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"1. Contestants don&amp;#039;t have to live in or even be born in Korea to compete in Miss Korea. Cities with large ethnic Korean populations hold regional Miss Korea competitions, and the winners go on to compete in Korea. This year, the U.S. sent contestants from LA, NYC, Hawaii, and Seattle. Fun fact: Arden Cho, aka Kira Yukimura on Teen Wolf was Miss Korea Chicago in 2004 \u2014 and she hated it! Arden says of her time in Korea for the pageant: &amp;quot;Everyone said, &amp;#039;You need to lose weight. You need to have plastic surgery. You need to fix this, this, this\u2026&amp;#039;&amp;quot;  2. Pageants last about four weeks in Korea, compared to two weeks in the U.S. \u2026 But just because the contestants have more time doesn&amp;#039;t mean they take it easy. In the month leading up to the televised pageant, aspiring Miss Koreas take classes in subjects including makeup, hair, smiling, walking, posing, and dancing, and frequently have photo shoots. Their behavior during the month affects their scores in the pageant, and one former Miss Korea contestant said she lost points for tardiness, talking back, and sleeping in. 3. \u2026 During which security follows around contestants to make sure no one receives last-minute plastic surgery for &amp;quot;unfair advantages.&amp;quot; This includes when contestants go to the bathroom. Fashionista reports: Pageant lore had it that one year a contestant snuck into a restroom stall with her mother and a plastic surgeon in tow. She emerged, stitched up and looking brand new \u2014 thanks to a mysterious procedure, which the surgeon managed to complete in mere minutes.  So, get your surgery done before the pageant?  4. There&amp;#039;s a 20-episode K-drama series featuring the Miss Korea pageant. Appropriately titled Miss Korea. America got Miss Congeniality and Miss Congeniality 2, but Koreans have stretched the drama of pageantry to 20 hours of fun! And it has the cute Second Male Lead from Coffee Prince, which is enough reason to watch for me. In Miss Korea, Sun-Kyun Lee plays the president of a nearly bankrupt cosmetics company who convinces his former high school love interest, Yeon-Hee Lee, to enter the Miss Korea pageant and *~sAvE hIs CoMpAnY~* by endorsing his company&amp;#039;s Vivi Cream. Sort of shady, but let&amp;#039;s just go with it! 5. Contestants&amp;#039; weights as well as their chest, waist, and hip measurements are posted on the official Miss Korea website. \u2026  6. \u2026 Which legitimate news outlets later discuss. And I quote the Korea Herald: &amp;quot;Kim [Seo-Yeon Kim, winner of Miss Korea 2014] boasts her Western-style figure \u2015 she is 172.8 centimeters tall and weighs 52.4 kilograms.&amp;quot;  7. Contestants must sign a contract promising to remain celibate during the pageant. To be fair, Miss USA requires titleholders to remain single throughout their reign. But no one asks them not to do it. Follow Heeseung on Twitter. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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