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Some are saying that Korea may be ready for another beauty standard, since Beyonce dropped her, umm…beyonce…on the peninsula last week. Korea got a double-dose of the jelly through Dreamgirls and now, last week's concert, which had the effect of a cultural neutron bomb on Korea: buildings were left standing, but the population couldn't escape that woman's energy. Or her thighs, apparently:

From the Korea Economic Daily:
비욘세는 지난해 영화 '드림걸즈'를 통해 가수로서의 가창력 뿐만 아니라 연기까지 넘나드는 만능엔터테이너의 면모를 과시, 한국에서 더욱 친숙한 할리우드 스타로 입지를 굳혔다.
이 에 부흥이라도 하듯 지난 9일 내한공연까지 기획하면서 한국 팬층을 두텁게 확보하는데 성공했다. 특히 이번 공연에서 비욘세의 힙라인이 크게 매력으로 작용했다. 그녀의 힙라인은 우리나라기준으로 자칫 비만해 보일 수 있는 외국인의 체형기준으로는 힙이 위로 바짝 올라가 허리를 강조하고, 다리를 길어 보이게 하는 효과까지 주어 매력적이다.
Let's just hope that Beyonce adds balance to the already obssessive compulsion with looking like a stick in Korea, instead of just becoming another unrealistic standard for Korean woman to achieve. Korean women have spent enough time trying to look white, essentially, so let's hope this helps calm things down, since I don't think Korean women are going to be beyoncing around naturally anytime soon.
Let's hope Beyonce has just helped give women in Korea more options, so that when a fabulous girl with thick thighs and some junk in her trunk wants to put on a mini, and some skinny bitches snicker at her from the corner, she can stop dead in her tracks and spin around with a confident flip of the hair and walk towards them while singing:
I don't think you ready for this jelly
i don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this
Is my body too bootylicious for ya baby?!
Or something like that, in the music video in my mind.
한국은 '"젤리"가 나올 준비가 됐나?' 그랬으면 좋겠네요. 근데 그냥 또 이루어질 수 없는 기준이 되면 안되고 - 한국여자들은 너무 오랫동안 백인여자처럼 보이도록 노력하고 있었잖아요. 코 높아지고 다리 길어지고 눈이 동그랍게 만들고 그랬잖아요. 너무 그 영향에 빠져 있었던 거예요. 그래서 비욘세가 왔는데 그냥 따라하기만 하면 안된다말이야. 비욘세의 "젤리"가 한국 여성들에게 미에 대한 또 다른 대안을 제시해 줄 수 있으면 좋겠어요.
그래서 통통하고 다리 두껍고 진짜 '젤리'가 있는 아름다운 여자가 유행하는 미니스커트나 원피스를 입고 어디 들어갔을 때, 거식증 걸린 듯이 마른여자들이 쳐다보면서 비웃고 뭐라고 하면 그 통통한 여자가 고개를 확 돌리고 그 년들한테 다가서 Bootylicious에서 나온 가사를 부를 수 있었으면 좋겠어요:
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this jelly
I don't think you ready for this
Is my body too bootylicious for ya baby?!
현실이 뮤직 비디오였으면 좋겠죠? 근데 한국에서는 뮤직 비디오, 영화, 드라마에서 나오는 걸 막 따라하잖아. ㅋㅋ 그래서 그 멋진 상상을 실현시키도록 노력하자, 오케이?
— FMS
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8 Responses for "Is Korea 'ready For The Jelly?'"
Korean girls should learn from that: Beyonce, J. Lo, Monica Bellucci…skinny is not the way…
I hope they're ready, but you know what? It's up to the women to say "the hell with this shit" and get a clue.
If I were concerned about Korea's perspective on my jelly, I would have left years ago.
FMS,
So, Beyonce's thighs are kind of "thick" huh… Let's face it, 50% of the problem is many Korean guys are just too damn skinny. Do I really want my thighs to be thicker than those of my boyfriend?
Well, I think both are true. ㅋㅋ
Beyonce has some thick thighs. We all know that. And most of us in the know definitely appreciate that. No one here's hatin' on B.
And yeah, on the size difference issue, I also kinda agree, since that issue about height and width relative to the girl does come up a lot – being either taller or much wider than your boyfriend is something much more possible here, and what I hear vocalized both in person and in pop culture. I have on female friend who said she was really happy to have met a taller man than her previous bf, since she couldn't wear heels around him, since she was like 3 inches taller than him, which he apparently didn't like much.
But on the other hand, now, since many girls like the "flower boy" aesthetic, the lines btw male and female are definitely blurring more these days.
Not saying that's bad or good, but just an interesting thign going on these day.
ㅋㅋㅋ…come on, her thighs are not thick, by the average women standard I mean. What is she? A six, eight maybe. You can't be saying a woman's thighs are thick and are loving them, unless, getting slapped is your idea of fun. You can say that about her ass, but never about her thighs; might as well say that she's fat. Out of curiosity, who do you think has the perfect set of thighs, not too thick and not too thin?
As for "flower boy," I wouldn't date a guy I can beat up silly, and that's the way it should be.
I love this post! Thanks for writing it.
A little background - I'm going to Korea in a few months and am worried about how my curvy half-Korean figure is going to be judged by Koreans. I don't mean that in any way to gloss over the horrible things that the US media does to women's minds, but I know that I'm bigger than the average Korean woman…
Well, it's good to have variation in standards of body image and sexiness, but to be real, most Korean women don't look like Beyonce any more than they do a chopstick. I was talking to a Korean woman on the phone who had a complex about her skinny butt. She then used Beyonce as a model to compare herself to and explain how she thought she wasn't sexy. A beauty standard of any kind implies that there are people who don't meet it.
well i've been living in korea now for 4 years almost and when i just came i was "fat" for korean standard so had to lose 8kgs but i gained 4kgs again and most of my friends are telling me that i should lose weight cuz i have thighs of Beyonce. i love my fatness and jelliness but i guess for skinny korean guys i'm too much.
The only reason why korean male is looking for unhealthy looking girls, is because they are skinny and short.
and i must say koreans do like beyonce but not her body.
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