Do you admire Korean beauties and their overall performance in world beauty pageants? If so, you are not alone! There are thousands of Korean beauties who compete in the world's top beauty pageants, and many admire them. Here are some interesting facts about Korean beauties. In addition to the usual information about beauty pageants, you'll find some interesting statistics about Korea's beauty pageants.

Miss Daegu 2013: Studies show that the winners of the Miss Daegu 2013 Korean Beauties / World Beauty Pageants competition are likely to be interested in studying, volunteering, and performing other endeavors worthy of their title. While the beauty pageants may look similar, the reality is often far different, the wonders of the modern beauty industry notwithstanding.

Consider this: Some 2021 Miss Korea pageants actually received some negative attention due to what seemed like "similar head shots." However, the contestants were quick to defend themselves, blaming Photoshop and makeup for their somewhat similar appearances. The reality was more interesting, however, and the photos show how the pageants are actually different. Undoubtedly, a common trait among the contestants is an attractive figure; there's, however, a certain variety in the beauty's admirable physical structure.

Miss Korea: The 69th edition of Miss Korea & World Beauty Pageants will be held on 14 December in London. The contest started in 1957 and is sponsored by the Hankook Ilbo newspaper. The pageant attracts fifty-seven candidates, with the top seven automatically qualifying for the semi-finals. The first pageant was called "International Pageant of Pulchritude" and was held in 1926.

In addition to the usual interview and judging rounds, Miss Korea contestants have to write and submit a complex essay. They have to go through intense screening rounds and interviews, which delve into academic and global affairs. The process takes some four months to complete. The winners of the pageants then go on to represent their countries at the Miss World and Miss Universe pageants. In the meantime, they're free to compete at the Teen pageant as well.

Miss Universe: The world is usually fascinated by Korea's beauty pageants, but what is the difference between the Korean pageant and those held in other countries? The answer may surprise you. As already hinted, the 2013 Miss Korea pageant featured many women who resembled each other. The majority of contestants had long, lean bodies, narrow noses, flat bottoms, and round tops. But what makes these women special? We need to consider the pageant history.

The Miss Korea beauty pageant first began in 1957, merely four years after the Korean War. The sponsoring organizations were eager to hold a big festival. This would prove that Korea was rising again. Later, colour television was introduced in the 1950s, and local entertainment companies were looking for pretty women to become television stars. This meant a large audience- and thousands of hopeful contestants- would line up on stage, intent on becoming the first Miss Korea; they all aimed at the same thing.

The Miss Korea beauty pageant has an undertone of beauty and conformity. Although Korea is the only Asian country with such pageants, its theme is essentially about Korean beauty standards. It also emphasizes the diversity in body structure. The Miss Korea pageant has undertones of competition, conformity, and academic opportunity. As a result, it's difficult to see why Korean women wouldn't want to compete in such a competition.

Miss International: Miss International has been a long-running beauty pageant that dates back to 1960. It's an international beauty competition for women aged 19-30. The event features two contest platforms: Evening Gown and Fun Fashion. Contestants are allowed to choose which platform they would like to compete on. The pageant has an impressive list of past winners; these include Miss Korea Seo Ye-jin and Miss Japan Seo Yu-na. In the past, Miss Korea has contested the title in the Big Four international beauty pageants but has never won it. In the recent past, Korea hasn't sent delegates to the Miss International competition held in Japan.

So, the history of the Korean beauty pageantry is both interesting and intriguing. Undoubtedly, Korean women still rank among the most beautiful women in the world.

HMVOD Limited just announced the appointment of Mr. Park Chung Min, as the executive director of the Company. Mr. Park, current CEO at Lionheart Entertainment CEO, is a South Korean lyricist, composer, producer, and record executive. He is also one of the founding members and former CEO of CUBE Entertainment, the 5th largest K-Pop Entertainment company in Korea. Joining HMVOD, he is set to replicate his success in Asia and go beyond it.

Mr. Park's passion for music began early as he became a K-Pop producer in 1997. In 2005, Mr. Park founded his own company Music Cube Inc., the first music publishing company in Korea. As one of the founding members of CUBE Entertainment Inc., Mr. Park joined the company as the director of Planning and Strategy in 2006, became Vice President in 2011, and finally as CEO in 2012. Mr. Park also had a major role in successfully listing CUBE Entertainment on KOSDAQ on April 9, 2015, KOSDAQ: 182360.

Mr. Park successfully trained popular artists including male-soloist Rain, 4minute, Beast, 2AM, BTOB, Hyuna, G.NA, and CLC. Successfully released many hit songs such as Hot Issue, Crazy, Fiction, On Rainy Days, Missing you, Bubble Pop!, Black & White, Eighteen, etc.. These songs have achieved high hit rate on major platforms like YouTube, Apple Music, and Spotify.

In Nov 2021, Disney+ under The Walt Disney Co. (NYSE:DIS) was officially launched in HK and has been developing its expansion strategy by making more classic HK movies available on its platform. HMVOD always stands out from the market by being one step ahead of competitors. HMVOD has long been placing the emphasis on getting the licenses to make most, if not all, of the HK movies available on its platform. It is by far an OTT platform having the largest numbers of HK movies available including classic Bruce Lee's, Jackie Chan's, Chow Yun-fat's and Stephen Chow's movies.

