The Chosun Ilbo is showing Paris Hilton resplendent in hanbok, navigating chopstick use and posing with Korean stars. I have to admit, as much as the thought baffles me the woman is rocking the hell out of that hanbok. Fail for the article: the second time 'hanbok' is mentioned it's misspelled as "handbook."
...I never ever thought I'd blog about Paris Hilton, let alone in a positive light but there you go. There is a first for everything.
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Now I know I've made it...I live in a city where Paris Hilton visited.
On another note, the word verification for this comment is "butless". Seems like an odd choice.
~giggles madly~. Alas, I have no control over what your word verification will be on any given day...or they would all be along those lines. :-D
heehee! i think s. korea may have just gotten (collectively) a bit dumber by association
~giggles~
That article is a couple years old, but she nevertheless turns up in the papers and magazines every now and again (she's a model/spokeswoman for FILA Korea). Last summer they started running her show on MTV and did a photoshoot with a bunch of Korean women dressed like her (pardon the plug):
http://briandeutsch.blogspot.com/2009/07/lets-hope-koreans-dont-become-stupid.html
Remarkable that a woman like Hilton is accepted here. A Korean celebrity does anything remotely wrong and s/he is shunned by the media and public here. Hell, when singers are even rumored to have sex tapes their careers are just about ruined.
@ Brian: No worries about the plug! I already read your blog but I hadn't read all of the archives. I didn't realize that it was an old article as the newspaper I pulled it from published it as 'new.'
I think that Western celebrity behavior is generally accepted as something they do as being strange foreigners...and thus held to a different standard of moral conduct. Granted, I think that if Hilton had sex tapes leaked and she had been with a Korean man (or god forbid, a woman) it would have been just as scandalous for her here.
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