Korean modeling student Kang Seung-hyun has been named Ford Supermodel of the World 2008. She’s the first Asian to take the award. Coincidentally, in 2004, a Kenyan model with the name of “Ajuma” competed in the contest.
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No offense to the winner intended, but I don’t think she’d draw a second glance from me on the streets of Seoul. She has that untraditional beauty that is the trend in modelling in the West. Doesn’t fly with this viewer.
On a side note, liked the names “Ajuma” and “Dell’Orifice” in the article.
Agree with whitey.
Miss Kang has about as fresh a face — which the contest claims it’s looking for — as the “ajumma” that elbowed me in the ribs yesterday at the supermarket.
Even here in the sticks of Gangwon province, there are fresher-looking faces (not to mention more shapely bodies and less horrific skinniness) than this walking chopstick has.
Also liked the (un)fortunately-named Dell’Orifice. Possibly explains how she’s been in modeling for 62 years, as the article claims. She’s obviously got more talents than just being a pretty face…
I’d hit it.
Beggars cant be choosers. A Ford Supermodel will have to do.
With supermodels, face is actually secondary. She needs to be tall and skinny with tiny boobies so you can strut that catwalk and make next season’s Prada, Chanel and Louis Vuitton fashion look good.
Supermodels sell clothes, not Maxim magazines.
But she’s a Ford supermodel. Doesn’t that mean she’s going to be hitting the open road with the wind in her hair 24/7? In that case, long flowing hair and an ability to drive would be paramount.
She’s kind of cute, but way too skinny.
Tyra Banks did OK, though.
#4: “With supermodels, face is actually secondary. She needs to be tall and skinny with tiny boobies so you can strut that catwalk and make next season’s Prada, Chanel and Louis Vuitton fashion look good.
Supermodels sell clothes, not Maxim magazines.”
Well, duh, your commentary’s as newsworthy as a piece of gum stuck to your shoe, but that doesn’t mean that she or any of the other models in the competition with her is actually pretty.
And that doesn’t mean that #3 or anyone else on here won’t hit it, either. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it?
However, what’s sad is that it’s just another example of where a part of the “establishment”, whatever that entails, has cast as their mold of the “perfect” female specimen another 40-kilo, rail-thin, disproportionately built, bulimic anorexic (and, no, those of you readers out there who always feel the need to assert your voluminous knowledge on EVERYTHING need not have to point out that there is a difference between the two disorders), thus giving (young) women who are perfectly healthy, yet not rail-thin, complexes about their bodies, thereby causing them to feel they need to go on some unnecessary diet in order be exemplary.
Making it worse this time is that the winner is from a country where excessive thinness in females, obsessive dieting by females, and constant nagging from all those close to said females is already at an unhealthy level. Her winning is only going to serve to ratchet up this excessive/obsessive nagging and peer pressure even more.
Though I do realise beauty is all in the eye of the beholder, what we don’t need, whether it be here or some other country, is more praying mantis-looking chicks who are unhealthily skinny.
I mean, look at her photos. She’s sick. Her pelvis looks like one of those Guatemalan sinkholes that swallows entire villages. Were net kim actually to be in (her) like flynn, I’d worry that he’d be barfed up later in some fit of bulimic orgasmia.
This shouldn’t be news, here in this blog village or anywhere else. All it does is just perpetuate the image of beauty that is sick and twisted and way too thin.
I’d like to nominate the following for quote of the week in the hole:
“Were net kim actually to be in (her) like flynn, I’d worry that he’d be barfed up later in some fit of bulimic orgasmia.”
Look at the other side of the coin dissidentdave, maybe the local girls will look at this girl and realize that one doesn’t need large amounts of facial butchering/reconstruction to be considered beautiful… Ok ok, fat chance of that. I don’t think any of them will think that. It’s winter break for goodness sakes… Prime time to get chopped up.
Looks ok to me.
bleh.
She must have a really good walk because that skeleton-like body of hers reminds me of a praying mantis without a butt.
Thinner is a winner. You can gave the fatties. Appears her face hasn’t been augmented where Caucasian features sit unnaturally on an Asian skull–Morgan Fairchild’s nose just looks so wrong on . Ain’t flat chested either.
But whitey is right; better can be easily found.
I’m withholding judgment til I see some video. Is there any?
Oh yeah, thin women. The really gaunt ones with the ribs showing. I especially like the ones who are losing tooth enamel. Feed em a big meal at a nice restaurant, let em eat dessert. Then tell them you don’t want to see them again because they’re getting too fat. It’s almost Pavlovian. They’ll puke right there at the table.
