As you may already know, Koreans are sensitive to the size of their faces since the national consensus is that a smaller face equates to a beautiful face. This assertion is absolutely absurd.
However we are reminded that some people still think that way. For example, in Song Hye-kyo’s new commercial (CF) for Nintendo DS, she exclaims in a cute way, “oh, the head is so big!” of the snowman from the game she is playing. A snow man! Now snowmen are subjected to discrimination against face size.
I guess that snowman can never be a star in Korea.
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It’s true, a smaller face/headed person is usually better looking. Big faced, big headed Koreans aren’t exactly good looking, unfortunately it’s a common trait.
Hahaha! I find this amusing.
such a cute cf
i like the house she’s in..with the big windows with the view of the snow…
oi…i really don’t think she meant to degrade all snowmen :S It’s a cute cf
wow this house reminds me of the one in full house
It just reminds me of a more “azn” version of the Nicole Kidman Nintendo commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Eq07FpQ3PY
…hmm.. okay.
i think shes overrated too lol.
Cute cf!
aaah… don’t know what to say about the head size thing :/
Awww reminds me of Ms Shin/Shin Jung Hwan who gets teased so uch coz of his head.. LOL.
But SHK is the reason why I want a nintendo CF sooooo
much !! She’s cute in the cf`s LOL
I mean why I want a nintendo DS ! haha
um…i dont even think she meant it that way
i think it was more like,
“haha, its head is so big…its funny looking”
b/c it was….disproportional…-_-;;
WHAT? How is that making fun of big heads? The head on the snowman was bigger than its body
Popseoul is really aggravating me
I don’t think that she’s making fun of the big head being ugly, but that the head is too big compared to the body (which was tiny. watch the cf again
dude she’s just saying the head is too big because a snow man is meant to have a body bigger than it’s head.
i think ur crazy, its her line, not like she really thinks so…lol btw i have a huge head im not offended, SHG is soo freakin BEAUTIFUL
…>.> I would say that too….
and I’m not korean….
the head is just too big on the snowman
I’m sure you’re just trying to be funny, but really….stop it. It’s making you look dumb. and look at it’s body compared to it’s head! I would say it has a big head too, because it does! and the cf is really cute! it actually did make me want a DS O.o
I guess this one just goes over my head. I don’t get it
hahaha you asians are hilarious
I didn’t watch the CF and I am guess its AC:WW (Animal Crossing Wild World) =)
awww the cf was so cute!
She’s extremely overrrated!
I will go on record and back up Popseoul 110% here. If I have to hear one more Korean commentsuch as “Oh, you have such a small face - go to the front of the picture” I think I will go insane. I agree that she isn’t making fun of the snowman having a big head but I believe Popseoul are just drawing a parallel. One more thing, what Korean lives in a house like that? It’s beautiful, well-planned, spacious and has a large garden.
^rich koreans
I don’t think it had anything to do with the whole small-faces-are-more-attractive thing. It’s true Koreans believe that and it’s too bad that they do, but you can’t possibly use this to back that up. Anyone, even those who oppose the idea, would have said or thought the same.
I usually don’t comment on posts but I must say this quote:
“I guess that snowman can never be a star in Korea.”
Had me rolling on the floor! So funny, thanks for making my evening!
hahaha she looks so cute playing that game
i’ve actually played that game before hahaha
it got pretty addicting after awhile, even if i didn’t do much. xD
but i agree about korea’s obsession with small faces. i don’t really get it, but they seem to love it. ^^;
Haha, it’s a cute commercial. I can’t believe that of all the things you can think of as beautiful, the one thing you can’t change [head/face size] is what’s most important to so many Koreans.
Aigoooo,, I saw the caps for this CF but didn’t really think that much. But the actual CF is so kyoot!
she’s not wearing much makeup it seems
Yeah she is a bit overrrated but I didn’t really see a problem with the CF. but the whole quest for a smaller face thing is quite side.
Once again, a lack of idea to criticize something.
Well, the writers like criticizing Korean artists, then I like criticizing the writers.
