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  • - Oh, yeah.

  • - All right around here.

  • - I have a pimple right now.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Today we're answering popular questions

  • about Korean women.

  • - Out of 10, I think I am seven out of 10.

  • - No, I think way more.

  • - Like nine.

  • - Nine.

  • - You're like super Korean.

  • - She's got the most Korean hair.

  • - Inside of me, I have some American.

  • - I can still speak Korean fluently.

  • I did the most growing up in America.

  • What would you say I am?

  • - 3.5?

  • 3.8?

  • - Sometimes I think in Korean,

  • and then sometimes I think in English,

  • and it gets, like, all mumble-jumbled,

  • so smack down the middle, like five, yeah.

  • - If you see this one type of person,

  • and that person's very, like, what's--

  • - Shy.

  • Introverted.

  • - Introverted, then they tend to be A,

  • but then sometimes it doesn't fall, 'cause me, I'm an A.

  • No one thinks I'm an A.

  • Everyone thinks I'm like B or like O,

  • where you get along with other people more,

  • or, like, you say what you want to say all the time,

  • but then, I guess, in the inside, like when I get home,

  • I think about, why did that person say that to me?

  • (girls exclaim)

  • Then I know I'm an A.

  • - I feel like it's so similar to horoscope.

  • It's not always right, so that's how I see it.

  • But I think I believe in it still.

  • - Yeah, I am O, and other people guess it,

  • pretty much correct a lot of times.

  • - You're like an O.

  • - Yeah, I am.

  • People say that.

  • But I wouldn't think you're A.

  • - Yeah, no one thinks I'm an A.

  • - A's are really quiet and really sensitive.

  • - What type are you?

  • - What do you think?

  • Guess.

  • - B or O.

  • - I'm O.

  • - Oh, okay, O.

  • - And when I was in Korea, it used to be a big thing, like,

  • what blood type are you?

  • And then when I came to America, no one cared.

  • - I definitely feel pressured to be skinny.

  • Growing up in Korea, your appearance is really important.

  • It's so stressful for girls in Korea to be

  • like, look certain ways.

  • - Do you still feel like you should have to be skinny?

  • - Not skinny, skinny, but healthy skinny.

  • - Now I don't care.

  • I mean, I work out and eat whatever I want.

  • I went to elementary school in Korea,

  • and we had this thing among girls, like,

  • who was the skinniest in our class, and like,

  • me and this other girl were the two skinniest,

  • and we would compete, like, who was skinnier,

  • and whenever we had like a weighing thing,

  • and if she was like skinnier than me, I was like, oh my god,

  • and I have to be number one.

  • And this was elementary school, you know, it's not healthy.

  • - In Korea, you always, like every year or certain days,

  • like, they weigh you.

  • - Yeah.

  • - And then, like, everybody sees.

  • It's like, oh.

  • - Before that day, we wouldn't eat too much,

  • and then we would take off, like all the clothes

  • that'll, like, add more weight.

  • - Korean guys, guys would be like, look at girls, like,

  • oh my gosh, she's chubby.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Guys are mean.

  • (girls giggle)

  • - And there is this phrase.

  • Girls shouldn't weigh more than 50 kilograms.

  • - Yeah, that's ridiculous.

  • That's like, if I'm 110, at this height, I'd be like--

  • - If you're taller, that's like, impossible.

  • It's best to just love who you are and eat.

  • It's over-exaggerated, for sure.

  • - Yeah, over-exaggerated.

  • - Like, we don't, like, go like this, and be like (gasps)

  • - I want them to.

  • I want them to.

  • But why don't they grab me?

  • - Totally over-exaggerated, and like, when you kiss.

  • Slow motion.

  • - No slow mo.

  • Get to it.

  • - Korean drama is always like the poor girl, like,

  • working at a cafe or something, and then, like,

  • spill something over a guy.

  • - Happens to be the richest person, like, in Korea,

  • and then he buys her everything.

  • When most people watch Korean dramas,

  • I think it's becoming so popular because they're like,

  • oh my god, that's like a life I can't have,

  • like winning the lottery, so.

  • I love dramas.

  • - Nowadays?

  • I got shocked because whenever I go to Korea,

  • elementary school kids, they wear so much makeup.

  • - Elementary?

  • - Yeah, elementary school kids.

  • - I thought you weren't allowed to.

