

On occasion, when the candidate doesn't qualify for any reason for the contest, another girl is sentįormer titles Miss Universe Korea One of the two 1st runner-ups (Sun) of Miss Korea represents her country at Miss Earth. Miss International Korea 2014 Lee Seo-bin Traditionally, 1st runner-up competed at Miss World but since 2011, the 1st runner-up of Miss Korea represents her country at Miss International. On occasion, when the candidate doesn't qualify for any reason for the contest, another girl is sent.

One of the two 1st runner-ups (Sun) of Miss Korea represents her country at Miss International. Korea debuted at Miss International in 1960. Lee Hye-joo, Shin Yoon-ah, Lee Da-hyun, Shin Hye-ji Park Chae-won, Kim Kye-ryung, Lee Yoon-ji, Im Kyung-min Kim Sa-rang, Nam Seung-woo, Lee Soo-yeon, Pi Hyun-ji Lee Young-in, Kim Min-jeong, Hong Na-shil, Lee Chae-young Park Ah-reum, So A-reum, Choi Myung-kyung, Han Ho-jeong Ryu So-ra, Baek Ji-hyun, Lee Sarah, Kim Myeong-seon Koo Bon-hwa, Choi Hye-rin, Han Soo-min, Kim Min-joo, Choi Song-yi Kim Young-joo, Kim Na-hyun, Kim Tae-hyun, Kim Yoo-jin Lee Semina, Nam Mi-yeon, Kim Soo-jung, Gong Pyung-hee Ha Hyun-jung, Ko Hyun-young, Lee Gui-joo, Ahn Da-hye

Park Ye-ju, Yoo Soo-jung, Lee Seul-ki, Choi Ji-hee Park Hee-jung, Kim Yoo-mi, Park Sung-min, Kim Soo-hyun Lee Jung-min, Yang So-hyun, Choi Yoon-hee Kim Young-sun, Shin Byoung-ok, Kim Soon-aeĬhoi Suk-young, Lee Ji-hee, Choi Jung-yoon Since 2016, Miss Korea organization no longer send South Korea's representative to Miss Universe.Ĭha Jang-ok, Shin Byoung-sook, Lee Hye-kyung In 2015, Hanju E&M took over Miss Korea Organization. Until 2010, Miss Korea would also select the representative to Miss World, but starting with Miss World 2011, a separate competition has been held to choose the contestant who will represent Korea. On March 16, 2011, the president of the Miss World Organization, Julia Morley, announced the newly launched Miss World Korea pageant. Lastly, four "Mi" (미) finalists (equivalent to semi-finalists) are chosen. Additionally, there are two "Sun" (선) finalists (equivalent to 1st runners-up), who go on to compete in Miss International or Miss Earth. The winner "Jin" (진) is crowned as the official Miss Korea. Each year, approximately fifty women compete in Seoul, South Korea, and seven are selected by a panel of judges. Let alone dead props stuffed into trunks.The first Miss Korea competition took place in 1957 and was sponsored by the Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo. So drive your cars, smoke your cigarettes, and gaze intensely into the distance, "bad guys" of the world, but stop using women as props in the mythology of your supposed badassery. The petition points out that Korea ranks a depressing 117th out of 142 countries on the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Index 2014 - and that imagery glamorizing this gap at its worst is unacceptable.Īnd, with 35% of women worldwide estimated to have experienced intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lives, it's not as if the abuse of women is country-specific. A petition by Korean women imploring Maxim Korea to "Stop sexually fantasizing about crimes against women" is gathering speed, having gained nearly 10,000 signatures so far today. We can get down with a man in a leather jacket, but somehow violence against women isn't our idea of sexy. Dying for him, right?" You know what, Maxim? Not so much.

The cover text elaborates on the visual message, reportedly translating roughly to "Women like bad guys? This is a what a bad guy looks like. " Oh, we've got it - let's put a female model in the trunk of the car and show only her bound, naked legs, implying that our bad guy is so bad, he actually killed a woman and stuffed her into his trunk before pausing for a casual cigarette break over her lifeless body." Nailed it.
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"What is our brooding antihero missing?" the room full of tastemakers who plotted the cover's creative direction must have asked themselves. This year, for their September cover, which features actor Kim Byung-ok of Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance fame, the Maxim Korea team decided to go with the theme of the "Bad Guy." Pensive stare, check. September issues are traditionally the most important of the year in magazine publishing, and editors do not choose the concepts for them lightly.