It’s not just the women but the men who are taking advice about women’s appearance from gay fashion designers. We’ve gotten to the point where the crypt-keeper look is fashionable. Oh, sorry. The crypt-keeper with a sculpted face and implants.
Best line so far on this thread.
Get that woman a sandwich before she passes out!
Ugh. Absolutely no muscle tone at all. She does indeed look like the perfect model of a sedentary lifestyle with a diet low in nutrients (and calories).
Related to this, I’ve never seen a single woman (and there’s only Korean women) at my gym get close to exerting herself, much less actually producing a single drop of sweat. I understand the “have to look like a high-class Yangban - so not the slightest hint of muscle tone” on an intellectual level, but the human side of me will never understand why so many women drop $100/month and spend hours a week for something they can get for free by walking to the subway stop and back.
However, I don’t think it used to be like this. Many/most older Korean women don’t hesitate to exert themselves or break a sweat.
Was it the massive economic improvement in the last few decades that has caused (nearly) all Korean women (and men ?) to believe that female muscles are ugly ?
That girl needs some bacon cheeseburgers. Now.
You’re looking for a video - click on the MBC News link
http://news.naver.com/main/rea.....0000059129
Check out the weird unnatural pose at the 19 second mark… she’s able to contort her skinny frame in some strange positions.
I’m sure somebody’s touched up on this before but it’s a confirmation that Westerners and Koreans sometimes have very diverging views on what Asian beauty is.
I used to have a gf who my white friends would just give me “eh-she’s-alright” type of response while my Korean friends thought she was super hot. When I’d go out to bars, my white friends would hit on Asian girls, frankly (IMHO), looked like they fell off the Empire State Bldg and then got beat with an ugly stick for weeks on end. (and they’d go gaga while I’m chuckling inside). Different strokes for different folks, but it seems to me our tastes our sooooo different.
IMHO, Koreans tend to view Koreans with western features as beautiful while whites tend to think Koreans with “chinky” features as beautiful. Am I wrong here folks? Then again, my white friends who lived in Asia or socialized with Asians in the States share some common thoughts with me but even then, they’ll sometimes point to some weird looking girl and pop a boner. Very interesting to me…
Pardon me, Ford, but I believe the term “supermodel” is already abused in Korea…now this! Have you noticed that every model in Korea is a “supermodel?” What does supermodel mean, anyway? One web definition is:
“a highly-paid elite fashion model who usually has a worldwide reputation and often a background in haute couture and commercial modeling.”
Oh well…
I don’t think “chinky” is even a word, but it surely is not something we should be seeing here again.
Isn’t winning that competition somewhat equivalent to winning a reality TV show? I mean, if you look at how things have turned out for the models who have won it since 1981, few seem to have had a modeling career that isn’t a footnote to winning the contest and only two seem to have been able to break into entertainment, thus making them ’supermodels’ (Monika Schnarre (B-movies and Saturday morning sitcoms for kids) and Tricia Helfer (the hot blonde on Battlestar Galactica)).
Has a banned commenter reincarnated as NYTom?
uh…i think she would garner at least a second glance while waiting in line at the dunkin donuts. as for a third, i’d probably be more distracted by the prospect of trying out a green-tea custard bismark, which she could use a few more of, at the very least to stuff her bra with.
bet yeah she is hot.
Ladies who gag on anything larger than a baby carrot tend to be little fun. I do tend to think that y’all are just too harsh on the ladies here though…
Re: #19 “Check out the weird unnatural pose at the 19 second mark”
It took me a good ten(10) seconds, literally, to figure out which was her front side and which was her back. Sad…very sad.
Paradox: she’s a model, part of a sophisticated marketing apparatus. She is meant to drive consumption. She herself is meant to be consumed. We are consuming her now, with each Google-logged click on her links.
Yet her main product is a body that consumes too little, her main service the willpower to abstain.
#23 A fairly common if somewhat un-PC slang adjective.
Re: #30
Common among whom ?
I can’t recall ever hearing a fellow ex-pat or Korean use adjective or anything that would translate to that adjective in Korea.
correction:
… use that adjective …
Fit Magazine has published a term for physiques like hers: “skinny fat”, ie. the appearance of being slim without any underlying cardiovascular or muscular structure to support physical health.
http://www.urbandictionary.com.....skinny-fat
More about “skinny fat”:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=3161171
http://joshsgarage.typepad.com.....y_fat.html