wink and blow kisses. They really do like it, and if I can make someone’s day that way, so much the better.
In a couple of years, after I turn 40, I think I am going to start getting “handsy”.
Maybe I have been in Korea too long too. I find the girl who cuts my hair more attractive. This chic is just average to me. Then again……I may have a different opinion if she sat on my face. Not really…..No,…. Yes,….. Yes I would feel differently!
Annoying as hell no talent hack in my opinion. She has the voice and personality made for magazines.
If she passed me on the street I don’t think that I would look twice.
@Brendon #42:
Looks like you took a humorous break from that other thread.
# 42, If you’re handsome, why don’t you use your own photo as a gravatar?