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- Oh, yeah.
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- All right around here.
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- I have a pimple right now.
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- Yeah.
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- Today we're answering popular questions
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about Korean women.
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- Out of 10, I think I am seven out of 10.
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- No, I think way more.
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- Like nine.
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- Nine.
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- You're like super Korean.
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- She's got the most Korean hair.
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- Inside of me, I have some American.
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- I can still speak Korean fluently.
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I did the most growing up in America.
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What would you say I am?
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- 3.5?
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3.8?
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- Sometimes I think in Korean,
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and then sometimes I think in English,
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and it gets, like, all mumble-jumbled,
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so smack down the middle, like five, yeah.
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- If you see this one type of person,
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and that person's very, like, what's--
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- Shy.
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Introverted.
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- Introverted, then they tend to be A,
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but then sometimes it doesn't fall, 'cause me, I'm an A.
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No one thinks I'm an A.
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Everyone thinks I'm like B or like O,
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where you get along with other people more,
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or, like, you say what you want to say all the time,
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but then, I guess, in the inside, like when I get home,
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I think about, why did that person say that to me?
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(girls exclaim)
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Then I know I'm an A.
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- I feel like it's so similar to horoscope.
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It's not always right, so that's how I see it.
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But I think I believe in it still.
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- Yeah, I am O, and other people guess it,
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pretty much correct a lot of times.
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- You're like an O.
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- Yeah, I am.
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People say that.
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But I wouldn't think you're A.
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- Yeah, no one thinks I'm an A.
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- A's are really quiet and really sensitive.
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- What type are you?
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- What do you think?
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Guess.
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- B or O.
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- I'm O.
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- Oh, okay, O.
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- And when I was in Korea, it used to be a big thing, like,
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what blood type are you?
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And then when I came to America, no one cared.
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- I definitely feel pressured to be skinny.
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Growing up in Korea, your appearance is really important.
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It's so stressful for girls in Korea to be
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like, look certain ways.
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- Do you still feel like you should have to be skinny?
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- Not skinny, skinny, but healthy skinny.
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- Now I don't care.
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I mean, I work out and eat whatever I want.
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I went to elementary school in Korea,
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and we had this thing among girls, like,
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who was the skinniest in our class, and like,
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me and this other girl were the two skinniest,
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and we would compete, like, who was skinnier,
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and whenever we had like a weighing thing,
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and if she was like skinnier than me, I was like, oh my god,
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and I have to be number one.
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And this was elementary school, you know, it's not healthy.
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- In Korea, you always, like every year or certain days,
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like, they weigh you.
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- Yeah.
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- And then, like, everybody sees.
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It's like, oh.
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- Before that day, we wouldn't eat too much,
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and then we would take off, like all the clothes
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that'll, like, add more weight.
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- Korean guys, guys would be like, look at girls, like,
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oh my gosh, she's chubby.
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- Yeah.
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- Guys are mean.
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(girls giggle)
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- And there is this phrase.
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Girls shouldn't weigh more than 50 kilograms.
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- Yeah, that's ridiculous.
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That's like, if I'm 110, at this height, I'd be like--
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- If you're taller, that's like, impossible.
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It's best to just love who you are and eat.
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It's over-exaggerated, for sure.
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- Yeah, over-exaggerated.
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- Like, we don't, like, go like this, and be like (gasps)
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- I want them to.
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I want them to.
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But why don't they grab me?
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- Totally over-exaggerated, and like, when you kiss.
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Slow motion.
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- No slow mo.
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Get to it.
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- Korean drama is always like the poor girl, like,
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working at a cafe or something, and then, like,
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spill something over a guy.
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- Happens to be the richest person, like, in Korea,
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and then he buys her everything.
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When most people watch Korean dramas,
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I think it's becoming so popular because they're like,
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oh my god, that's like a life I can't have,
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like winning the lottery, so.
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I love dramas.
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- Nowadays?
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I got shocked because whenever I go to Korea,
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elementary school kids, they wear so much makeup.
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- Elementary?
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- Yeah, elementary school kids.
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- I thought you weren't allowed to.
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- They still do it anyways.
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- Really?
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- Back then, like, eye liner or anything,
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if you just curl your eyelashes,
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it makes you look so much prettier.
