Meet The Controversial Winner of Miss Korea 2018 | ASIAN BOSS
We talked to Miss Korea 2018, Soo Min Kim, to discuss the issue of Korean beauty standards and body-shaming.
Special thanks to Soomin for sharing her story.
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I just watched this video! It was wonderful meeting you Steve! Thank you so much for letting me share my story. I truly enjoyed our conversation 😊✨
And thank you everyone for your support! It means alot❣️
Girl, you’re not perfect because nobody is. But you’re great because you’re you. It’s your beauty environment that’s toxic. Stay fab & move on.
Hi there, you look healthy and beautiful. And above all, intelligent and love your parents. That should be the new beauty standard. Thanks for showing that to the world. <3 from Singapore 🙂
김수민 sookim IM HERE TO TELL U THAT U ARE PRETTY WTF IS WRONG WITH KNETZ
You have a unique light inside of you and a true personality, don’t let anyone take it from you, let your light shine and change Korea and the world 😊✨
sis I wanna hug you
In korean standard. A walking chopsticks is sexy.
I mean biologically speaking, skinnier is better than fatter
+BMO na sorry i don’t speak English that well i can’t understand😭
+Sophia Ulysse To the majority of people they aren’t. Surely someone somewhere will prefer a fat girl over a skinny one, but most people won’t.
Same goes for men. I’ve never met a girl who said they preferred fat dudes over average weight/skinny guys.
Why care so much about beauty standards? Being beautiful isn’t the most important quality on a human being. Why do people act like it is? Are you really that vain?
Either you work hard to fit the beauty standards or you concentrate on other attributes, like intelligence, compassion and sense of humor.
Whining about being ugly won’t make anyone pretty. Being delusional won’t change society’s preference, so either you bend to society, or you stop complaining about it and focus on something more useful, because, honestly, being beautiful isn’t very useful.
I’d take walking chopsticks over a walking bag of lard any day.
*For a fact I believe she’s the right chosen one for Miss Korea, not only does she have etiquette manners but the way she speaks maturely and intelligently of how real and genuine her responses are makes her a very wise person by dedicating her platform in a correct use. I love her so much! She’s doing a wonderful job reteaching the way people Define beauty!*
Jungkook’s Left Ear they’re trained to…
Might I ask… do they forbid people from joining the competition if they have ever had a facial surgery (big or small)? It seems to me every girls’ faces on the stages shown in this video are so unnatural?? sorry if I’m wrong
130 lb for 5’8″ considered “overweight” lmao
I hope the social pressure to be overly-skinny dropped a bit after she won her title
If she weighed 70 kg, shes still okay, shes 58 and considered fat? Wtf korea?
i don’t get this obbsession with weight, i understand if you actually see fat on a person but a few more numbers on a scale doesn’t mean anything.
Lmao 130-150 pounds is the healthy weight for someone that is 5’8″. It blows my mind that tall women purposely try to be lower than 115.
I’m 5’9 and 167, they can suck my arse.
Balance between height and weight is correct not one weight suits all. Thin or heavy boned makes a difference too on perfect weight. These ideas may make girls become anorexic.
she is very pretty, not the typical “doll-looking” pretty but kind of more mature looking, and she is smart and speaks great English. I would not doubt she is a fair winner.
+2Dtardeds Being smart can either mean being born with a high IQ or learning a lot through life. To say that someone who knows more isn’t smarter than someone who knows less is a bit nonsensical.
Kind Citizen she’s Korean American retard
English is her native tongue dude, she is supposed to speak “great” English, how that’s a qualifier of her intelligence is beyond me.
Why do Asians describe some pretty people “doll-like”? Is it because they look like they can’t be real because they look too perfect? I’m just curious. Also, how does being great at speaking English something that heightens IQ? Theres actually a study that concludes bilinguals having a harder time learning some things because of code switching, ECT. So her being smart because of her speaking good English doesn’t necessarily equal high IQ :/
+superxbert No dude, she’s fluent in Korean. English is her second language taught in the states for education purposes.
I don’t know how any of you feel, but they picked the right girl to represent Korea, she’s perfect.
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She’s humble, sweet, and very pretty. And she’s also smart with her words.
They picked the right girl to represent Korea. 😊💗
I hope she makes it to the top 10 in the Miss Universe pageant so that she can change the standard beauty in South Korea. South Korean women will stop thinking that they have to be too skinny to be considered beautiful. That is actually not healthy.
Heck, I hope she changes the standards for all young girls! The fact is that TV and models everywhere are pressuring girls to look a certain way when body shapes and sizes differ.
I think she is the Korean representative to the Miss International pageant.
The bathroom part of the discussion made me sad because it sounds like there were cases of bulimia going on during the camp. At least they were being proactive, but it probably only made some girls sneakier
I don’t know if she was trying to gloss over it to avoid getting too into depth because passing out randomly in the bathroom enough to go in pairs means something is up.
