Women who love sports are just so attractive! Would you like to ride a
bike together with Seo E Lee? Besides cycling, Seo also works out with weight
regularly at the gym. Boys, you don’t have to listen to fast music to motivate
yourself, just work out with this beautiful Korean lady together at the gym,
that is motivation indeed!!
運動女生最漂亮！你又想不想跟Seo E Lee一齊踩車呢？Seo除了踩單車，仲會玩Surf同weight train，同佢一齊訓練一定可以提升能量值。疫情過後想去首爾同埋踩單車，不妨看看佢點樣介紹。
Seo started cycling in Autumn last year when she faced major
challenges in her life. Her superior suggested that she takes up cycling to
reduce stress.
Seo是去年秋天開始踩單車的，當時她正遇上人生的困難，她的上司就推介她去踩單車。
One of the reasons she enjoys cycling is the beautiful sceneries along
the journey which make her instantly forget the unhappiness in her life. Cycling
can change her mood easily.
因為踩車時，可以看到很漂亮的風景，因而可以立即忘記生活中的不快事。踩單車，絕對改變了她的感受。
Cycling gives her a lot of positive energy. She also met
a lot of friends and striking conversation with them makes her feel better with
her life.
Due to the pandemic, all of us haven’t step on board a plane for more
than a year which sounds like a life time! I’m sure we all miss the sight of
beautiful air stewardess that provide excellent service to the passengers. Here
we have this pretty Korean lady who is still studying to be an air stewardess. Her
timing is perfect because once she graduates, the pandemic will probably be
over. Just wondering which airline company will be so lucky to have her on board…
For those of you who enjoy instant Korean food like Jin Ramen,
three-minute curry or microwaveable rice porridge, you’ve probably came across
the Korean food manufacturing company Ottogi – the household brand nicknamed
“God-ttogi”.
While the rich chaebol family behind the company prefers to keep low
profile, Ham Yon-ji, the 24-year-old daughter of Ottogi chairman Ham
Young-joon, is anything but. She is rich, talented and very pretty!
Ham Yong-ji is making a name for herself in a completely different
field: musical theatre. She attended the prestigious Daewon Foreign Language
High School and New York University Tisch School of the Arts, and subsequently
made her debut as Scarlett O‘Hara in a French musical version of Gone with the Wind
in 2015. Ham defeated 300 competitors for the role. Since then, she has
appeared in musicals like Amadeus and Notre-Dame de Paris as well as the 2016
TV drama [Still Loving You].
This ambitious lady is also a YouTuber! She shares her daily life
through vlogs, cooking videos and song covers, keeping her audience entertained
with her cheerful personality.
Last year, Ham also signed a contract with entertainment agency
Sandbox Network.
In 2016, Ham Yong-ji was ranked the fifth-richest celebrity as she
owned more than US$31 million worth of company investments in stocks.
Ham has also shared her favourite shoes and bags on her YouTube
channel. Each item has a story of its own. Her Jimmy Choo glitter gradation
pumps, for example, were a wedding gift from her dad that she only wore twice.
She also has Louis Vuitton shoes passed down from her mother and a 50-year-old
bag from her grandmother.
Ham’s family earned its “God-ttogi” nickname through various
charitable campaigns, from funding university scholarships to supporting
children with heart disease. They strongly believe in making contribution to
their community. Ham has also uploaded videos of her volunteering works with
her father. With such generous attitude despite their wealth, no wonder the Ham
Family is so highly respected by their community. It is important to have more
people like Ham Yong-ji who takes full advantage of her privileges to help
others in need.
Korean beauty
Bitnara was a model and social media live host at the same time. With her sweet
look and great body, she manages to attract a lot of male followers.
She is very
active on Instagram, frequently posts her lifestyle photos. She has more than
900,000 fans following her!
K-pop girls group Momoland member Nancy McDonie was
on the news recently after leaked spy cam photos of her undressing backstage
went viral online last weekend.
McDonie’s agency MLD
Entertainment said the K-pop singer was emotionally devastated over the photos.
They are planning to file
criminal and civil charges on her behalf against the Peeping Tom as well as
those who circulated the photos online. They will need cooperation from
overseas police and judicial authorities to hold the first person who posted
the photos responsible. Others who took part in spreading the photos will also
be the target of the legal action.
The reason to involve foreign
authorities is because the incident took place at the 2019 Asia Artist Awards
in Vietnam.
Momoland
Momoland’s fans were outraged
over the news which forced the 2019 Asia Artist Awards organising committee to
apologise to McDonie and took responsibility for the incident.