Why don’t you just post some pictures or videos without saying anything unrelated? You need to take some writing lessons to keep yourself from being at the same level as the artists you’re criticizing.
Looking forward to reading your next random criticism.
Popseoul is a victim of the very thing she criticizes; how the media exaggerates small things to make them seem better or worse than they actually are. Hypocrite.
woah.. song hye kyo’s cute.. ^^
omg!she’s so cute!!
haha, but i do think that ppl with small faces look better than those with big faces..maybe cause that’s how i was brought up..
I love song hye kyo <3
i guess you have no other news to tell us
Aren’t you reading a bit too deep into this. -0-
usually big heads are more cute, esp in games haha
but wow she looks really young here, isnt she like in her 30s?
Haha , that CF was adorable !! ^O^
I also really like that house , with the big windows !! *____*!!
Interesting logic.
So whatever stars are paid to say in a COMMERCIAL equates to what they actually feel about a subject.
C’mon Popseoul, you can do better! Use your brains for once instead of making up crap.
she was so funny in full house. omg!!!!! it’s just a game peoplez.
lol people..
Dont be too emotional..
Popsseoul only use a cynical topic that is nothing realted to her personality. It is a cynical phrase of the culture realtive of a beauty and try to realteit with the commercial..Try to read without emotionally effected when it comes to the things that we shoudlnt feel emotional..Well, let have a happy day!
is the game for like a 6 year old? so boring
“A snow man! Now snowmen are subjected to discrimination against face size.I guess that snowman can never be a star in Korea.”
People: try to read between the box and think out of the mind. Among all the others blog of Korean Pop, Ppseoul is the one that I found has real art in writing in whaever method she used either it is cynical, sarcastic or direct yet in a fair and equal judgment.
Try to learn art of reading.lol.
Haha it is never about the girl up there or a the snowman.
It is trying to stress out about Korean culture that find small faces is a real beauty and try to relate with the issues of this blog which is Korean Pop and nonetheless we have the CF all the way.
poor snowman.
umm popseoul’s writing has a deeper meaning into it. try really understanding it.. umm i think the term that they called it in class is “close reading”.
i hope song hye kyo will promote korean food and culture to the world some day. With a beautiful girl like that, she needs to be an ambassador to market korean food.
koreans need to clean up their country and make korean food popular.
LOLOL….. poor snowman~~~ >< but man…. everything about humans are the same… yet we judge each other on the 0.0001% differences in us, being the physical appearance…….oh well XD
ahh.. she’s too cute to be true..
what’s wrong with big heads?
What about kang ho dong?
poor snowman.
I didnt blame her…she only said her lines!!
Actually I have big heads and wide face, typical asian ^___^
I found ,that small face is pretty, really amusing (haha)
Fortunately, i dont live in Korea… Most of the media in Korea often judge ppl by their appearance, which is not fair…because it’s not what we (or me..^^”) want to have big head or typical asian face…
O…well…hope in the future (or now!!) Korean media will be more couraging ppl (esp. women) to appreciate wht they already have…
You really cannot blame people for thinking that Popseoul is attacking Song HyeKyo when they give a title “Song Hye-kyo makes fun of big heads” for the entry. It could be very misleading. Actually, the write-up IS misleading. I honestly don’t see the connection between the issue of Koreans having something against big heads with what SHK said on the CF. It’s not like she is making fun of the snowman for having a big head. She is stating a fact: the snowman on the game has a big head. And as we know - unless you have never seen a snowman before - snowmen normally have heads way smaller than their bodies.
If people need to learn the art of reading, then Popseoul should learn the art of writing something that doesn’t mislead.
@ ginger vitality:
Fine, so Popseoul is trying to relate two different things with something.
Small face is better than big face (As perceived by Korean society?).
The snow man has big head (Because the head was replaced with the bigger snow ball that makes it bigger than the body. SO it’s not “a normal snowman with big face”).
Ineteresting? Indeed, that a famous blog Popseoul can come up with that logic.
And I guess Popseoul writers are laughing in front of their computer to see how many people are arguing about whatever subject they wrote.
Seems like Shenyuepop has clearer and more objective style.