The appointment of Mr. Park has also showcased HMVOD's abilities to be a market leader. Korean film industry played a key role on, with successful movies like My Sassy Girl, Train to Busan as well as Squid Game, capturing audiences all over the world. The Korean movie industry continued to grow over the last decade. Korean movies are highly perceived globally, and growing into the mainstream media instead of being a niche segment. Mr. Park was responsible for curating, market trend analysis, discovering potential actors, artists, singers, and providing professional training with the platform. He is particularly strong in discovering, training, planning, managing, record distribution, concert promotion, and introducing artists internationally. Mr. Park will definitely replicate this success and bring HMVOD one step forward to become the next Netflix in the world.

With audiences consuming more content at home via OTT devices, the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic positively impacted the OTT landscape. This is likely to accelerate the growth of this format. Active OTT companies in the markets today include Netflix, Inc (NASDAQ: NFLX), fuboTV Inc. (NYSE: FUBO), Roku, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROKU) and HMVOD (8103.HK). With the relatively high market value of Netflix, fuboTV and Roku, it is not a surprise to see the market value of HMVOD to grow double in the near future.

With K-pop conquering the world by storm, it's only natural that fans are wildly enjoying this popular Korean music. There are some great K-indie musicians to watch this year. Top of the game is Youra, a singer-songwriter whose calm, dreamy voice can be heard on smash songs like "Can I Love?" The musician has carved a niche for herself in the music industry and the fashion world. To illustrate, she partnered with Seoul-based street labels like As Mischief and Why Not Us. Next is Keumbee, who is well-known for her cheerful voice, and EXN, who masterfully juggles multiple music genres.

EXN: EXN, like many other breakout musicians, began her career in 2017 by uploading songs on SoundCloud. The artist has gained lots of attention for her distinct voice, which crosses the line between singing and rapping. She's also noted for her musical style, which mixes several rhythms rather than a single genre. In 2021, the 22-year-old released her debut EP, [QQQQQ]; it had six tracks, five of which posed some pertinent questions to the audience. The EP completes with the song "EXN'S ANSWER." Since the singer studied design in high school, she now writes, composes songs, and creates album covers. EXN has a pleasantly creative nature, which is why she enjoys sketching and composing music; this led to her drawing all the animation featured in her music video for "Scared Straight."

Jue: Jue is a renowned R&B singer who debuted in 2018 with her smash single, "Call Me Back." Despite the fact that she has only released singles thus far, she's already well-known for her funky tracks like"Salvia" and "Happy Ending." Her 2021 hit "Lucid Dream," which she co-produced with Hookuo, has received much appreciation for its retro-inspired feel.

Keumbee: Despite making her debut during the pandemic, Keumbee's first album, I can't believe it's not butter! has amassed a sizable fan base. Top of the album is "908," one of the musician's previous singles, which was massively included in TV ads. To create her unique style, the musician mixes her experience in jazz music with sparkling disco sounds.

Suran- Shin: Su-ran (born July 15, 1986) is a South Korean singer who also goes by the stage names Elena and Baily Shoo. She's otherwise known by the mononym Suran. On July 9, 2014, the musician made her debut, featuring as part of the duet Lodia, with the tune "I Got a Feeling." If you adore K-hip hop, you've undoubtedly heard Suran's voice in several songs by Beenzino, Dyanmicduo, and PRIMARY. After years of working with other musicians, the singer eventually debuted her own label in 2021, thus releasing more songs. Her recent songs include "Sunny" and "Blanket," which she co-wrote with rapper Wonstein. In January 2017, Suran participated as a competitor in the famous "Skip to the End, Hello" on MBC's King of Mask Singer, episodes 93–94).

On April 24, 2017, the artist launched "Wine," this was a digital song co-written and produced by BTS's Suga, Slow Rabbit, Suran, and rapper Changmo. By May, the song had hit number two on the Gaon Digital Chart, having sold over 500,000 digital downloads. Following the success of her debut single, Walkin', the singer released her debut extended play on June 2, 2017; this hit number 30 on the Gaon Album Chart. Similarly, she released the title tune, "1+1=0," featuring Dean, hitting number 32 on the Gaon Digital Chart. The song sold over 100,000 digital downloads.

Youra-Kim: You-ra is a South Korean singer-songwriter who signed to the label Mun Hwa In. On October 1, 2018, Youra made her solo debut with the track "My." She also participated in the SBS show, The Fan, reaching the fourth round and finishing in eighth place. She released her debut EP, B Side, on March 5, 2019. She again released her single "Virus Mix" on July 28, 2020. On December 23, 2020, Youra went on to release the track "RAL 9002," which featured Heize, before producing her second EP, Gaussian, on February 2, 2021, with "Mimi" as the lead single.

Youra is a talented singer-songwriter, best recognized for her dreamy vocals on hit songs such as "Can I Love?" and "Flicker." She especialy rose to stardom on releasing her debut EP, The Garden, which the breakout artist, Car, produced. Aside from music, Youra is well-known in the Korean fashion world.

