The Chosun Ilbo reports on the increasing number of foreign faces on Korean advertisements:
For many years, big Korean stars dominated commercials here, but their territory is increasingly being encroached upon by foreign models.
They come from Eastern Europe and Russia, from Latin and South America, from the U.S. and Thailand. Pundits say the recession has something to do with it, since passing on one of Korea’s notoriously expensive stars in favor of a pretty unknown from abroad can cut costs by as much as 80 percent. Their exotic appearance also appeals to customers.
One of the pricier imports, I should think, was SI swimsuit model Jessica Gomes, who should be declared an Australian national treasure if she hasn’t been already:
Won’t be seeing Kim Tae-hee or Jeong Ryeo-won doing THAT anytime soon.
UPDATE: God bless you, StKY. God bless you.
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I always thought it odd that Korean celebrities can dress like cheesey-slut/whores and shake their booty for a video or musical stage performance, yet be too embarrassed (or have a too-conservative manager) to allow them to do this kind of advertising. It always has to be a hot non-Korean chick who does the bikini or lingerie ads on home shopping and elsewhere; although, there is something to be said in favour of girls who can actually fill out a bikini sans padding…
Don’t open at work….
http://yeeeah.com/2008/11/03/ss-jessica-gomes-topless-in-gq-magazine/
You’re welcome.
Jessica Gomes,
Where can I buy what she is selling. I don’t care what it is, i just need where I can buy it to support the company that hires her.
Good Gawd.
Good Gawd.
“I always thought it odd that Korean celebrities can dress like cheesey-slut/whores and shake their booty for a video or musical stage performance, yet be too embarrassed (or have a too-conservative manager) to allow them to do this kind of advertising.”
They do the same with English…Would we have heard a guy in background shouting the Korean equivalent of “Shake that ass!” if she had been Korean? It’s been suggested by linguists that one of the reasons English is used in Korean pop music is to express female sexuality, which would be taboo in Korean.
In any case, the commercial still annoys the hell out of me, no matter how cute she may be.
The linked “shake that ass” video is not from an advert, but from a short film she did for cable station OnStyle.
Which I watched.
THIS would be an ad:
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=eTsbiARG2Ic
and another one:
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=vPWS_QgY4xQ&NR=1
And this is just her in bodypaint for your viewing enjoyment:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6d0le_si-swimsuit-body-painting-jessica-g_sport
Gosh, is it Christmas already?
And here I was expecting coal in my stocking…
Nice house blend (white and Chinese).
… and those are some fantastic boobs. A pin-up artist couldn’t of drawn a better pair. Are they real?
At least Kim Tae Hee has a smaller face!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0MVG-gP0lE
Wife says they’re real. I’m inclined to agree.
And while Kim Tae-hee may indeed have a smaller face, perfect boobs trump small face every time.
“… perfect boobs trump small face every time.”
No arguments from me. You can’t squeeze a face like you can squeeze a boob…
i never even knew what the fuck people were talking about when they said they liked a small face.
One day, I understood, when I was introduced to a friend’s friend.
This Korean girl had a humongous face.
I think it’s a Korean trait.
The face just stood out like some kind of giant ball.
I never even noticed this particular quality in whites, blacks, latinos, indians, etc.
this huge face was fairly unattractive, just by its size alone.
I decided not to talk to her after saying hello.
I’m a good Christian.
After seeing the bodypainting video, I’m inclined to disagree. Large breasts don’t stick straight out. They hang. Hers looked like they had underwire support, yet she was wearing only paint.
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What are “perfect boobs”? Jessica Gomes and Scarlett Johannsen have the hips to balance their large breasts, but those D-cups would look ridiculous on a petite frame. Besides, real big boobs sag over time until they droop like knee-length socks. A friend who used to work in a nursing home told me how she used to flop one elderly woman’s boobs up over her shoulder when she bathed her. (Visualize that, guys!!!)Plastic boobs aren’t any better. They stick straight out jarringly on an otherwise sagging body,and if you decide to have them taken out when you’re older, you’re stuck with loose skin and grandma boobs. I like small, perky ones best, for they hold their shape well.
if you notice, lot of Korean males have a big face, too.
so, ladys, if you don’t want children with big heads, I mean little girls with big heads, check out your Korean man’s face.
it’s in the genes.
