Wait, isn’t Halloween over?
Actress Lee Hana takes on the persona of a Korean traditional ghost (long hair parted in the center and white skin). To complete the ghostly look, all she needs is a white hanbok….
Lee Hana is featured in the December 2008 issue of Marie Claire (Korea).
I like pale skin =)
Was I just first?
…I don’t feel any different…
Lmfao.
Pale skin = digusting.
Koreans need to stop trying to look white, you look asian no matter what the hell you do to yourself.
its called cultural difference
what looks disgusting to u might look pretty to ppl from a different culture, dont tell korea to stop doing something, when obviously u hav different tastes
antiboa youre such an ignorant. go away
@ sarai, :] *claps
i agree w/ loren, antiboa should be antikorean or something
gtfo, go to a blog that fits ur cultural tastes man, why r u hanging around a culture that sickens u?
I loveeeee super pale skin, and im Latino, with golden skin. (people think my skin is beautiful while i think pale skin is even more beautiful) ^^;
AntiBoA, y don’t you just go and tell black people to stop wearing their hairs in braids, or go tell Mexican people to stop eating Mexican food? Or go tell Eskimos to stop wearing parkas, or maybe tell japanese people to stop getting spiky hair cuts. Y be satisfied with shoving your own opinions down only one cultures throat?
lol
TO antiboa: A LOT OF KOREANS HAVE PALE SKIN. IT’S OUR SKIN COLOR, WHAT DO U WANT US TO DO ABOUT IT?! THE DARKER ASIANS ARE SOUTH EASTERN ASIANS THAT UR CONFUSING KOREANS WITH. IGNORANT.
AntiBoA, do you need help knowing what skin color koreans are?
Dumbass.
No one’s trying to persecute the tanner skins either, so get over it.
Lol if so many koreans have natural pale skin then the skin lightening market which is huge in Asia wouldn’t be….well huge. do the math moron.
I’m Japanese so trust me I know how dark you koreans are by the majority I mean, lol.
go go antiboa spread the word
hydroquinone (what most lightning creams have) is banned in japan. just for the record.
is that really Lee Hana… doesn’t even look like her… white skin…korean…really??…. lmao….
what i find so strange is alot of people who are pale skinned want to be darker skinned by getting a tan. the ones who are naturally tanned want to look pale. now that makes no sense. i say be happy with what you was born with.
hydroquinone is banned pretty much everywhere, but you know how much these Koreans hate themselves, they still buy those NON-FDA approved products, even the damn korean americans who know damn well very few skin lightening products are approved in the US. lol
All these self hating koreans do is screw white boys, bleach their hair, bleach their skin and obsess over any plastic asians lol…so sad. you guys really make Asians everywhere look pathetic.
that bag is from Tod’s!! gorgeous!!!
She does looks like a ghost……….
wth…..hydro isnt banned in the US ??? -_-
and japanese obssesed with being tanned o_o
She’s bland and the clothes are just as bland…..
IS that her ????
i love the bag !!!!!
Korean people have “white skin”
Michael Jackson has “white skin”
therefore… Michael Jackson is Korean!
bwahahahahaha…..
Japanese people are obsessed with tanning? maybe if you’re talking about ganguro girls, japanese people have the fairest skin in Asia so yeah some do have the luxury of tanning and having the tan fade, where as Koreans are stuck with their dark skin unless they bleach it.
And yes I do believe a certain percent of it is banned, although some creams that you can get from a dermatologist may contain like 2% of it.
The FDA isn’t going to approve any a high percentage.
Actually, dermatologists can give you 5% of hyrdro or more. you can buy up to 3% in any store….
And i know the ganguros, no im not talking about them. my opinion comes from what i see. NJ has a high population of both koreans and japanese, and from my experience koreans are always lighter than japanese. Japanese look tannish, even in the movies lol while krn look ghostly white.
IN MY OPINION.
all my korean friends are wayyy lighter than my japanese friends.
Um duh anyone who bleaches their skin and finds something that works is going to look pale, japanese aren’t obsessed with eyes and skin color like the koreans are so we do tan without acting like freaks over “omgggg color…omggg” lol.
Korean girls are ugly as hell regardless of skin color, with your monkey like noses, lol.
if people want to be fairer, its their dish
if people want to be darker, its their call as well.
its none of any one else’s business really, whatever people want to do with their skins.
funny is that if according to antiboa “pale skin = disgusting” and “japanese have the fairest skin in asia” and you said you’re japanese yourself… what kind of a point are you trying to make? :S idk.
i think just lay off and let people do whatever they want to - they are not mauling or hurting anyone else or something.
