Miss Korea Redux
Once again, netizens in Korea are strongly voicing their opinions.
When pictures of Nari, the newly crowned Miss Korea 2008, surfaced on the net, Korean netizens (who are a very very superficial bunch) screamed, hollered, and yelled all over their keyboards because she was not the ideal candidate to represent Korea in the Miss Universe pageant to put it lightly.
Miss Korea 2006, 2007, and 2008
In a response to all the negative feedback, Nari has uploaded several photos of herself on her Cyworld mini-homepage (kinda like Myspace or Facebook here) in "normal" appearance (or without the pageant hair and makeup) in order to get the netizens back in her corner.
And this is her official pageant promotional photo
Gotta admit....she does look better in these photos and more like a 22 year old college student and not like a Korean Fran Drescher. But geez...these netizens are so brutal. People here don't realize but netizens in Korea are merciless and their taunts and threats have had major impact in the entertainment industry.
Variety show MCs and producers who normally are quite powerful and influential because they can choose who to invite to be on their show are now kissing the butts of boy band idols half their age because they don't want the crazy teen fanatics to become their "anti" or anti-fan.
Dramas that originally planned to kill key characters have changed their endings due to threats from netizens (e.g. if you kill off my precious Hyun Soo opba I'll never watch your station again!).
And even a few celebrity suicides can be directly attributed to internet gossip. There was even this one girl who came on a show because she lost like 70 pounds and then was kissed by a boy band idol. The netizens went apeshit and started bombarding her mini-homepage with threats (how dare you kiss my opba! you are just a fatty who doesn't deserve that kiss!) and she ultimately commited suicide. It's utter madness I tell you. Yeah, I admit to being a bit superficial myself here now and then but only when fair game to do so (like judging a beauty pageant contestant) but maybe I better check myself befo' I wreck myself.
When pictures of Nari, the newly crowned Miss Korea 2008, surfaced on the net, Korean netizens (who are a very very superficial bunch) screamed, hollered, and yelled all over their keyboards because she was not the ideal candidate to represent Korea in the Miss Universe pageant to put it lightly.
Miss Korea 2006, 2007, and 2008
In a response to all the negative feedback, Nari has uploaded several photos of herself on her Cyworld mini-homepage (kinda like Myspace or Facebook here) in "normal" appearance (or without the pageant hair and makeup) in order to get the netizens back in her corner.
And this is her official pageant promotional photo
Gotta admit....she does look better in these photos and more like a 22 year old college student and not like a Korean Fran Drescher. But geez...these netizens are so brutal. People here don't realize but netizens in Korea are merciless and their taunts and threats have had major impact in the entertainment industry.
Variety show MCs and producers who normally are quite powerful and influential because they can choose who to invite to be on their show are now kissing the butts of boy band idols half their age because they don't want the crazy teen fanatics to become their "anti" or anti-fan.
Dramas that originally planned to kill key characters have changed their endings due to threats from netizens (e.g. if you kill off my precious Hyun Soo opba I'll never watch your station again!).
And even a few celebrity suicides can be directly attributed to internet gossip. There was even this one girl who came on a show because she lost like 70 pounds and then was kissed by a boy band idol. The netizens went apeshit and started bombarding her mini-homepage with threats (how dare you kiss my opba! you are just a fatty who doesn't deserve that kiss!) and she ultimately commited suicide. It's utter madness I tell you. Yeah, I admit to being a bit superficial myself here now and then but only when fair game to do so (like judging a beauty pageant contestant) but maybe I better check myself befo' I wreck myself.
posted by Myong Choi at 8:45 AM
3 Comments:
Even with the pics, still can't believe she won. But it's just a pageant. Geez people! Get a life!
Korean netizens have no life except to ridicule and judge others. Yes...it's very sad.
Even now, they're uncovering old lingerie semi-nude photos of the Miss Korea runner up and they're making the rounds of the Korean papers now...
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