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May 21, 2008

Pri-tty Ulzzang

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What’s an ulzzang?
짱 (jjang): Korean slang that means "best." Ulzzang means "best face" in Korean and the word is used both online and in real life. Basically, an ulzzang is someone who has a very attractive face, but most people use the term to describe people who have become popular for their looks.

The ulzzang craze started in South Korea. Many ulzzang wannabes post up their pictures on various websites, and voting and chatting can be done on many of them. Contests, both online and in real life, are often used to pick the best ulzzangs, but you do not necessarily need to enter or win. Some ulzzangs, however, have not relied solely on the internet. For example, some have gained popularity at school for being attractive. Most ulzzangs, however, use the internet to share their photos, and that is how many become popular.

Many ulzzangs use Haduri, which is a web camera program popular among teens in Korea. People also take normal or digicam pictures. Some even use Photoshop to edit themselves. Fakers don’t make it far, and they usually get busted.

The most famous ulzzangs may earn celebrity status. Some may appear on shows, magazines, etc. Some ulzzangs may even become real celebrities by going into acting, singing, or modeling careers. A few examples of former ulzzangs are Goo Hye Sun, Park Han Byul, and Kim Hye Sung.

The two most known zzang categories:

Ulzzang/얼짱: Based on the face. 얼굴 (ŏlgul) means "face" in Korean.

Momzzang/몸짱: Based on the body. 몸 (mom) means "body" in Korean.

"Ulzzang" with "zz" is the most common way it’s written out in English on ulzzang websites. Variations on romanization include eoljjang, uhljjang, uljjang, and so on…

Courtesy of:  soompi forums

 

Check out these pics of Ulzzangs . . .

 

 
(This is Kim Hye Sun, seen from 2004’s movie ‘Jenny and Juno’..originally an Ulzzang turned real celeb)

Wanna be an ulzzang? Look at yourself in the mirror and see if you need your face done first.. emoticon

 

Otherwise…..

emoticon drink it over.. lol


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  1. r there sumbody tell me who r the guy
    he s my fs friend
    suspicious my friend is a faker???!!!

    the wif lite brown hair
    thx alot,,

    gud ulzzang,,
    much more,,
    where the momzzang?xixixixi,,

    Gbu,,^^

    Comment by lovely — May 24, 2008 @ 1:24 am

  2. Hi! thanks for visiting my blog!
    So about that, your friend from fs??.. If he really uses that pics then he is no doubt just a faker. As far as I know, Ulzzangs NEVER use friendster. That’s why they are the most target by fakers esp on fs. Coz they’re not really that easy to track. So my advice, never trust anybody online you haven’t met LIVE.. (eg. on webcams) and by the way, that guy’s name is Chin Zhou Cheng. But sorry, I have no more infos about him. Try visit the soompi site forum and see if you could find some of the answers you seek. Just click the link you see on my post.

    Apparently, Ulzzang competitions are done on various blogs and unofficial sites by random people on the web… Soompi, I think, is only one of them… Haduri however, is just the place to find where the real ulzzangs are. That is, if you can read and understand hangul (korean) characters..

    GBU too! ;)

    Comment by Administrator — May 24, 2008 @ 6:40 pm

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