Pale and fair skin are too different things, In Korea you see alot of ugly pale skin bleached out Koreans, in Japan you see alot of naturally fair skin japanese beauties, and alot of exotic tanned girls, people have pride in Japan. =)
Skin bleaching isn’t natural, tanning is something that happens naturally unless you work really hard to prevent it.
Two*
antiboa i respect your opinion, while i dont agree with it.
Im not going to discuss this with someone as ignorant as you -_-
If you dislike (in your opinion->)korean ways and preferences so much, then go to another site :]
I think she looks pretty
This is ridiculous…a lot of Koreans are naturally pale. Explain why my boyfriend is paler than me, as is his entire family. . . ..
Don’t feed the troll.
AntiBoA, i don’t think koreans hate themselves, but i’m sure you hate koreans.
so show us that the japanese have pride. stop acting jealous!
I want that grey dress she’s wearing in the first picture but sadly I don’t wear dresses. :\
Mm… AntiBoA, I don’t know if you’ve ever actually lived in Japan, but from my experience there, there are more people with dyed/bleached hair than there are in Korea. Also, take a good look through Japanese celebrities; you see a definite increase in the amount of stars with dyed hair than you see in Korea.
Japan’s been the biggest with its love for copper-toned hair (slightly orange-ish brown), and it hasn’t faded. Korea, on the other hand, has recently (since a few years ago) changed its preference to dark black hair, paired with super pale skin (it’s kind of funny, if you look at the ulzzang pictures, they go from having dyed hair a while back ago, to all having dark black hair now with super white skin).
You talk a lot like you know a lot about Japan…
お前は本当に日本をよく知っているか？日本語やできるか？ もちろん、日本にはターンを好気な人がたくさんあるんだけどね、日本は韓国より大きだろう？
If you couldn’t understand what I wrote, I will just take it that you don’t really know what you’re talking about when you act like you’re from Japan. You might be able to convince some of the people who’ve never been there, but I have a pretty good feeling that you probably know a bit less than me, who’s lived there for a while.
lmao antiboa just got schooled, tahts what happens when u try to act like u know something u dont really kno
*claps for izumi*
izumi that crazy boa is the best fan
arn’t japanese islanders? chinese and japanese have the same skin tone and looks. especially the the taiwanese islanders
I know nothing about that cultural differences, BUT the girl is God D**N beautiful whatever her hair style is or her skin color. I think korean women are the most beautiful in Asia.
***************Korea Rocks***************
Lee Ha Na looks very foreign. But she’s really pretty ^_^
Ewwww….
i didn’t see that antiboa coming around here anymore
Goodjob Izumi
I bet he/she is now looking at the dictionary trying to translate what you just wrote pwhahaha.
lol so he was pretending to be japanese? He’s probably a chinese trying to start shyt between Korea and Japan.
And not like this actress (I don’t know her to be honest) is a western-wannabe or something. It’s just the make up for a photoshoot, not like what she usually does everytime she goes out so stop that non sense argument of generalization about Korean women. It’s highly offensive.
she actually looks good
I think Ms. Lee Hana is very pretty. She is stylish and she looks very classy. Does she have mixed blood in her? I’m just wondering because she looks like an Italian to me. Anyway, her skin color matches her beauty. Is being pale skinned the same as fair skinned? Can anyone clarify this for me? And to think my brother is a dermatologist, I cannot believe why I never thought about asking him about skin tones. But then again I’ve never come across this topic until now. Why not call him? He’s in Texas and very busy.
AntiBoA: statistically speaking, Japanese skin tends to have a lesser yellow tone than the other east asians but realistically speaking, your Miss Japan co-ordinator (that French woman) has mentioned time and again in her interviews about the fact that her contestants have always wanted their skins to be whiter not darker and she had to deal with those notions.
Koreans with wanting or having whiter skin is not all to the notions of wanting to be WHITE (Caucasian). Unless you are suggesting to us all that the historical paintings (with a lot of Chinese influences) of Korean Women were all WHITE CAUCASIANS THEN or even with the Japanese influence of the 20th century (their Meiji history and the invention of the double eyelid surgery
)….
(BUT YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT DIDNT YOU?)
Lee Hana looks gorgeous in here. I’m currently sporting my hair like that too, it’s just layered in the front.
the face complexion and the long hair,
PERFECT TO BE A REAL GHOST
This woman looks DEAD!! You know…like the makeup they put on dead people in a coffin. She needs to take off the white make up and look more natural. If that is her natural skin (and I doubt that it is), then her face is going to look like a freaking cracked dried up road by the time she’s 35. It probably already does look cracked around the eyes if you do a close up on her face while she smiles.
I agree with Popseoul…she looks like a ghost.