The year 2022 is expected to be the year of high growth for Busan's MICE industry.

For the past two years, when the global MICE market has stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Busan has been preparing for the post-COVID-19 era by introducing an online and hybrid infrastructure and progressing the Haeundae International Conference Complex (HAEVENUE) to the completion stage. Through the global exhibition held offline, they did not stop operating a PR booth to communicate with people around the world. As a result of pushing through adversity, Busan MICE is confident that it will open up a new horizon by leading the reorganized global MICE cities in 2022, the year with-COVID-19 predicted by people around the world.

Throughout the pandemic, under the slogan of 'Busan is SURE!', Busan has organized the entire field of the MICE industry into BleiSURE (International Conference), PleaSURE (Incentive Tourism), and TreaSURE (Unique Venue).The recent completion of HAEVENUE instills confidence in the Busan MICE.

These achievements, which are attracting attention in the global MICE market, came from courageous actions and bold choices (BRAVE, BUSAN MICE). It also can be seen as the result of overcoming the unprecedented crisis of a pandemic.

Busan pioneered a new path while other global cities went through a chaotic year due to the pandemic last year. In fact, Busan participated in 'IMEX America 2021' and 'IBTM World 2021', MICE representative global exhibitions held in the hybrid (on-offline parallel) format last year to promote Busan MICE to the world. This is the only achievement among local governments in Korea. In particular, IMEX America 2021 held in Las Vegas in November 2021, was the only city in Korea that participated in an offline event and drew the attention of the world.

An official of the Busan Convention Bureau said, "Despite the pandemic, Busan laid the foundation for the competitive bidding for the time when the COVID-19 is alleviated by discovering incentive tours and conference information from various countries through participating in online and offline exhibitions." Busan has developed Smile Holiday, a MICE product linking Jakarta-Hong Kong-Busan, and has succeeded in attracting and discovering a conference for 3,000 people from the Americas.

The spread of the coronavirus is expected to be dampened due to The Omicron variant this year which will be the watershed for the MICE industry in Busan. It will be a busy year for having meetings with MICE officials from all over the world. Busan Tourism Organization will participate in 7 MICE exhibitions at home and abroad including IMEX Frankfurt(Frankfurt, Germany, May 31-June 2), IT&CMA(Bangkok, Thailand, Sep. 20-22), IMEX America(Las Vegas, USA, Oct. 11-13), ITB-ASIA (Singapore, Oct. 19-21), IBTM World (Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 29-Dec. 1).

In particular, it plans to conduct aggressive marketing activities with Busan MICE Alliance (BMA) at various exhibitions. Through consultations and luncheon briefing sessions for buyers from different countries, they will discover and attract new MICE events, as well as promote the MICE city, Busan. In addition, in preparation for the prolonged pandemic, BTO established a plan B: holding a hybrid briefing session to create a new business. By thorough preparation, they have prepared several alternatives.

This year, Busan will prove why Busan is a global TOP MICE city. Busan plans to expand opportunities for local industries to participate in MICE exhibitions, and hold MICE briefing sessions linked to exhibitions more than three times. An outdoor team-building program under the pandemic will be developed. The international conferences that have been postponed for the past two years will be reorganized for full swing by focusing on hosting rather than postponing.

The 2022 FIATA World Congress, scheduled to be held in BEXCO from September 13 to 19, is a representative example. The FIATA World Congress, originally scheduled to be held in Busan in 2020, has been postponed due to COVID-19. For the successful hosting of the 2022 FIATA World Congress, the Korea International Freight Forwarders Association held a meeting of the organizing committee last year and is thoroughly preparing the event.The organizing committee of FIATA World Congress, led by the co-chair of the organizing committee (Busan Metropolitan City Mayor Park Hyung-Joon and Korea International Freight Forwarders Association Honorary Chairman Kim Byung-Jin) with about 70 members, is established as a cooperative system among industry, academia, research institutes, government organizations. Various events such as various forums, ancillary events, job fairs, and exhibitions will be held for the event, and more than 3,000 logistics experts from 150 countries will participate as an undisputed 'International Logistics Olympics'.

The brave challenge to instill 'Busan is SURE!' into the world has already begun. This is reflected in the promo video recently released by the Busan Tourism Organization through the official YouTube channel, VISIT BUSAN. The video expressed the courageous and confident energy of Busan even in a situation of COVID-19.In particular, 'EyHey Ma Hamo' which is repeatedly mentioned in the video, means "Don't worry! It will be fine" in Busan dialect. It's the belief that 'Busan is okay, and Everything will be fine in Busan'. It has the same meaning as 'Busan is Sure' and has a similar meaning to 'Hakuna Matata' in Swahili or the magic spell, 'Abracadabra'. Watch the video by accessing the link below.

An official of the Busan Convention Bureau(CVB) said, "This year, Busan MICE will not be frustrated by the COVID-19 and will move forward bravely and confidently as it has done so far. Please continue to support and pay attention to Busan MICE, which keeps pushing forward."