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mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I guess if English, math, piano, violin and science hagwons are not enough, plus golf and figure skating now Korean girls are all going to be packed off to modeling hagwon?

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200801/200801210015.html

seoulsucker · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:31 am Post subject:

From what I've seen in the time I've been here, lanky girls with abnormally long torsos and a "small heads/faces" are the prime candidates for fashion modeling.

Now racing models on the other hand...they tend to have other assets.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

She looks like she might have a bit more natural beauty than the average Korean celebrity.

flakfizer · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:39 am Post subject:

You can always spot the girls in the modeling department. They're the ones always looking in their mirrors, checking their make-up, dabbing their faces with that oil removal paper, taking pictures of themselves with their hand phones...

oh, wait

kiwiduncan · Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Location: New Zealand

I swore to myself I'd avoid commenting on girlie photos on Daves in the future but I can't resist here. She's very cute. Like Racetraitor said she looks much more natural than the average celeb or racing girl.

flakfizer · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:48 am Post subject:

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

Actually, some of you are wrong in your assumptions. Many of these award-winning models from schools like Dongduk (one is a friend, and was at my wedding) rarely wear make-up.

There are the types who are constantly looking in their mirrors, but a large percentage of these girls RARELY wear make-up. It's like work for them. I'm dead serious. The ones who really are models often run around clean-faced and in workout clothes. They have nothing to prove. They actually are models. When they're not working, they're content to go unrecognized.

It's the model wanna-bees that you see all decked-out 5 days a week.

Sure, movie stars like Lee Hyo Rhee go out a lot in make-up for appearances and such, but general model-types often go without make-up unless they are working or on a hot date.

bobbyhanlon · Joined: 09 Nov 2003 Location: 서울

i suppose she has the strong asian look that western people tend to go for. but i can definitely imagine most koreans saying 'huh? am i missing something here?'.
me too.. and as much as i hate apgujong, those modelling scouts need to take a walk down rodeo on a saturday afternoon.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

crusher_of_heads · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:24 pm Post subject:

Rapacious Mr. Batstove · Joined: 26 Jan 2007 Location: Central Areola

I think you'd have to be in the yellow fever quarantine section of Yonsei University Hospital to consider her a candidate for the pork sword.

Troll_Bait · Posted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

ceesgetdegrees · Joined: 12 Jul 2007

BUTTERFACE!

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

In my opinion, a university has no business having a modeling department; universities are for higher learning, are they not?

I'm not saying there's nothing to learn about modeling to aspiring models, but it seems more a trade than anything else to me. Modeling might better belong in college, but university? It doesn't seem right to have that alongside subject material such as medicine, engineering, philosophy, law, etcetera.