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- Yeah.
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- So back then, when you're like walking in at the entrance,
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like the teacher would be like holding a stick
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and like standing there, and be, like,
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"Hey, what is that?
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"What is that on your face"
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Or like, "Take it off."
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And then if you dye your hair, they're like,
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"You can't dye your hair."
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- You can't dye your hair.
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- You can't paint your nails either.
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- No.
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- They like, make you cut your hair really short.
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You can't have it long.
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- But for sure in middle school kids,
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they start putting makeup, a lot of makeup, actually.
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- Oh, yeah.
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All right around here.
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- I have a pimple right now.
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- Yeah.
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- In Korea, the standard is kind of high.
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I feel like when I go to Korea, like, my skin is so bad,
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but all these Korean girls walking around, they're like.
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It's like glowing.
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(girls agree)
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Skin care in Korea, it's like so much cheaper,
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but here it's more expensive,
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so you can't really go as often, and you know,
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American people don't usually like, even high schoolers
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or college students, they're not like,
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"Oh, I gotta go get skin care."
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- Yeah.
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- But Korean people are like, "Gotta go this week.
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"Next week, gotta go."
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- I heard, like, American skin care products
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and Korean skin care products, it's so much cheaper in Korea
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but their ingredients are so much better.
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- Yeah.
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- Yeah, that's what I heard.
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- I believe it, yeah.
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And like in America, if you say you're going
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to get like a skin care thing, it's a luxury.
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It's not like an everyday thing.
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- 'Cause I ask them to.
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- Wait, is that a Korean thing?
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I have it in my blood, so I have a German boyfriend,
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but I make him hold my purse as well.
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- Does he get mad at you?
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- Really?
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- No, he's used to it now.
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- I actually don't like guys holding my purses.
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I want to hold my own purse.
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It looks weird.
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- It does look weird, but sometimes it's like, heavy.
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- Sometimes, like, when I'm walking with my boyfriend
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or something, and I have my purse here, right?
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- Oh, it falls.
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- And then, like, it falls, but we're walking like this,
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and then it'll slightly go over here, and I'll let go.
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And then he'll be carrying it.
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- Well the thing is, we have to carry their stuff.
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- That's true.
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- I put his wallet, his keys.
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- Oh, true.
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That's true.
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- Like, I don't want to hold it the whole time.
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- Well, like, every day, come out of the house and be like--
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- Yeah, exactly.
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- Keys.
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- Cards.
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So.
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- BTS.
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BTS.
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- For me, I think forever, Tong Vfang Xien Qi.
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- Oh my god, I used to listen to them.
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See, I only know the old K-Pop groups
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because that's when I was in Korea,
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so I liked Tong Vfang Xien Qi.
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I liked Super Junior.
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- It's because we are shorter than--
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What?
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But it's true.
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- It's true.
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- We are shorter than Western
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people.
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If you have small face, it makes you look taller.
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If you have small face.
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- And very, like, proportionate.
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- Yeah, it looks proportionate.
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- All the Korean, like, fashion stuff is made so small
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so even like hats these days--
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- They actually make it bigger because we have big heads.
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- They finally realized.
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- They do this.
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- They realize.
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- And then they name it, like, Smaller Looking Hats,
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like something like that.
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- Oh, to make your face look smaller 'cause it's bigger.
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- If you wear bigger hats, it makes your face smaller.
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Yeah, they make it that way.
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- That's crazy.
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- If it makes your life better and happier,
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I think I would say do it but don't overdo it.
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- As long as you can kinda like still look natural.
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It's kind of like getting braces.
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Like, you're changing things to look better.
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I don't consider, like, Botox, or like laser treatments,
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plastic surgery,
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'cause that's just improving your skin and stuff.
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- But it makes them, like, feel happier about their life.
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I'm totally okay with it.
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- We definitely came to the point where we all agreed
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that the Korean beauty standard's way too high.
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- They want to know about these kind of things
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because, you know, beauty product, even like K-Pop
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and all these stuff are becoming so popular like world-wide.
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People are more like, "Where's this all coming from?"
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And you know, like, that's why they're more curious
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about these kind of things.
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(relaxed music)