진. 선. 미.

진. 선. 미. Sounds like a female name, right?
It was my firstthought when I heard this ~

There are some famous Jin Sum Mi (actress, politician) but here I would like to talk about different thing.

Well, 진-선-미 is a ranks for Miss Korea contest.
Every coutry has it's own criteria for evaluating Miss XXX contest and Korea apply 진. 선. 미. standart.
The winner of such a contest will be a representative on Miss Universe pageant.

In Korea this contest takes place from 1957.

진 - is a winner, it's ideal lady who is beautiful, intelligent, kind and so on. It is the only one winner in this cathegory.

There are 2 선 finalists who go to 2 another prestigious pageants - Miss International and Miss Earth respectively. They must be excellent in terms of kind, good character, nice appearance. 

Judges choose four 미 winners, four the most good-looking girls. 

I can't help mention that 진'2009 - Kim Juri studied ballet in Russia~

and all 7 winners:

Miss Korea (jin): Kim Ju-ri
Miss Korea (sun): Cha Ye-rin, Seo Eun-mi
Miss Korea (mi): Park Ye-joo, Lee Seul-gi, Yoo Su-jung, Choi Ji-hee

Miss KOREA 2012 date is July, 6!!~~

Less than one month ~ soon we got know who will be crowded next^^

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Winner of Miss Korea 2011:

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