Luxury nose debut: Min Hyo-rin

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Yes, it’s real. If you aren’t already aware, ppl in Korea are obsessed about noses, including me. My little button nose is no match for new singer Min Hyo-rin’s (22) high acquiline one. Her nose has been labelled by the press as “luxury” (trans: 명품코), which means that she basically has a western nose. And this is the standard for which all women eyeing nose surgery want.

Min Hyo-rin made her singing debut at BEXCO in Busan at the M Superconcert on the 11th.

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49 Responses to “Luxury nose debut: Min Hyo-rin”


  1. 1 Eve May 13, 2007 at 10:35 pm

    I have no such obsession with noses lol…but I don’t know ~ the more I look at it…the more it looks weird. Maybe it’s me, I never look at people’s noses haha. So if I look at one for a long time ~ looks weird…-__-;;

  2. 2 monalisa May 13, 2007 at 11:52 pm

    I think that Han Ga-in’s nose is perfect!

  3. 3 sakura May 14, 2007 at 1:03 am

    why can’t people just be happy with what they’ve got? what’s the need for plastic surgery??

  4. 4 nileey May 14, 2007 at 1:25 am

    I have say she’s got a very nice nose, but she’s not as pretty as Han Ga-in

  5. 5 ChristaLuvsDrama May 14, 2007 at 2:00 am

    hehe I don’t have such nose obssesions, although I’ve got a pretty good one hehe The net has made me realize how ppl in general, really obsess over their noses.

  6. 6 mauwy May 14, 2007 at 3:00 am

    wah~ i never knew koreans can be very obbsessive about noses :D

  7. 7 xoxo May 14, 2007 at 3:02 am

    Her nose looks very Avril lavigne!

  8. 8 yep May 14, 2007 at 3:42 am

    she fugly as!

  9. 9 winterscent May 14, 2007 at 4:12 am

    It’s a little too pointy for me. I need to go check out this girl’s singing.

  10. 10 t5drei May 14, 2007 at 5:45 am

    is that nose suppose to be man-made??

  11. 11 christianpete May 14, 2007 at 7:07 am

    her nose in the first pic does look a little pointy and unnatural but in the other photos her nose looks just fine. So i guess it depends on the angle.

  12. 12 shan May 14, 2007 at 7:12 am

    Chae Yeon will always have the best/cutest nose in my opinion.

  13. 13 christianpete May 14, 2007 at 7:39 am

    I would say the nose of Park Soojin of Sugar is the best, imo. Its cute, natural, and has a birthmark right in the middle :p

  14. 14 dust bunny May 14, 2007 at 8:12 am

    luxury nose? ah the joys of konglish

  15. 15 popseoul May 14, 2007 at 8:19 am

    dust bunny- I couldn’t think of anything but “luxury” … haha… I guess I have been here for too long.

  16. 16 newbie May 14, 2007 at 11:16 am

    Haha! This reminds me of the time when I was in Korea, my aunt asked if she could touch my nose. She said she’d be able to tell if I’d gotten a nose job or not! Basically, she says that if the nose is, I guess you can say, flexible, then it’s real. If it’s rigid and not-so-flexible, then it’s fake. Suffice it to say, mine’s real. But, dude, I was SO weirded out. I didn’t understand what was up with the fascination with my nose!

  17. 17 gurl May 14, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    Her nose doesn’t match w/ her face. not proportional. White people fix their noses too. People just obsess with plastic surgery and their looks period.

  18. 18 xxcrazy_onex May 14, 2007 at 2:08 pm

    i dont think her nose is really that pretty….
    but i understand korea’s obsession with noses

    song hye kyo has a really pretty one, and han ga in

  19. 19 scotty May 14, 2007 at 7:20 pm

    i don’t understand how some ppl over here have grand obsession with noses – so much that it has turned into “who has the most luxurious nose”. it’s humorous… i know the plastic surgeons are happy about it, though.

    where does this obsession come from? do some koreans subconsciously compare their noses to white ppl’s noses?

  20. 20 shinjinny May 14, 2007 at 7:27 pm

    Maybe it’s just me, and I’m guilty of it too since I am born and raised here in the U.S., but Korean people really need to get over this whole “Western” obsession.

    Not everything that is “Western” or “European” is good and I don’t know why people are jumping all over themselves to get features that are CLEARLY not in line with their ethnic background. Be proud of that squat Korean nose! Geez.

  21. 21 Koana May 15, 2007 at 8:43 am

    I agree……. I adore the way asians look in general!!! A large group of people with many looks but all so wonderful!!
    Your beauty should always come from within and than it shines on the outside!!!
    In our “western” culture we have lost this basic rule!!!

  22. 22 christianpete May 15, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    for decades the American media has promoted the western standard of beauty worldwide. I think if more of us asians accepted the fact that our natural facial features are just as beautiful, then this obsession with trying to look caucasian will decrease….On the other hand, I don’t look down on anyone who gets cosmetic surgery. If it makes them feel better about themselves – then more power to them..

  23. 23 scotty May 15, 2007 at 6:29 pm

    imo korean women are naturally beautiful without plastic surgery…

  24. 24 debko June 30, 2007 at 4:13 am

    I personally find cute, small, but a-tad-pointy noses much more appealing than a nose as prominent and as straight as hers.

