Finally do we have proof that plastic surgery has gone too far in Korea?
Right now the Japanese internet is enjoying just such a gloat as they peruse the entries for Miss Korea.
Why? Because the ladies look so similar it is virtually impossible to tell them apart unless you look at the Hangul names.
It's no secret that plastic surgery is rampant in Korea -- as opposed to Japan, where it is common in the celebrity world but kept an open secret -- but does this mean that everyone starts to look the same, with the same kind of generic beauty?
The girls look lovely but ...
We've long been a fan of Korean actress Bae Doo-na.
The cutie (33) has been on our screen for years already, including in a couple of Japanese films as well as several major Korean hits.
She is not afraid to strip off either, having shed her clothes for Plum Blossom and Sympathy For Mr Vengeance in some quite explicit sex scenes.
One of her Japanese roles was as a blow-up sex doll, for which she was frequently nude.
Now she is working in America too, with a role as a sexy android in Cloud Atlas, which is adapted from the sprawling novel by ...
Following the orbital rise of Korean girl unit Girls Generation, Japanese pop has been searching for who can combat the continental ladies' incredible leg power.
This answer, it is being touted, is this new group, Bikyaku Jidai -- literally "Beautiful Legs Era" -- who have been formed for this express purpose.
The main qualification for the seven ladies in the group was that they had lovely legs.
With such single-minded approach we suspect their musical success may be rather limited. This is one of their masterpieces.
By way of comparison, here are the Korean ladies in ...
Three female celebrities were arrested in Seoul by local police on March 13th for use of the illegal drug propofol ("milk shot") from dozens to hundreds of times over the past two years.
Park Si-yeon, Lee Seung-yeon, and Jang Mi-inae are the latest actresses to be investigated and charged. Yeong Hyeon has also been fined for use of the drug.
Although propofol has many medical uses around the world, in Korea its frequent use as an hallucinogenic agent led to it being defined as a mind-altering drug in 2011.
Its use is an open secret in the entertainment world in Korea and scandal ...
We don't wish to stoke any more international anger between Japan and Korea, but we just had to blog this when we read about it.
The December issue of tabloid rag SAPIO is reporting that, while it is not a fact that Korean men have the smallest of cocks, it is smaller than normal.
Just 9cm is apparently what's been bandied around online.
I personally have no experience with Korean men so cannot say either way.
On the whole, they seem more macho than their Japanese counterparts, so this news is surprising, to be honest.
A Spanish penis enlargement company has done a "survey" ...
Korea has the infamy of "the nation of prostitution" and it gets even stronger as it exports its biggest asset (and no, we don't mean Samsung).
Along highways you used to find lines of sex shops with open windows like the chon no ma you get in Ueno, Kawasaki or in Osaka.
In the old days Korean sex shops used to be a hair salon but in the back room there would be "extra" services. However, since 2004 these kinds of places have disappeared. Likewise there used to be places that on the surface appear to be tea rooms that "delivered" things but with more on the menu that just ...
K-Pop girl group KARA were asked at a recent press conference what they thought about Takeshima/Dokdo.
Naturally, not being politicians, it is unfair to call on them in this way... but journalists are cruel and cannot resist stirring up a hornet's nest.
KARA are on of several K-Pop bands who are active in Japan and have fans are both sides of the ocean. A wrong word on these thorny issues can alienate people forever.
Korean actors and music artists who work in Japan have been submitted to this trial recently, compared to "fumi-e" -- where in the Tokugawa period, Shogunate ...
As much as we love Korea, K-Pop, Korean food and Korean girls, the continuing furore over the island of jagged rocks that is Takeshima/Dokdo has been causing some upsetting silliness over on the peninsular.
Now an internet has put up a sign in Korean and (bizarrely) English stating its refusal to allow Japanese would-be netizens from entering the premises.
Both Korean and Japanese online observers have been quick to point out that if the sign is not in Japanese, people will not understand it -- or just won't think to read it.
The sign displayed proudly at the internet cafe in ...
Former Miss Universe Japan runner-up, model, and actress Biwon has admitting having plastic surgery last year.
We found this amusing because many Japanese girls like to discard the amazing "bijin" quality in Korean women with the excuse that it's all just due to plastic surgery.
Certainly it is more common and latent on the peninsular. However, it's a dirty secret in Japan (along with how idols essentially have to sleep with their management at the start of their careers) that many idols and singers have used plastic surgery to enhance their "perfect" look. Unlike Korea, though, few will ...
Korean actress Oh In Hye and her amazing breasts became instantly famous when she stepped out, and they almost slipped out of an extremely revealing, bra-less orange dress that left almost nothing to the imagination during the 2011 BIFF (Busan International Film Festival).
Now Oh In-hye (b. 1987) has starred in Red Vacance Black Wedding, an erotic drama where Oh In-hye plays a femme fatale having an affair with an older man. There are two very graphic sex scenes that are awe-inspiring to watch.
Oh In-hye said: “I was really worried and I felt a lot ...
