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This past weekend, at comedian Pak Kyeong-rim’s wedding, it was on, girlfriends. The battle of the minidresses, or as they’re called in Korean – the “one-piece.” And all the stars and starlets showed up looking pretty fab and fresh, and nearly everyone was riding the trends, as stars and their stylists are wont to do: cool minidresses and clutch purses, for the most part.

And a note to the photographers – how can you judge the fashion without the shoes?! Hello? Grrr. I’ve linked to the original articles in which the pictures appeared at the bottom of each section.

Jang Na-ra was looking quite gold and glamourous, I must say, and stop looking coy! You know you look good, girl. But Hyo-ri! I don’t know what to say about the dress – kinda “ehh” – but the dead-cream-butterfly-on-the-black-clutch-bag…I’m not feeling it. Doesn’t she look like she’s kinda apologizing with her eyes?

Han Hyo-ju and Hwang Bo-ra were looking good, and I love Bo-ra’s long bag. Shiny, shiny! Lee Su-yeong dressed to…umm…not really stand out. What can one say?

Hyeon Yeong looked kinda scared and like she forgot to bring any purse or accessories, but otherwise looks wedding-worthy; Jo Jeong-rin and Sol-bi look like two flower girls and also fairly uninteresting, but added to the overall mini-dress action.

Newly-reconstructed Yangpa looked crumpled-but-cool, with her riveted metal clutch looking quite robotronic. Cha Hye-rin, on the other hand, looked quite refined-yet-non-descript, and also sported her requisite bit of “futurism.”

Kim Ah-joong was looking, well…pretty uncomfortable with herself, as well as her quirky (and short!) miniskirt and weird open-chested sweater-thing; she looks like she’s thinking about making a dash for the door, and makes me uncomfortable. Jeong Seo-hee looked like she had thrown the top part of a weird suit over her casual outfit and grabbed a random bag on the way out the door. I wish I could have seen her shoes – and that the photographers at Newsen knew what they were doing, or the photo editors, at any rate.

Kang Hye-jeong wins the booby prize for not knowing that you’re supposed to dress up for star-studded events, especially people’s weddings – guess she didn’t get the memo. Pak Shin-hye just looks…frumpy. Too many competing frills up there, I dare say.

I’d say that the overall winner – despite rocking black bows on three separate places on her body (neck, purse, and shoes) – for looking interesting, summery cool, and just plain appropriate for a wedding was Jang Na-ra.

I thought that listening to her cotton-candy songs was excruciating (yet somehow addictive) and I never rocked out to her music; but she was looking fly in that her style and personality seemed to match the clothes she was wearing that day.

And I LOVE the bag, girlfriend! (Check out the bag in the first picture at the top of this page.)

One thing I’d like to say to Newsen photographers – could you expose properly with the outdoor shots next time? Most of the photos were so overexposed, you could barely see what anyone was wearing. And since shoes makes the fashion, please don’t leave them out, mmm-kay?

 

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우리의 ‘FMS WIth You’이란 오디오 포드캐스트가 우리 사이트의 느낌과 멀티미디어 컨텐츠를 자기 MP3기에서 가질 수 있게 하며 맛집의 오디오 투어, 먼 다른 곳의 ‘사운드스케이프’, 그리고 여러가지 다른 심심하지 않게 만드는 컨텐츠를 제공합니다.

The FMS With You audio podcast brings the spirit of our site to your audio player, where you can hear information audio tours of the coolest spots in Seoul, “soundscapes” that will take you even more faraway places, and other audio elements of the integrated multimedia, edgy commentary, and spirit of just plain fun that is on the site.

우리 미스코코와 그녀의 동생, 30000냥, 그리고 메트로폴리티션이랑 Doota!쇼핑몰에 오디오 투어로 가지오! MP3기 있으면 밑에 ‘download’이란 링크로 다운로드 받고 Doota!에 가서 같이 가도 되고. 아니면 그냥 재밌게 함 듣고 나중에 실제로 가서 들으면 좋아요. 강북을 잘 모르는 강남 사람, 지방에서 서울 잘 모르는 사람, 그리고 일반 서울 사람한테도 도움이 될 수 있는 포드캐스트예요. 왜냐하면 한국사람이라도 직접 가게 주인이랑 인터뷰를 해본 적이 없으니까 모르는 정보 있을 수 있으니까요.

Join MissKoco and her sis, Miss30000, and FMS bringing up the rear on an audio tour of Doota!, the most popular shopping mall in Dongdaemun, set right smack in the middle of the fashion shopping district of Seoul, South Korea.

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우리 그 Doota!빌딩 앞에 시작하는데 스스로 먼저 가야 하니까 4호선의 동대문역에서 나오면 8번출구, 2, 4, 5호선의 동대문운동장역으로 오면은 14번 출구에서 나오는 거예요.

우리가 히자 B1층부터 시작한 거고 아주 이쁘고 친절한 직원언니를 만났어요. 자기 가게에 대해서만 설명해주신 것만 아니라 친절하게 그 B1층에 대해서 재밌는 설명도 해주셨네요.

The audio tour starts right in front of the building, and you can get to the building itself from either the subway Line 4 Dongdaemun stop (exit #8) or the Lines 2, 4, 5 Dongdaemun Stadium stop (exit #14).

We went right down to the B1 level, where we met a friendly and fabulous young lady who was really happy to explain not only about the store in which she was working, but oriented us a bit as to other cool places to go.