This writer is trying so damn hard, she/he/IT looks dumb. Poor writer! Nothing else to extract your “brain” on? Sheesh..!
On a positive note,SHG is so cute in this CF, she doesn’t look 26. Love her!
Man, I love the language, and I love the men, but holy sh*t..Korean’s are just as shallow as Americans.
is SHK thought to have a large face? she kinda does, to me, but she’s still so freakin, hilariously gorgeous!!!
but now that you mention it, i hate snowmen!
this blog and all the responses are funny.
i hope you’re only talking about the females or else you people don’t know your aesthetics. it’s a known fact that men with literally large heads were chosen to become movie stars. clark gable, cary grant, fairbanks jr., me, and many more. men wth small heads look like snakes. there is someone in a korean boyband that looks like a snake because he has small features and head. i don’t remember the band though. maybe you can give names of a few snakey looking men. women with large heads though are not pretty. have you seen my daughter rumer?
omo so cute!
i love her so much T_____T
and she is so NOT overrated!! she really is the most beautiful person ever
those who think she’s overrated, you guys should see her up close! she’s just so angelic & flawless
her head isn’t particularly tiny though, but she still is the most gorgeous thing ever
I hate the shape of my face. I envy those with small faces =P
I sometimes wonder if the Korean girls I see on the streets had plastic surgery before. There are times when their faces are so small (did I mention they are completely acne free and their skin is super white?) that I can’t believe it’s even possible. For instance, there’s a Korean girl working at my store and her face is the smallest I have ever seen! I have small hands, and I am pretty sure most of my hand can cover her face. What in the world is up with that?
i like Song and i think poseoul is overreacted but this cf is very similar to Nicole’s
she’s too cute!!!!!!!
actually, I heard Vanna White was chosen specifically because she had a large face.
Blah! A boring, OVERATED celebrity.
snooooooooze!
Its like
the reason why Koreans say
smaller heads are better
isn’t because its so much prettier or something.
It’s because on TV, it look normal and it looks like a celeb. face/head in a way but if a person with a normal sized head or even a bit large-sized head, on TV, they won’t look proportioned and their head will look extremely huge.
That’s why most celebs in Korea have a small face and also
to be honest, a small face + normal eyes + normal nose[not super flat tho. buhh asian nose(Y)] = beautiful.
And im korean so like.. don’t say that’s not how koreans think .Lol But people think people with POINTY POINTY noses are like awesome-ly celebrity. Uhh no. Only the crazy koreans think so.
I personally like my nose. Its not super pointy but it STANDS, its small and its not super flat. Lol :]
Peace out<3
geez guys calm down..
it was in the script, and besides the snowman’s head was really big for its body.. i would say the same thing..
did some of of you really saw the cf??
and by the way.. popseoul has this thing for everythign and everyone close to rain.. hahaha
All you dumbasses talking smack about P-Seoul: If you don’t like what the writers have to say; take your brokeass somewhere else. All you fools tripping about “this” and I don’t like “that” need to just stop making your life so god damn miserable and just don’t come here. So DUMB some of you ppl.
@akakaze: Well, i liked your point of view tough i have to read it a few times to differinciate between HEAD and FACE.^-^ and I like the fact that ypu mention people
Well, actually I have learn skills of reading as well skills of writing not that important to mention here except that what I been observed here, PopSeoul used a cynical, sarcasm and critical way of writing. Yes! She write her topic in a provocative ( not misleading ) way that will invite 1000 speculation and assumption. But that is a blogger or a writers of rumors is all about. Still, it is better because she is still equal in her writing tough not fully satifying by most of us. Thati see in my humble opinons.
Tough it is not i agreed on everything in her writing and it is not a perfect there is something that the readers didnt satisfied but that make remakr question. We disagrred her, we didnt contradict with her, we didnt satisfied by what she writing, we think she didnt do her homework, bla..bla..bla. but why we are still visiting her blog and commenting her post? That is because tough we always critizing- well it is ok if it is on decent manner and objective not biased emotionally-, say this and that., I didnt found one that Popseoul will attack us again.
