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[mindmetoo]

I've noticed the hot Korean celebrities de jour tend to endorse almost any product under heaven. I think in particular of Mun Geun yeong, the rather thick eyebrowed, dangerously young actress that made a big splash in My Little Bride:



She's not that attractive but I think she's to early 30something Korean males what Winona Ryder (of her Mermaids/Reality Bites vintage) was to early 30something Western males. That kind of forbidden love. A girl who technically might be legal but you'd never chase her out of a sense of propriety but damn if she just fell into your lap. You'd be powerless, powerless I say, to say no to her quirky girlish youth. Etc.

Anyway, two hands back on the keyboard, she hawks KFC, cell phones, frozen foods... Yonsama is like another easy to recognize example.

I suspect the nature of Korean celebrity forces their hands. Most Korean starlets have zero career potential beyond age 28. The best they can do is being a hostess on home shopping or taking a role as "Cackling Ticket Booth Ajumma". So given little time, they have to sell their ass far and wide, bank as much as they can, and then marry an SNU prof.

[Swiss James]

aside from your point about promotion can I just say that girl is flipping hanging.

Bushy eyebrows, buck teeth and boz-eyed.

[Corporal]

http://www.eslcafe.com/forums/korea/viewtopic.php?p=675400&highlight=#675400

Yep--last year I referenced the caterpillar-like nature of this girl's eyebrows in the above thread, and was accused of being jealous, or shallow, or something.

Anyway, here she is again in all her toothy glory:

http://shenjingbing.com/mgy/pictures/embear.jpg

(Since apparently no one bought her tweezers for Christmas as I requested, perhaps she'll get 'em for Valentine's Day? Easter?)

[Troll_Bait]

[billybrobby]

trollbait, aren't you a guy? you know, guys don't always have to be physically attractive because we can be smart or good at math or something.

[mindmetoo]

[Corporal]

err, okay, but *actually* I think it's proof positive that a man can post something denigrating a woman's looks and get high-fives or at the very least head noddings all round, whereas a woman making the same post or even agreeing to the post will get, as you say, pilloried for being a bitter jealous bitch who's probably not even half as hot as the woman whose looks are being questioned.

[mindmetoo]

[dogbert]

So what? Brooke Shields has thick eyebrows too.

[HapKi]

you know what they say about a woman's eyebrows