Robert Koehler: “boobs trump small face every time.”
Indeed!
Sonagi
Why are you visualizing grannies when talking about boobs? You making me imagine the same thing, man. That’s gross! Are you perhaps part of the ‘Oldies but Goodies’ club?
When considering young babes this is what I always say: “Plastic or real, big boobs trump small boobs every time.”
I’d call myself an MILF, but I don’t have any kids.
Robert, Wangkon – boys if I might interject here on the issue of Jessica’s assets and how she stacks up against Kim Tae-Hee.
First off, Jessica Gomes is unquestionably smoking hot.
That said, in that video, less oil and even less “shake that ass” commentary would have gone some ways towards taking out the mild skank factor.
And speaking of shaking it, I much prefer Tae-Hee’s CYON advert which the Marmot approvingly posted a while back.
http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPVW6LA2rNs
Yeah, that one goes to the other extreme and suffers from the too cutesy factor. But if the opening seconds don’t give you an insta-tingle, you’re probably Andre Kim or Stephen Hawking.
Last point: Jessica vs. Tae-Hee – who would you choose?
For a fling, I’d go with Jessica and a 6-pack of Fosters on a Perth beach.
But the problem I’m seeing is that, while she is truly an amazing “house blend” of Chinese-Singaporean and Portuguese (too borrow a great term from Wangkon), those days I fear are numbered.
That gorgeous face will stay in Singapore, but you know that ass is pre-booked on a slow boat to Lisbon. (Sonagi might back me on that.)
Now of course, tastes differ. Whereas some look at Jennifer Lopez and see “bootylicious”; I see “wide load” (but then again, my tastes have admittedly gone completely native in that regard).
Which is why, in terms of perky preservation potential (or triple P, if you will), I gotta go with Tae-Hee.
If she’s young enough, wouldn’t they have some perk and firmness of their own? They’re not that huge.
Then you’re a SILF.
Sonagi wrote:
“What are “perfect boobs”? ”
Ummm…any boobs I can touch are perfect to me.
I can understand your love of small boobs. Right on.
I don’t descriminate though and love all boobs.
One thing I will never understand is how any guy who complains about “fake vs real” boobs. Who cares (besides gay dudes and chicks)? As long as you can slap ‘em around like a jello-filled pinata – thats awesome!
wjk:
“I think it’s a Korean trait.”
WELCOME TO KOREA!
This is the VERY first thing I noticed when I arrived here – lots of pumpkinheads/bucketheads! It’s like a Downs Syndrome factory over here!
Re: the whole fascination with boobs can be summed up with a quote from Jerry Seinfeld: “A legman? Why would I be a legman? I *have* legs.”
Sonagi,
What I would determine as the North American ideal (fantasy) of the attractive female body has changed surprisingly little since the first third of the 20th century to today.
I’d have to say that the best representations are WWII era pinups, you know the Earl MacPherson, Alberto Vargas, etc. drawings. The standard of long legs, generous hips, C or D cup breasts shaped like an oversized half tear drop is as attractive today as it was back then to the North American male. Today’s variation may have 5 to 10 less lbs.
Of course, 90% of women don’t possess this ideal and even the ones that do don’t always look like that, hence the reason why this woman has to be “drawn” or photographed in the proper angles and lighting (and airbrushed).
Myself? I don’t mind looking at this ideal image two dimensionally, but three dimensionally it’s not practical. They look good with less clothes and with high heels, but tend to look a little boxy and stocky with fall or winter clothing and normal shoes, at least in my opinion. A lot of it has to do with the fact that women of these proportions tend to have broad, man shoulders.
Asian women very seldom have bodies that fit the North American ideal. They of course have other strengths, but the ideal combination of C or D cups, long legs, hips, ass is seldom one of them. It seems as if God, in his eternal wisdom, curs… uh, I mean blessed, Korean women with perky B cups. There are only two types of Asian women that I’ve seen this with any regularity — southern Chinese and Mongolians.
A pin-up artist couldn’t of drawn a better pair. Are they real?
One more time, “could of” or “should of” are idiot locutions for uneducated tossers. “Couldn’t of” makes no grammatical sense whatsoever.
You do the math.
Don’t confuse him by starting on grammar and then switching to math!
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