Sarah.C hundreds of years ago have nothing to do with Asians today. =)
Esp. when you see KOREANS fawning over any white-anything, half breeds, full breeds, anything white to them is just ‘good’. It’s part of the reason Go ara is famous at all, lord know she ain’t that cute, and can’t act for sh*t she has lighter eyes, although full koreans but koreans love that feature of hers. =)
Oh and I suppose I should add onto the eyelid surgery and the skin lightening, with the ever so popular nose job. And we all know you aren’t getting eyelid surgery and nose jobs to look ‘more asian’ lol.
ewww
lolololol @ the intra-Asian debacle in Popseoul. AntiBoa is one bitter Asian.
Lol no I’m just a rare asian who can actually tell the truth instead of telling themselves that millions of east asians are getting eyelid surgery and nose jobs and bleaching their skin for fun LOL.
My people are so delusional.
Good create a blog about it.
Nah I’ll just stay here and annoy people here =D
But why Popseoul of all places? I’m sure there are million of Asian empowerment sites out there.
While I do agree that Korean culture is becoming too obsessive over their physical traits and are being too influenced by foreign beauty standards (AntiBoa), please do not be racially offensive. We all come from the same start, your ancestors are ours. And yes it may be very different today, but we are all still Asians. Korea may have this corrupt culture blinding their views, but Japan has its plastic surgery history too, its just getting more hot in Korea. I am actually Korean and I have really pale skin and I don’t have a monkey nose. :]
Don’t judge people on stereotypes and based on mere race, there is no race and distinctions and there shouldn’t be. Everyone is different. I think, no offense that all of you who were arguing over such trivial and narrow minded issues, should just broaden your minds more. Lets not accuse each other of how we look, you guys are not in Kinder garden and its not the colonial times.
i completely agree with “figure it out”
scary..a bit..
i tought, pale skin always was considered beatiful in Asia. it’s not like koreans (or japanese) want to look european..
nowdays everyone can care about his/her skin, but only rich people (women) did it some time ago.
ANTIBOA: If you think that history has no relevance to how things are today, you are truly ignorant. Dumbass!
FYI, pale skin represented prestige and wealth back in the day. It never represented “wanting to be Cauasian.”
Caucasian*
Beauty is coveted universally and it is entirely subjective. Simply put, People do things because they want to be beautiful. If your going to say everything and anything that isn’t natural (such as eyelid surgery, skin bleaching or tanning, hair dying) is in effect a result of wanting to look like another race, then people of all ethnicities are guilty of this. That includes Japanese people “wanting to look Caucasian” because they dye their hair lighter and their natural color is not so. Of course, I don’t see it this way.
AntiBoA, HISTORY has alot of relevance.
^Sophie pointed out the pale skin quite clearly to you.
The nose and eyes (questionable about the double eyelids) but eyes that are big as ‘grapes’, were mentioned in old korean poems and it was something that was to be desired by men.) My mum is Korean and she remembers how people would measure the female beauty to “Yang Qui Bi” “Is she as beautiful as “Yang Qui Bi?”" (a common saying then 19702-1980s)
You obviously do not know much of Asian History of beauty let alone even of GO ARA. Go Ara has been on the dead end of the stick for a couple months as Korean Netizens have been critizing her for being in magazines too long (not alot think she’s PRETTY. THEY DON’T LIKE HER SURGERY.) CHECK OUT NAVER and not enough for her acting and seriously she doesn’t fit in the top 5 best female actresses for cf’s (commercial films) netizens choice.
One thing I would agree would you to a certain extent is there Western Influences of beauty .. YES… but to a large extent. NO… UNLESS YOU CLAIM THESE FEATURES ARE DOMINATELY WHITE and you cannot forget the history aspects.
*1970s-1980s…
What antiBOA also FAILS to get is that eyelid surgery isn’t necessarily about looking caucasian (after all, about 1/3 of NE Asians have double eyelids, as do the majority of SE Asians, Arabs, Africans, etc.).
Having large eyes has always been prized in women in Asia (there are ancient Chinese poems praising the beauty of women w/ “bright” eyes) - we humans are biologically geared to find large eyes as being feminine/cute (which is why we so easily see babies and puppies as being cute/endearing).
Since antiBOA likes to direct his vitriol at Koreans, I wonder if he would do to the same to his fellow Japanese?
After all, double eyelid surgery is quite popular in Japan as well - and furthermore, the Japanese procedure for double eyelids creates a more pronounced “ROUNDING” of the eyes - which is why Zainichi entertainer Ayumi Lee/Ito has that Japanese exaggerated round-look to her eyes.
Also, there are the Japanese who don’t consider themselves Asian and like to claim their having caucasian blood via the Ainu (which is ironic considering how poorly the Ainu have been treated in Japan).
