White Lady EntireThere are a lot of aspects to White Girl worth talking about. They’re just things I observe, and are signs that my standards of female beauty have become somewhat Koreanized. Otherwise, why would I be so weirdly attracted to a woman who, in my previous life before Korea, I would have dismissed as pale and kinda unhealthy looking? It’s because in Korea, being pale and generally unhealthy looking is actually a certain aesthetic. It’s the combination of the fact that most Korean women have never regularly exercised (soccer, field hockey, swimming, basketball, softball, etc.), White Lady Walking Backenabling the phenomenon known as “skinny fat”, also known by the more medical term “thin obesity”, in which a given very, very skinny woman is actually medically obese (was that 25% of their weight being body fat?). In Seoul, more than any place else I have been in the world, many skinny women walk down the street with the fat on their bones flib-flabbing from side to side. Eww, right? Add to that the extremely pale skin of some of these women (preserved by the constant use of parasols), and the idea that if they do any exercise at all, they’ll get huge Arnold Schwarzenegger legs and Sarah Connor arms – you get that delicate, pale, dependent look of doe-eyed femininity. And I hate to admit it, but – I kinda like it sometimes.

I know it sounds and can even look gross, but I can’t do anything other than admit it. I know many of you will not want to blow up the pic below, but this girl is sooo ghetto fabulous – pale, not-so-great skin, yellow soles, and brown spots on exposed joints – man, I just had to snap a picture or two as she strutted by with her Princess Diana attitude. These are the princesses who would never date a foriegner, and are best found with thug-ajussi dudes who hang in the Jongno or Yungdeungpo. These are the Korean round-the-way girls, and they are their own kind of lovely.

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