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is so delicious
Joined: 28 Apr 2009
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 Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:08 pm Post subject: Why are Korean girls always puffing out their cheeks? |
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| I see it in photos, on the subway... what is this? Do they think it's sexy? Cute? Funny? Or is it natural? I don't believe I've seen this anywhere else... |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I think that there's some kind of fan death-ish type belief that puffing out your cheeks will prevent smile/laugh lines or something. I'm also kind of confused by this one. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Because it's cute. |
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Captain Obvious
Joined: 23 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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| They're emotive, not sullen. |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Funny, I'd thought I was the only one to notice this, so I probably would never have been the first to mention it. I find it kind of cute.....on cute girls that is. |
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nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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| It's a mating signal. |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah actually it could also be the girl advertising her excellent... "oral" skills, though I doubt it. |
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ashland
Joined: 05 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Gibberish wrote: |
| Yeah actually it could also be the girl advertising her excellent... "oral" skills, though I doubt it. |
you guys need to grow up... seriously. |
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Bloopity Bloop
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Seoul yo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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| not gonna lie, i think it's cute... well, sometimes. |
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Ruthdes
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 10:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Gibberish wrote: |
| I think that there's some kind of fan death-ish type belief that puffing out your cheeks will prevent smile/laugh lines or something. I'm also kind of confused by this one. |
I think this is the reason. Though I think the justification makes a little more sense than fan death, even if the science is just as dubious! |
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Gal
Joined: 28 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| It's the 'pouty lips' that's most annoyoing. It might be cute on kids, but when women in their 40s do it it's just inexplicable. What's with this culture and the quest for 'cuteness.' Forty year olds have complete Hello Kitty collections, college notebooks are covered in childish animation, etc |
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CentralCali
Joined: 17 May 2007
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:29 am Post subject: |
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Gal: Better that than Japan's "Loli Goth tribes." I've seen a grand total of five Goths in the last five years in Korea and three of them were Americans on the US base in Seoul. In five years in Japan, I saw hundreds and hundreds of women, well past their teens, wearing "Gosu Loli" (Gothic Lolita) outfits.
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mugen13
Joined: 25 Mar 2010
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 2:57 am Post subject: |
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| Because it's cute and probably because they see it on tv all the time. |
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The Gipkik
Joined: 30 Mar 2009
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| Infantilism is how sexually mature women attract men in Korea and Japan and other Asian countries. One subject that gets very little attention on these forums, and probably for good reason, is the nature of eroticism and fetishes here. Repressed societies tend to have many surprising answers. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Sat Mar 27, 2010 5:55 am Post subject: |
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eyelid surgery for the big round eyes ideal, puffed cheeks and wimpering pornography
to that degree the description fits
(maybe a polar opposite reaction to the ajumma aesthetic; there is little local cultural space for 'strong and sexy' outside of the dancer milieu)
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