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[GoldMember]

The On Style Channel is all excited about Project Runway Season 4, because it has a contestant who was born in Korea (Seoul). She has lived in the US for a long time.
The name she uses is Victorya Hong. Don't know what her real name is.
Already we have the Nationalistic advertising. Photo of one of the judges has transcribed above his photo "I love Korea" and another "Korea is Style".
Why can't a person of Korean extraction achieve something, without the media here getting all excited and resorting to jingoism.

[Newbie]

Perhaps the single most disgusting (pitiful?) aspect of this place.

[Yaya]

Here is her bio. She seems smart but nothing special, though she is cute.

http://www.bravotv.com/Project_Runway/season/4/bios/index.php?cat=designer&p=victorya

[shaunew]

Crap my wife will be watching and will be excited about the Korean. I want the gay looking one to win.

[endo]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[shaunew]

[huffdaddy]

[4 months left]

Covered over a month ago in the Korean papers. Cute?? Really?? Looks adjum-ish to me.

The Korean American Who Conquered 'Project Runway'

A Korean-American woman has attracted the limelight on NBC�s �Project Runway 4.� Nominated for the Emmy Awards, �Project Runway� is a reality show where promising designers compete to show their originality and talent for fashion design.
Victorya Hong beat out thousands of candidates to make a shortlist of 15 who will go to the finals. In episode 1, she was picked as one of the top three performers, and she won episode 2, where actor Sarah Jessica Parker appeared as a judge. The dress that brought her the victory trophy is to go on sale under Parker�s own brand Bitten, generating enthusiastic fans.

Hong spoke to the Chosun Ilbo by e-mail. �When I saw Parker coming through the door, I was so nervous that I could feel beads of sweat on my back,� she said. �As everybody knows, she is the fashion icon of the time. And I got to talk with her and found that she is smart and knows a lot about fashion.� As for the winning dress, �I heard that some thousands of pieces had already reached the shops, so I ran to the shop. I saw it with my own eyes, and I just couldn�t believe it!�

The 34-year-old designer moved to the U.S. at the age of three. After graduating from the University of Chicago, she left for France with only US$200 and landed a job as a journalist. �I lived in Paris for three years and then moved to Brussels and also worked as a journalist there for three years. During that time, I learned several languages, met various politicians and wrote about social issues,� she said. �I returned home in 2002 and enrolled in the Parsons Associate Degree program. That�s how I started to study fashion design.�

Hong decided to participate in the NBC�s show because she wanted to become known. �To be exact, I wanted to make my ability as a designer known, not myself,� she said. When asked why she spells her name �Victorya� instead of the more usual spelling, she said, �There is no special reason. I have just liked to be different since childhood.�

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200712/200712120014.html

[SirFink]

She's not that cute, really. And she's turned out to be a kind of passive-aggressive bitchy chick on the show (so far). Has it begun airing in Korea yet? We're up to about six episodes here in the States.

[cunning_stunt]

Ok . That's really sad .

Apart from the fact that she has lived in the states since she was 3......her achievement that glorifies Korea is being on "project runway" where she met Sara Jessica Parker ?

I can't work myself up to feel anything but pity in this one .

[drkalbi]

she won for episode 7. They had to make prom dresses.

[Insidejohnmalkovich]

Nice to see she follows the Korean custom of mis-spelling the English name when she takes one.

Like parents and Korean teachers here who give names like Merry for Mary, Joy for Joey, Mickee for Mikey, Sopiya for Sophia, Sinsia (pronounced Shinshia) for Cynthia. I have also seen a girl named Huey and a boy named Haru (not his Korean name, just a random sound the parents liked I guess). And another boy was named June.

On the other hand I am surprised she is not named Jenny, Julie or Grace.

[Young FRANKenstein]

[Yaya]