That is the stronger point that eventough people didnt like everything what she write and satisfied with the posts entries peoples like this blog.
It is like two way communication, she wrote what she want tough it is not correct 100% or satisfying for some pepole, we as the visitor, get what we want to gulity pleasure of reading and satisfaction on giving an opinon or being opinionted.
If you say that, I respected your view * Bow down. What I read is “Song Hye-kyo make fun of big heads of a snowman in CF; that a phrase of bighead persay is not a pretty structure of a face in Korean culture.
Then, it is merely in my humble opinons, people could differ in objective way. I respected the blog owner and what we have here is what we get.
Sorry typo: we CONTRADICT. I have to learn skill of typing tough. I’m a humanbeing that is has lots of flaw.^_%
Well, we said that she has to learn skill or writing BUT we also has to learn skill of reading a cynical blog with provocative topics ( read between the lines ). Well, we are the vistoirs of this ‘house’ by the way. What should we ask more. Being different is normal but in objective and decent way.
lol i found it’s amusing. People are being too sensitive. I think it was just a mere statement that SHK made ( in accordance with the script) in the CF. I guess being a small head is a requirement in korean movie industry but it doesn’t mean it’s beautiful. As most you guy can see i can fine tone of beautiful hollywood celebs that have big head like angelina jolie, kate hudson, nicole kidman… and they don’t have such stupid surgery to reduce their faces. Btw, big head means more brain lol
Hwahahahahaha…
But its the fact that the snowman’s head was twice bigger than its body in the game… Of course she would say that…
Geez ppl are being OVER SENSITIVE…
Hey, STOP talking about my BIG HEAD. You are all so mean. Next you’ll be talking about my carrot nose and twig arms. Can’t we all just get along?
“I guess that snowman can never be a star in Korea.”
haha i laughed at that! cute snowman
and the comment above my previous comment, HAHA! ^^^^
WTF! Hye-Kyo didn’t mean it THAT way. The character put a head larger than the snowman’s body on. Obviously, that would make it “too big.”
Actually snow men are quite cute with their big heads.
all korean celebs have pretty big heads except for super junior,dbsk,and snsd.
lol ure so retarded this has nothing to do with Koreans being senstive to how big their heads are..
It’s just unbalanced isn’t it? When ure head is bigger then the body?
*haha* The title got me here and all I got was snowmen XD She looks cute tho
heeeeeeY….what’s the big deal of BIG HEAD!? It doesn’t matter if you had it and as long as you can carry it anywhere it’s okey.
song hye kyo is overrated b/c ppl keep saying she’s a “natural beauty” but she is not. she got a plastic bridge. well, that’s a lot less than other korean celebs, but it doesn’t change the fact that she’s gone under the knife. kim tae hee is the one who is all natural.
anyway, why would anyone want to have a tiny head? only tiny ppl have tiny heads, like song hye kyo. she’s a midget, so her head would be tiny. i’d rather be tall and sexy and have a bigger head.
haha. well, any face bigger than the person’s body is too big
You very beatiful and smart….
I love you Song Hye-kyo
Does Popseoul understand Korean?
Yes its stupid that many Koreans equate beauty with a small face.
However, in this Commercial, the Statement was taken out of context. The actress was just referring to the fact that she made a weird snowman. Not that it was attractive or not.
The classical snowman has a body graduating from small on top to big on bottom.
Song just made one with a large head on accident. Thats all she was referring to!
Popseoul really should be more deliberate with the things she posts.
she very beatiful
i love you Song Hye-kyo
i want to see your drama, songhyekyo and jeongjihoon
The CF is worthless!
bt i dont criticized Song Hye Kyo for that!
she not overrated!
bt i notice something her…kinda fishy!
U guys have notice something POPSEOUL always come up with nonsense thread against Song Hye Kyo. I think they hate her
dont know y. and it sounds sucks!
For every single person who hates her there is 10 people who loves her… and im one of the 10th bleeh!
oh, she’s pretty. i like her.
but why on earth did she make fun of big head? for her short frame, i don’t consider the size of her head or face small either!
oh…she is so cute……*_*