Momoland fans also created the
hashtag #OurRainbowNancy on Twitter to send messages of encouragement to the
20-year-old.
This platform was also used to
raise awareness about sexual harassment and the need to provide protection and
support for victims as this may happen to almost anyone regardless whether you
are a celebrity or not.
This is not the first time
celebrity becomes victim of illegal voyeurism. Many years ago when Hong Kong’s
Twins were at the climax of their career, Gillian Chung (鍾欣潼) experienced the similar unfortunate
incident during their concert tour at Genting Highland, Malaysia.
These
type of incidents will continue to happen as long as social medias are not
being monitored as stringent as the mainstream medias. Especially when people
are looking for instant fame online. They thought that the photos they post
will make them famous overnight on the internet. They are more interested to
see how many ‘Likes’ they can received from their post than the feeling of the
victims. Such is the price to pay for embracing the information age. Better
safeguard of people’s privacy is needed online without sacrificing our so
called freedom of opinion.
K-pop girl group Red Velvet are facing an uncertain future with member Irene under pressure to leave the group due to a bullying scandal involving a stylist.
Debuting in 2014 and known for their stand-out musicality, the quintet have been inactive for most of 2020 since member Wendy was injured during a live performance last December. With Wendy recently returning to the industry following her recovery, Red Velvet were expected to release new music before the end of the year.
But earlier this month, member Irene was called out for verbally abusing a stylist during a photo shoot, resulting in other industry insiders taking to social media to share their experiences with the allegedly volatile singer.
Irene, who most recently released the mini-album Monster in June as a duo with fellow Red Velvet member Seulgi, apologised on social media after the incident and to the individual in person, but her reputation has been damaged and there are calls for her to leave the act.
"I sincerely apologise for hurting the stylist with my foolish attitude and indiscreet words and acts," she posted on Instagram. "As I looked back, I was ashamed of myself and once again felt how precious our staff members are. From now on, I will be more cautious to prevent another incident like this." She also reportedly met the stylist to apologise in person.
While the biggest stars can be brought down by even a brief meltdown, in K-pop it's rare for stories of stars' misbehaviour to emerge from the industry itself.
The growing controversy over Irene's actions comes as South Korea comes to terms with the phenomenon known as gapjil, or what former Agence France-Presse Seoul correspondent Hawon Jung describes as "abusing (or) bullying others using one's social hierarchy and power".
Jung, who is writing a book about the #MeToo movement in South Korea, believes that much of the anger towards Irene stems from the country's reckoning with gapjil.
"Regardless of the veracity of the claim against her, or the severity of this particular case, the public sees this as part of a pattern of abuse by those in the power that has become a big issue in the country in recent years," says Jung.
Red Velvet's reputation as a mainstay of the K-pop world now seems at risk. Known for hits such as Psycho, Dumb Dumb and Red Flavor, Red Velvet have become one of South Korea's biggest girl groups, with members not only focusing on music but also becoming popular television personalities and actors.
Apart from the calls for Irene to step out of the spotlight, Red Velvet's management company, SM Entertainment, recently announced the launch of upcoming girl group Aespa, which some see as an attempt to divert attention away from the growing controversy over Irene.
In South Korea, stars - especially members of boy bands and girl groups - are typically expected to maintain a wholesome image. Women in particular are held to a high standard, with female K-pop stars often taken to task for lesser controversies than male artists.
Men often find it easier to return to the industry after a scandal, even if they face legal consequences. For example, singer-actor Kim Hyun-joong has faced a string of legal issues since 2014, but released a new album this month.
"Even if (Irene) was a man, she would face (a) certain level of public outrage and calls for a boycott because any perceived gapjil can easily touch a raw nerve in South Korea - where many people have personal experiences of falling victim to gapjil in their daily lives," says Jung. "But the question is not about whether there will be public outrage, but how long the public anger will last, how intense it will be, and how much damage it will bring to one's career."
The Irene controversy has blown up in South Korean media, with one major business newspaper even running an article on how an app determined that Irene's physiognomy, or facial features, revealed an apparently aggressive and reckless personality.
But in the past, those very same facial features led to Irene being dubbed the "visual" of Red Velvet, the member whose appearance is considered one of her most important assets.
Jung links the backlash against Irene to the lack of dominant women in South Korean workplaces. According to the research for her book, 70 per cent of South Korea's listed companies do not have a single woman in their boardrooms. Societal pressures result in many women being unable to find work or having to accept sexual harassment in the workplace, while being unable to progress in their careers if they want to have families.
For now, Jung believes it's hard to say whether the Irene controversy will spell the end for Red Velvet or whether she will be given another chance.
