Straight from the horse’s mouth, on their site:

Tickets for shows taking place in Hall 1 & 3 can be basically purchased online (ticket.auction.co.kr )or via telephone (1566-1369). As ticket sales service is provided in Korean only, please ask your Korean friend or colleague to help you out. We are sorry for this inconvenience and appreciate your generous understanding.

I guess I could’ve given that advice for the last few years we’ve been going — “Umm, sorry. We don’t have anything set up for foreigners and haven’t bothered to do anything about it, even though we say we want to open Korean fashion to the outside world. Just ask a Korean friend to do it for you, since we don’t think you’re important enough to even try accomodate, even though this problem has been a constant complaint for the past several seasons.”

You have to do better than this, SFW people — this is embarrassing.

Let’s put it another way — do you think they’d do this at Tokyo Fashion Week?

   Do people remember the episode from SATC where Samantha had fake nipples to follow the trend of the “no bra” look?

  여러분 혹시 “노브라” 트렌드를 따라가려고 가짜 유두를 이용했던 Sex and the City의 Samantha를 기억하나요?

   Yesterday I had quite an experience roaming the streets of Seoul donning the “no bra” look. It was not an intentional move–I simply do not own an adhesive bra, or as my friend would call it, “cutlets“. If you think bare shoulders are taboo in Korea, you should have seen the looks from the ahjuhssis when I went around bra-less.  One ahjuhssi had the nerve to stare my chest blatantly with his mouth agape. As much as I wanted to snap at him, I realized the attention, whether positive or negative, was self-induced, so I shrugged it off.

  어제 노브라를 하고 서울 거리를 나섰다. 그러나 Samantha 처럼 고의적으로 한 것이 아니라 나시를 입고 있었지만 누브라가 없었던 탓이다. 만약 국내에서 민소매를 꺼린다고 생각하면 노브라는 거의 금기시킨다고 해도 될 것 같다. 아예 노골적으로 입을 딱 벌리며 가슴만 뻔뻔스럽게 쳐다본 아저씨도 있었다. 아저씨한테 한 마디하고 싶은 마음은 굴뚝 같았지만 사람들의 시선이 자초한 결과라는 것을 깨닫고 나서는 그냥 그려러니 했다. 

   Still, at the back of my mind, I could not understand why older ahjoomahs could go around bra-less wearing tops made out of paper-thin fabrics, yet a younger woman could not, or should I say, should not. Ahjoomahs are so desexualized in Korea, since they are only viewed as mothers. Which reverberates with my previous post of many Korean ahjoomahs who are infamous for their low-maintenance nature. I believe that they are low-maintenance partially due to the fact that Korean men no longer see them as desirable as women.

   하지만 노브라를 하고 다니는 사람은 나뿐만이 아니다. 노브라를 하고 다니는 아줌마들을 흔히 볼 수 있지만 왜 아가씨가 노브라를 하면 안되는 건가?  어머니로만, 다른 말로 하자면, 더 이상은 여자가 아닌 아줌마들에 대한 편견 때문이 아닐까? 그렇다면 아줌마들이 꾸미지 않는 큰 이유 중 하나는 남자들이 그녀들은 더 이상 여자로, 즉, 성적 매력이 시든 존재로 보기 때문이다.

   All the unwanted lingering glances made me regret with a passion that I stepped out the door without a bra in broad daylight. Now I am going to buy an adhesive bra and only go bra-less at night.  

  하루 종일 낯뜨거운 시선을 받은 나는 대낮에 노브라를 한 내 자신이 원망스러웠다. 이젠 누브라를 꼭 살 것이며 노브라는 밤에만 해야 될 듯 싶다.

이런 주장이 말이 되나? 뉴스엔에 나온 기사인데 서인영이 ‘성형수술 인정하지만 전신성형 절대 아냐’고 말했네요. 오호! 네에에. 만약에 분리하려면 원래 성형수술을 했다 안했다고 중요한 차이 있었는데 이젠 진짜 성형수술이 어디서나 누구나 다 하는 한국사회에서만 이런 주장이 가능하네요. 얼굴이 괜찮고. 몸을 하면 뭐, 비윤리적인가? 그 사람이 자신이 없는 건가? 뭐가 달라요, 진짜? 원래 성형수술에 대해 비판적으로 얘기하려면 사실 근본적으로 성형수술이 왠지 안좋다고 생각하는 의미잖아요. 뭐 하느님한테서 받은 몸을 바뀌거나 페미니스트로서 여성한테 압박을 준다고 생각하거나 심리학적으로 따지면 그런 방법으로 자신감을 생기는 것 아니라고 생각하는 거자잖아요.

‘했다 안했다’는 건 중요한 거죠. 뭐 술 마시는 것처럼. 술에 대해서 비판적으로 얘기하려면 ‘마셨다 안마셨다”는 걸 따지는 거죠. 근데 벌써 윤리적 위반 했다면서 ‘음주운전을 했는데 누구를 안죽였다”고 하는 말이 안 돼죠. ㅋㅋㅋ 성형수술이 한국에서 이만큼 일반화가 됐나요? “했다 안했다”는 걸 안 때지고 “얼굴만 몸말고”는 의미가 있나요? 휴. 이렇게 대답을 하는 거면 잘라리 진짜 자신있게: ‘그래. 했다. 어쩔래? 신경 꺼!’ 그렇게 하든지. 아니면 아에 대답하지말든지. 근데 이렇게 설명하는 건…좀…미안하지만…바보스러워요. 이런 논리가 비논리적인 거니까요.

[Source: Newsen]

Is this really for real? For real, really? From Newsen comes this story, in which ever-popular star Seo In-yeong now defends herself from accusations that she has indeed gotten plastic surgery by actually saying, “I admit I’ve had plastic surgery on my face, but never my body!” Ooooook. Riiiiiight. Has plastic surgery in Korea become so ubiquitous that now, instead of the dividing line being between whether you did or didn’t have it (if you’re going to bother to criticize in the first place), it’s now “just on the face, not the body.” Come on.

I mean, if one assumes that drinking alcohol is in itself bad (which is why anyone would criticize it, right), the dividing line would be whether or not you do, or do not, drink alcohol. But once you’ve crossed that line, that’s like saying, “Yeah, well, I’m a drunk, but at least I didn’t kill anyone driving.” So the line has shifted from “if” to “how much.” In-yeong — what’s the point of even defending yourself if you’re going to say silly things like this? Either say, “Yeah, I got it, and screw you — it’s none of your business” or just don’t talk about it. But this kind of argument just kind of makes you look…well, stupid. Because it doesn’t make any sense.