Millicent McAlpin 100% to do with ED’s, like you said, the fainting is truly a give away
+Millicent McAlpin I think she had too.. I am sure the pageant officials monitor the things she says about the pageant or the contestants. I used to do the pageant circuit a long time ago and you had to be careful because everything you said in interviews or even in private represents the pageant/country..so you constantly have to be on your guard.. but I am pretty sure you are correct that bulimia was the issue and the root cause of the group bathroom breaks. Either way she is a lovely young woman,They should be proud to have such a pretty, well spoken person represent South Korea
Millicent McAlpin I was thinking they might have been forcing themselves to lose weight (forced vomiting) so some of them collapsed lol idk
+prebaeked I thought that too and checking the baggages for sharp knifes and all that…
NOT FOR FOOD (just a grand way to say so that can check everything)
The bathroom issue makes a lot of sense to me.
I’d think someone would pass out for being malnourished, considering how skinny they are expected to be, so it’s good that nobody is left alone.
Yasuhiro true. Also I would expect people to purge in bathrooms so they don’t consume the calories they ate
I’d imagine it being stress coupled with being malnourished. I’d imagine most of them were really competitive and ambitious.
If you ate bad food and got diarrhea, then what? When you gotta go, you gotta go. They may have to wait 2 hours. Ugh.
This is what we call, beauty with brain. Congratulations Miss, you deserve the title. Ignore all the negative comments, haters gonna hate!
12:40 can I just cry?? She’s so beautiful both inside and out. These are just such genuine words that I know will make a difference in Korea’s beauty standards. I’m really happy that she won 💗
When she started crying I could just imagine her dad reading the comments and being mad and sad.
Korea needs to stop. This girl is gorgeous and sexy.
We in the Philippines we’ll be happy to adopt Miss Korea 2018
+That Thing You See At The Corner Of Your Eye Morena= dark skinned or tan filipina. Yeah there is an issue in colorism here, but most of the time we dont mind or it’s not a big deal (at least in my observation, but i could be wrong), i mean as far as i know there arent any complaints of Miss Philippines contestants or viral photos of filipinas being bashed for being morena. Most time of time they are praised for having a “morena beauty”. Although there are ads that promote skin whitening beauty products, some beauty products cater to those who are morena (like se dont ignore those who are morenas). We tend to see lighter skinned filipinos because they arent that common and most of filipinas are morenas, some people are colorists but dont cause a really huge issue (again, it’s just my observation and i could be wrong). I bet most of the colorists are morenas (some people have crab mentality) but who knows?
+fancybaguette im also dark skinned too (well just little bit lighter cause my dad is a moreno and my mom is fair) but i guess people have different experiences. My community doesnt really mind morenas like whenever they posted the candidates of miss cdo morenas get equal praises to those who are fair skinned. Also i have my family telling me that i was lucky to inherit some of my mom’s fair skin (probably because of unfair beauty standards), but some of my family said it’s okay if i have my dad’s skin tone (because morena is still beautiful). And people commenting on morenas being ugly are being scolded (at least from where i live)
fancybaguette
Oh, cool. I’m glad
please no..
Me thinking : people are probably popping weight lost pills in bathroom”
Soo: people are passing out alone in the bathroom.
InMyCraftLoft PaperCrafting Tutorials or throwing out their food
Exactly, I thought it would be like “girls kept trying to puke out their food” or something.
That’s the reason she was elected…. a smart cookie, brain is more important than the 106 pounds they are crying for… she’s gorgeous by the way💕
koreans are wierd. look at girls generations. theyre anorexic. new girls are like normal weight. famous people from like the 2000s and when kpop first got famous STILL maintain their anorexic ass weight Like HYuna for example. cause to them its normal! cause thats how they were forced to live their whole lives. ITS not normal. they look so skinny its scary and uncomfortabl.e. korea has this wierd thing about numbers they don’t look at people and bmi and looks anymore its wierd. im not korean this is an outside perspective. but they really quit on actual standards and just base everything on algorithms and numbers, whatever category on earth it is.
Fat where????? She’s STUNNING, what a delicate and beautiful young woman, I’m like 😍 Her answers are so smart too
She’s really smart, the judges chose correct. She’s definitely not fat but she’s healthy
If she’s considered fat, then I’m morbidly obese
+Serena Lu then i must be the galaxy holding all the stars and planet which is mean my excessive fat.
Ikr? Dude I’m 160 cm and 45 kg. And I’m skinny. Imagine 173 cm = 47/48 kg? You’ll look like walking bones honestly.
110 lbs. is too thin 5 ft. 4 or more. I go by my height of 5 ft. 2 and 110 lbs.
same
If she’s fat, I’m already dead from health complications
I’m glad you did this interview, Kim SooMin is well spoken, poised, and grounded. She deserved to win this and more.
imagine thinking that a 5’8 woman is overweight at 130lbs when in reality she’s only five pounds away from being underweight for her height
Which BMI scale?
FYI the World Health Organization actually advises that Asians use a slightly different BMI scale because studies seem to indicate that their bodies are less tolerant of fat and are meant to be skinnier.
The controversial in the title is because she really received massive hate message even forced to shutdown her ig
But she’s really charming beautiful inside out 😍