A new Miss Korea is crowned

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

The new Miss Korea has been crowned, and she is Kim Ju-ri, a 21-year-old studying at the Bolshoi Ballet school in Russia.

The Miss Korea Pageant took place on the evening of July 8 at Seoul’s Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, and was hosted by former Miss Korea finalist and now actress-mother-wife Sohn Tae-young. Kim Ju-ri takes over from last year’s winner, Na Ri (whom you may recall suffered criticism for not being “pretty enough” for the win). Preceding her was Lee Ji-sun, who won in 2007, and before her was Honey Lee in 2006.




The finalists are divided into three distinctions: Miss Korea jin is the sole winner (Kim Ju-ri, in the center), while she is flanked in the above photo by the two Miss Korea sun finalists. The four outer finalists won the Miss Korea mi distinction.

The full list of awards:

Miss Korea (jin): Kim Ju-ri
Miss Korea (sun): Cha Ye-rin, Seo Eun-mi
Miss Korea (mi): Park Ye-joo, Lee Seul-gi, Yoo Su-jung, Choi Ji-hee

Talent Award: Yoo Su-jung
Friendship Award: Yang Kook-hwa
Manners Award: Jo Su-jin
Photogenic Award: Wang Ji-hye
Korean Abroad Award: Kwon Ri-sae
Popularity Award: Park Ye-joo

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Miss Korea winner

After being named the winner, Kim Ju-ri said, “Although I’ve become Miss Korea, my dream is to be a ballerina. As a Korean ballerina, I would like to show the world the pride and beauty of Korea’s women.”






Miss Korea sun

Cha Ye-rin (22) is a university student studying English literature and hails from Jeonbuk.




Seo Eun-mi (21), studies Korean art at university and is from Daegu.





Miss Korea mi

Park Ye-joo (22) is from Seoul and also won the popularity award. She is studying fashion design at Parsons Design School.



Yoo Su-jung (21) also won the talent competition and is a university student studying English from Daejeon.



Gangwon’s Lee Seul-gi (20) is in the modeling department (there’s a modeling department?) at university.



Choi Ji-hee (22) is also studying modeling and comes from Kyunggi province.




Other group pics










Source: hankooki, nownews, newsen,
Via: dramabeans

Comments

[downpour.livejournal.com]

ooo yeah i saw this! i think she's rly qt. :3 i didn't like last year's winner. but we all know that honey lee > ALL.

[itzbets.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Miss America in a awhile but Miss Korea looks like one giant production.

And I see the bathing suit competition in any nation is unflattering.

[silent-shout1.livejournal.com]

Wow those swimsuits are not attractive.

[liime-arix.livejournal.com]

I hate the swimsuit, it's not very flattering or attractive.

[jia-zhang.livejournal.com]

They all look exactly the same to me. Really boring and really plastic.

And why the fuck are they all from pathetic "modeling" departments and other girlie BS? =_= *sigh* Things like this makes me worry greatly about the future of Korean women.

[iheartomntd.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same thing. She's pretty blah looking to me. They all are.

[sincronia.livejournal.com]

That first line -- TRUFAX. I thought the exact same thing.

[poppytea.livejournal.com]

i don't think the future of korean women is reflected in the annual miss korea pageant lol.

[bambayahh.livejournal.com]

congrats to her :]

[hero-jelly.livejournal.com]

She's alright, but Honey Lee is still my favorite winner.

[supremacists.livejournal.com]

i remember watching mr. hong kong with my dad last year
not really into the whole pageant stuff.

[marochi-x.livejournal.com]

Lack of cuuurrvess.

[maisoui.livejournal.com]

I think it interesting how more than one crown is given out. :O

[-ochre.livejournal.com]

lol but there's only one bigass crown, and it's for the grand winner.

[lovemixin.livejournal.com]

0___0 they're swimsuits are....... onepieces .


THAT is news to me .

[iheartdarkblue.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're pretty, but not outstanding.

[club-hypnotic.livejournal.com]

Clearly the recession hit the swimsuit section particularly hard.
Kim Ju-ri's smile looks really forced. D: I like Cha Ye-rin better.

And wow, after a while, they all look like clones. @.@

[hp-groupie.livejournal.com]

IS THIS A GROUP WINK PICTURE? Or do my eyes deceive me?

http://i26.tinypic.com/2ufvm9l.jpg

And all the dresses remind me of 90s proms. DNW.

[iheartdarkblue.livejournal.com]

RACIST!

Lol, jk. It must be the lighting or something.

[streetrat.livejournal.com]

so many women smiling and not a single sincerely warm one is coming from any of them
that is. . . really creepy

[hoyah.livejournal.com]

... i didn't realize that was pictures of different people until someone said "they" all look the same. 8D oops. pretty, though.

[xxsmiiles.livejournal.com]

I don't think she's very pretty... lol I loved Honey Lee.

[amorspesfides.livejournal.com]

while scrolling down I thought to myself, "wow that's a lot of plastic". Goddamn, those fake smiles are scary. They probably wear them while having sex/murdering people.

[poppytea.livejournal.com]

fug :(

[supaflip.livejournal.com]

the Miss Universe Japan girls makes the Miss Korea ones looks so ajummah. this applies across the board especially for 2009. check out ines ligron's blog

[vanillacat.livejournal.com]

You're totally right - Ms. Japan blows this chick out of the water in sheer attractiveness.

I feel like, if these women were in SNSD, people would be mocking them the way they mock Hyoyeon.

[cyh90616.livejournal.com]

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where have gone those betiful girls ~~

THIS YEAR'S MISS HONGKONG is definetely horrible

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

Wow she studies at the Bolshoi Ballet? o.o ttly jealous. I hope her Miss Korea responsibilities don't get in the way of that. She must be damn good if she's there.

[frutips-centre.livejournal.com]

MTE!

[polysweet.livejournal.com]

She's pretty but there's no WOW! feeling coming from any of them, really. :|

[abcdoraemi.livejournal.com]

http://i27.tinypic.com/2n69o5z.jpg

...did they all get the same nose job or sthn?

[tinyknots.livejournal.com]

I never say this but they all look the same......
And I was surprised at how 'curvy' some of them were. I expected more sticks.

[pretzel-knot.livejournal.com]

wait, she's 21? WHAT?

[akaich0u.livejournal.com]

No one beats Honey Lee in my book.