  25. 25 Em June 30, 2007 at 4:17 am

    Newbie, even fake noses are made flexible these days so your aunt is wrong. I’ve seen this show where they showed how flexible fake noses can be just like real ones.

  26. 26 babybakchoy July 4, 2007 at 12:37 pm

    LOL she reminds me of alanis morsette?!?!?!?
    haha maybe just the hair
    i think her nose it too “out”
    but her side profile is so must prettier than her front profile

  27. 27 KimChi July 9, 2007 at 3:44 pm

    Hmm…Don’t care too much about her nose. Everyone is pretty in their own way. She’s a singer not a model in this picture so you should just judge her singing first. She’s cute anyway. We can’t all look like Barbie Dolls or Jessica SImpson.

  28. 28 deborah July 22, 2007 at 2:23 am

    D: my mother believes she has the most gorgeous nose ever.
    excluding a noticeable bump on it…
    Dx she wants me to get surgery like her!

  29. 29 J July 23, 2007 at 2:00 pm

    I’m a western gal, & I’m trying to get rid of mine! I want a button nose. See, people always want what they don’t have.

  30. 30 kensai July 23, 2007 at 6:24 pm

    That’s weird, she looks pretty unattractive…and mainly because of her nose.

  31. 31 caprisun July 25, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Her nose looks freakish/unnatural to me! I don’t find it attractive at all. XD

    It doesn’t look like a western nose to me… it looks like a plastic one! I think those small, cute button noses are much more attractive on Asian women.

  32. 32 sexychikita July 28, 2007 at 3:46 pm

    her nose surgery is fantastic i could say,as compared with the recent nose job of park shi hyeon!..but i agree that han ga in’s nose is very close to perfection and also song hye gyo’s..xoxo

  33. 33 saranghae August 8, 2007 at 12:20 am

    ~uhh…her nose looks monstrous.,haha

  34. 34 Luv_tvxq August 16, 2007 at 6:46 pm

    Min Hyo Rin’s nose like Michael Jackson

  35. 35 gongjoo November 23, 2007 at 9:02 am

    i dont like her nose.
    and i myself am obssessed with noses.
    in the side it looks GROOSSS..
    mine is the one where it becomes fat when i smile.

    booo.

  36. 36 Ivy202 December 3, 2007 at 3:47 am

    Her nose kinda reminds me of Avril L. (Sorry, don’t know how to write her last name…)
    But she is still cool. :)

  37. 37 brenna December 17, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    well i thing i can say is…..cause she wants to be remember as an artist….thats all..

  38. 38 blogr December 31, 2007 at 12:14 pm

    as someone who is paying thousands of dollars to study the bio-sciences and such, myself and the surgeon i’ve been interning for for two years can tell you that she’s had her nose broken in with some hyalouronic-botox based injection fillers. megan fox from transformers fame recently had it done too.

  39. 39 Truc January 8, 2008 at 6:48 am

    um her nose is DEFINITELY fake. can’t you tell? its not even possible for asians to have noses like that.

  40. 40 Melissa January 16, 2008 at 9:36 am

    whoa that is weird. so many ‘western’ people have that nose, and Koreans think it’s luxury? wow.

    Ivy202, i totally agree with you!

  41. 41 Renne January 23, 2008 at 12:19 pm

    ahaha…anything that’s natural is BEAUTIFUL….Ugly is the new beautiful..=) well,i think han ga in nose is very nice n pretty too…wat i know is that korean actress like to go under the knife for plastic surgery..wat i find very weird is that most of the male actors have single eyelid but for female actress, they have double eyelids…isnt that weird…this makes me come to a conclusion that most female actress went for plastic surgery to make their eyes look big n have double layer..haha…=)

  42. 42 AwesomeAshley. July 28, 2008 at 12:15 pm

    Dooode, wtf.
    Min Hyorin thinks that she can get away with everything by using her so-called “luxury” nose. It looks freaking unnatural on an Asian.

    But, where’s the talent ?

  43. 43 KATE August 22, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    asians can hav that nose cuz
    i hav that kind of nose and its natural
    and it looks natural..

  44. 44 Wafflo October 3, 2008 at 11:14 am

    That’s freak, i totally love asians noses… no mather how much i paid for one my occidental face don’t match with one :O and asians are killing they’r beautiful factions whit surgery… just too freak.

  45. 45 fifi October 15, 2008 at 6:52 am

    That fake nose of hers is unnatural and disproportional !

  46. 46 mimi January 7, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    I seriously have her nose! I HATE it!!! I’m going to south korea in a few years to visit my husbands korean family, and I’m plaining on traiding it in for a flatter one. I’ll have to find a someone who’ll do it, and do it right, and i think korean doctors are good at it. I would gladly trade my nose in for a cute “botton” nose anyday, the high nose is my not what I consider beautiful, and I really don’t think she’s that pretty with that “luxery” nose. I wish I had my mother little nose, but no… I got my fathers nose. It’s just to funny how my nose looks like hers, I always got teased for it, and she is praised for it! I wish I could post a picture up to compare~ ^^ lol

  47. 47 ur mom July 12, 2009 at 12:19 pm

    its not super cute.
    it just doesnt fit her.
    i feel like its a big too big for her :p

    unnatural much ? :o


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