"I don't know how this will play out, or how it will affect (Irene's) career, but for me, the whole media brouhaha about her perceived gapjil seems to indicate that the media apply far more unforgiving moral standards to female stars than male stars - like they have always done," says Jung.
This article originally appeared on the South China Morning Post (www.scmp.com), the leading news media reporting on China and Asia.
K-pop girl group Blackpink has broken the record for fastest Korean female act to achieve over 10 million views on YouTube with their music video for Lovesick Girls.
Members Jennie, Jisoo, Lisa, and Rosé surpassed the 10 million views mark in just 52 minutes after their music video was posted at 12pm today.
They previously held the same record for their song Ice Cream featuring Selena Gomez, which amassed 10 million views in two hours and 55 minutes.
Blackpink has been enjoying massive success following the release of their much-anticipated record The Album today.
The quartet currently holds the number one spot on the US iTunes singles and albums charts, making them the second Korean girl group to do so after Loona.
The Album includes six new tracks from Blackpink, including the song Bet You Wanna featuring American rapper Cardi B.
Park So-dam, who played the smart, cunning little sister Jessica in Parasite’s Kim family, is back on the small screen with a new drama, Record of Youth – which debuted domestically on TVN on September 7.
Before breaking into mainstream success, Park was rejected at least 17 times in auditions – so she turned to indie films instead.
In an interview with Dramabeans, Park revealed how she had starred in at least 15 independent films while in school. Notable titles include Ingtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls, a Korean Academy of Film Arts feature, and Steel Cold Winter, which premiered at the Busan International Film Festival.
In an interview with Dramabeans, Park shared: “I saw the musical Grease as a freshman in high school. The actors looked so happy. That’s when I started thinking that maybe I would like to become a musical actor.”
Although dedicated to becoming an actress, Park never thought she would star in films or dramas. “Whenever I applied, actresses were expected to have large eyes and faces that automatically made people think, ‘she’s pretty’,” Park is quoted as saying on Soompi. “After I started acting, I didn’t think that I liked my face because it was pretty, but because it was unique. I can at least confidently say that no one can copy my face, even with plastic surgery.”
Parasite wasn’t Park’s first blockbuster, and she had already won plenty of major acting awards before gaining recognition in Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winner.
Two years after her debut, she starred in her first commercial film, The Silenced, which won her a best supporting actress gong at the Busan Film Critics Awards.
Park bagged another major role in film The Priests, where she delivered what many believe to be one of her best performances. In the same Dramabeans interview, Park shared that she earned her role through auditions against 2,000 other hopefuls. “The director who saw me at the second round of auditions said, ‘this girl has a unique aura’,” she said. Park went on to win a PaekSang Arts Award for best new actress.
In Record of Youth, Park So-dam’s character Ahn Jung-ha is a make-up artist who believes in striving to reach her goals and achieve her dreams to please herself rather than others. In a Soompi report, Park gushed about her latest role: “Ahn Jung-ha has a defined goal in life, she knows exactly what she wants to do, and she never stops in her efforts to achieve her dreams.”
In addition to being considered one of the top visuals in K-pop, A
Pink‘s Naeun has also been praised for her impeccable fashion taste and
sense of style.
And while the singer has worn her fair share of beautiful outfits in
the past, fans' jaws dropped when they saw her in a grey skin-tight
dress while she was making her way to a scheduled event.
With the thin cotton material hugging and emphasizing her curves, fans
claimed that Naeun and the dress were a perfect fit for each other,
reported Koreaboo.
Na-eun's elegant choice of her dress shows her subtle way of showing her beauty without being revealed too much.
Swimsuit models were never very common in Korea until recently.
But bikini model Hyerang, who goes by the name 'Rang 'Rang, could be helping to change all that.
Extremely popular in her homeland and starting to gain international
fame, she has been described as Korea's next top swimsuit model,
reported Koreaboo.
The Korean entertainment industry seems to continue to set higher benchmark by searching for new attractive talent to fulfill the appetite of the ever demanding public. There seems to be no end to this as celebrities find themselves having to reveal more and more of themselves in order to gain more attention and become more popular. Celebrities become more like a merchandise where there is an expiry date when people no longer find them appealing. Then new talents have to be sought after and strategy to make them popular among the masses will be formalized and implemented.
In most cases, this translates into showing more beautiful faces and mesmerizing bodies. This type of industry has to be sustained by keep producing new faces every now and then as most artists have no substantial talent like acting, singing or song writing to have a long career. Their careers will come to an abrupt end when they reach certain age.
The key players of the Korean entertainment industry have to seriously think about long term strategy if they wish to grow their stage onto the global platform.