우리 직원언니의 일하는 “Bloom”이란 가게는 웹사이트가 없으니까 전화로만연락해야 돼요: (02) 3398-7090.
The store in which she’s working is “Bloom” and since it doesn’t have a web site, it most accessible from (02) 3398-7090.

그 다음에 우리 B1에서 1층으로 올라갔는데 - B1는 좀 화려하고 좀 날라리적인 옷이고 아마 아시다시피 1층은 좀 정상적이고 일반 20/30대 여성 위한 패션인데 - 아주 친절하신 아주머니가 많은좋은 설명을 해주셨어요. Doota!빌딩의 정책은 - 모든 가격은 다 고정된 것 - 진짜 편리하고 다른 이란 시장처럼 부담스럽지 않네요. 우리한테 증거 보여줬는데 진짜 - 한국어, 영어, 중국어, 일본어로다 나왔네요! 대단하다!

We then went up to the first and main floor in the building, where most of the contemporary and normal fashion is – where you’d go if you were a 20 or 30-something woman. The B1 level is a bit wilder and younger, depending on who you are. Stuff you might wear on a date or to work would be more ground level fare.

The woman in the “Top Shop” (that’s the name of their store, not a description) near the front of the building really helped out with an interview that laid down how the system at Doota! works.

거기서 끝나고 escalator타고 유명한 4층으로 올라갔어요. 왜 유명하냐면 - 바로 “shoes.” 우리 포드캐스트에서 나오는 음악처럼 “슈즈”는 아주 중요하죠. 패션의 중심이고 제일 중요한 요소이니까요. 가게 주인 아저씨랑 인터뷰했고 재밌는 대화를 나누었어요. 꼭 맞춤 신발 얘기를 들어야 돼요.

One thing you can count on in Doota! is set prices, which sits especially well with foreign customers. Since many other places don’t have this policy, and even many Koreans don’t know about it – since Dongdaemun is well known for having no real set prices and traditionally had done things “street market” style – they have a prepared sign in Korean, English, Chinese, and Japanese.

Then we went on up to the 4th floor, which is where Doota! has its strength – shoes. This is truly “Korea, Sparkling” – right here. We got a pick of a pair at the store where one helpful owner gave us another interview that surprised even Miss 30000, since she didn’t know that you could get any shoe, any design, altered and fitted to pretty much any human foot. That’s good to know.

마지막으로 액세소리 많은 5층으로올라갔고 오렌지 빛나는 친절한 언니 만났어요. 하도 달콤하고 오렌지색이라서 끝나고 진짜로 망고 스무디 마시고 싶었네요. 근데 그 거 없으니까 잘라리 그냥 감자튀김으로 덭힌 핫도그를 먹었어요. ㅋㅋ

And finally, we went to the 5th floor, which has more glitter and sparkle than a crack-smoking fairy sprite on acid. Another friendly worker helped us out when we talked about accessories, and made me pretty thirsty, what with all the orange around the place. I really wanted a mango smoothie afterwards.

처음으로 이런 오디오 투어를 하는 거니까 못한 부분들을 좀 봐주세요. 우리 FMS는더 많은 더 괞찮은 오디오투어 할테니까 기대해주세요!

It was our first attempt, but came together pretty well in editing, and was informative in terms of how to do them much, much better in the future.

Look what I found in Myeongdong! This fellow sells special inserts for high heels. They are supposed to keep your foot from slipping and make heels more comfortable for only 2,000 Won! Later on that same day we came across Dr. Scholl’s version of the same product for 10,000W. We win!

Unfortunately, I don’t think they really work. They worked for about 30 minutes and then they started to move around in my shoe. That was more annoying than just the shoe slipping.

Street Peeps는 우리들의 눈길을 끌고 질문을 던지게끔 호기심을 유발하는 이들을 가리킵니다. 아마도 그의 패션이나 태도 혹은 내면에 숨겨져 있는 뭔가가 느껴지기도 하겠죠. 전철 옆자리나 줄을 서서 대기하는 사람이나 혹은 길거리에서 스쳐 지나가는 이들처럼 우리 주변에는 주목할만한 인물이 많고 우리는 그들에게 말을 건내지 않지만 Street Peeps에서는 이 기회를 붙잡아 여러분들께 보여드립니다. 그들은 우리들의 생각보다 재미있고 특별한 동시에 우리와 비슷한 사람들이라는걸 깨달을 수 있어요.

“Street Peeps” are interesting people who, for some reason, catch our eye and make us want to ask, “Who are you and what do you do?” Perhaps it’s their fashion; perhaps it’s their attitude; often, it’s just a feeling that there’s something under the surface that we want to know about. All around us – sitting next to us on the subway, waiting behind us in line, walking past us in the street – there are fascinating and remarkable people, yet we never stop to talk to them. Well, we do. And what we keep realizing that you should never judge a book by its cover. Most importantly, we realize that perfect strangers are often much more interesting that you might think, but are very much like you and me.

MissKoco and I met Miss Orange while walking around Hyehwa, where she was quite visible in her orange top and serious camera. Her style was bright and loud, and her seeming photographic and perhaps (?) artistic interest caught our eye.

Cap, ribbons, purple bow, big belt and buckle, and serious camera – Miss Orange isn’t just your normal college coed; and when we asked, she turned out to be an undergraduate studying animation and an avid photographer. That’s some serious glass she’s got there.

Artistic, self-confident, and not afraid to express yourself through one’s own sense of fashion – we find that to be pretty cool. And while rockin’ the hoop earrings and bubblegum ring, she just looks both fresh and friendly, and just another one of the great people who populate the streets of Seoul.