>Having large eyes has always been prized in women in Asia
i’m not sure.. i have read that mothers advized their sons to choose wifes with small eyes, flat faces and short legs in Korea))
but it was many-many years ago))
though i agree that double eyelids were considered beautiful in Asia for very long time, like forever))
That’s BS.
@ Antiboa
Monkey noses? Way to describe yourself by using an American derogatory term. I smell a weeaboo. You aren’t fooling anyone. Try harder though maybe you’ll get your golden ticket.
@ bdean
Don’t forget about Plastic Boy(Gackt) and the eye glue/eye tape.
???
IS THAT REALLY HER?
what is this? a twilight-inspired photoshoot?
the modeling thing is not working… something is missing… i can’t point it out
Antiboa u really have to quit
i think she looks gorgeous!
She’s a pretty girl, but in this photoshoot she looks scary!
lol
Lols… I think the title of this post should change.
Seeing fair-complexioned skin as being attractive has been the norm in Korea since a long long time ago, even before Western culture got introduced. Not just in Korea - ever since ancient Chinese dynasties, most Asian countries have found very fair-skinned women as being beautiful (and this was ever before they saw a Caucasian). As someone else mentioned, if you look at historical portrayals (poetry, art, etc.), ideal females are expressed as having very fair skin.
It’s the same thing in India too - fair skinned individuals have been thought of as being attractive (or rather, I should say, fair skin has been thought of as being an attractive trait). An Indian friend of mine told me that the idea stems from upper-class families not having to work in labor on the fields and stuff, so that they generally have a fairer complexion since they stay indoors. Kind of like how old England found obese women to be attractive, because that signified that they were of wealth.
Plus, finding tanned skin as being attractive is historically very recent even within Europe. Before the tan-fad hit the fashion industry, Europe was no different - if you look into their historical arts, you also find “fair skinned maidens” as being idealized.
So… I’m just kind of shocked that AntiBoA is jumping to say that the only reason why Koreans like fair-skin is because they are Caucasian-wannbes… I thought he was pretty thorough with doing research and whatnot on the other articles with his evidence on the history of Rock’n'Roll and whatnot… I guess he just flat-out embarrassed himself on this thread; if he did a similar kind of research, he probably wouldn’t have said half of those things he did.
@ bdean
lol dont even credit antiboa as being japanese
he is either a wannbe japanese or something cuz he seems incapable of even understanding what the actual person up there who wrote japanese said
its like hes trying so patheticaly tryign to play a devil’s advocate or somethign, except a devil’s advocate in a debate is supposed to actually ring up good points that u can debate, not just bigoted narrowminds boiled straight from hate broth, he’s more of a clown of popseoul than anything, cuz i think if hes trying to entertain all of us w/ his little posts, he’s doign a good jbo
A lot of koreans have pale skin.
~Pity Lee Hana being a victim of this so called asian wars…~
Grow up guys..attacking one pix and using it to relate to skin type, one’s country is a total childish act…
While antiboa is likely one of those insecure Japanese or some Japanophile white guy - whichever he is, he is nonetheless a MORON and TOOL.
Here is the REALITY to antiboa’s deluded fiction.
“Esp. when you see KOREANS fawning over any white-anything, half breeds, full breeds, anything white to them is just ‘good’.”
Actually, Japan is generally regarded as the most “white-worshipping” country in Asia - w/ WAY MORE white Western celebrities and models in advertising & commercials than in Korea.
And go to any expat site - white male posters constantly whine about the “poor” treatment they get in Korea while they see Japan as a haven.
“japanese aren’t obsessed with eyes and skin color like the koreans are so we do tan without acting like freaks over “omgggg color…omggg” lol.”
As stated before, Japanese women generally are just as into having pale skin (hence the popularity of skin-whiteners in Japan) as the rest of Asia (now, this doesn’t necessarily mean that Japanese women want to be “white” - after all, white women don’t have actually have white-clored skin and are actually peach-complexioned).
As far as the ganguro girls - they get the dark tans and bleach/dye their hair blonde, red, etc. in REACTION/rebellion to the beauty norms of Japan.
And let’s not forget anime/manga w/ the large, round eyes which started in Japan. While many Westerners (including Western Asians) have mistaken that as a sign of the Japanese wanted to look caucasian/have the large round eyes - in actuality, it was the result of Japanese animators copying the style of early Disney cartoons where the animated animals had large, espressive eyes (large eyes allow for better expression of emotions).
Nonetheless, the Japanese procedure for double-eyelid surgery results in a more pronounced (and unnatural-looking) round-look as seen in zainichi Ayumi.
And lastly we all know how North Koreans are taught to hate the West and (except for the elite) have little or no exposure to Western media - and yet, when Hyori met w/ one of NKorea’s top female entertainer, Hyori, sporting a light-medium tan was noticeably DARKER.
Lee Hana looks and is stunningly beautiful.