  • - They still do it anyways.

  • - Really?

  • - Back then, like, eye liner or anything,

  • if you just curl your eyelashes,

  • it makes you look so much prettier.

  • - Yeah.

  • - So back then, when you're like walking in at the entrance,

  • like the teacher would be like holding a stick

  • and like standing there, and be, like,

  • "Hey, what is that?

  • "What is that on your face"

  • Or like, "Take it off."

  • And then if you dye your hair, they're like,

  • "You can't dye your hair."

  • - You can't dye your hair.

  • - You can't paint your nails either.

  • - No.

  • - They like, make you cut your hair really short.

  • You can't have it long.

  • - But for sure in middle school kids,

  • they start putting makeup, a lot of makeup, actually.

  • - Oh, yeah.

  • All right around here.

  • - I have a pimple right now.

  • - Yeah.

  • - In Korea, the standard is kind of high.

  • I feel like when I go to Korea, like, my skin is so bad,

  • but all these Korean girls walking around, they're like.

  • It's like glowing.

  • (girls agree)

  • Skin care in Korea, it's like so much cheaper,

  • but here it's more expensive,

  • so you can't really go as often, and you know,

  • American people don't usually like, even high schoolers

  • or college students, they're not like,

  • "Oh, I gotta go get skin care."

  • - Yeah.

  • - But Korean people are like, "Gotta go this week.

  • "Next week, gotta go."

  • - I heard, like, American skin care products

  • and Korean skin care products, it's so much cheaper in Korea

  • but their ingredients are so much better.

  • - Yeah.

  • - Yeah, that's what I heard.

  • - I believe it, yeah.

  • And like in America, if you say you're going

  • to get like a skin care thing, it's a luxury.

  • It's not like an everyday thing.

  • - 'Cause I ask them to.

  • - Wait, is that a Korean thing?

  • I have it in my blood, so I have a German boyfriend,

  • but I make him hold my purse as well.

  • - Does he get mad at you?

  • - Really?

  • - No, he's used to it now.

  • - I actually don't like guys holding my purses.

  • I want to hold my own purse.

  • It looks weird.

  • - It does look weird, but sometimes it's like, heavy.

  • - Sometimes, like, when I'm walking with my boyfriend

  • or something, and I have my purse here, right?

  • - Oh, it falls.

  • - And then, like, it falls, but we're walking like this,

  • and then it'll slightly go over here, and I'll let go.

  • And then he'll be carrying it.

  • - Well the thing is, we have to carry their stuff.

  • - That's true.

  • - I put his wallet, his keys.

  • - Oh, true.

  • That's true.

  • - Like, I don't want to hold it the whole time.

  • - Well, like, every day, come out of the house and be like--

  • - Yeah, exactly.

  • - Keys.

  • - Cards.

  • So.

  • - BTS.

  • BTS.

  • - For me, I think forever, Tong Vfang Xien Qi.

  • - Oh my god, I used to listen to them.

  • See, I only know the old K-Pop groups

  • because that's when I was in Korea,

  • so I liked Tong Vfang Xien Qi.

  • I liked Super Junior.

  • - It's because we are shorter than--

  • What?

  • But it's true.

  • - It's true.

  • - We are shorter than Western

  • people.

  • If you have small face, it makes you look taller.

  • If you have small face.

  • - And very, like, proportionate.

  • - Yeah, it looks proportionate.

  • - All the Korean, like, fashion stuff is made so small

  • so even like hats these days--

  • - They actually make it bigger because we have big heads.

  • - They finally realized.

  • - They do this.

  • - They realize.

  • - And then they name it, like, Smaller Looking Hats,

  • like something like that.

  • - Oh, to make your face look smaller 'cause it's bigger.

  • - If you wear bigger hats, it makes your face smaller.

  • Yeah, they make it that way.

  • - That's crazy.

  • - If it makes your life better and happier,

  • I think I would say do it but don't overdo it.

  • - As long as you can kinda like still look natural.

  • It's kind of like getting braces.

  • Like, you're changing things to look better.

  • I don't consider, like, Botox, or like laser treatments,

  • plastic surgery,

  • 'cause that's just improving your skin and stuff.

  • - But it makes them, like, feel happier about their life.

  • I'm totally okay with it.

  • - We definitely came to the point where we all agreed

  • that the Korean beauty standard's way too high.

  • - They want to know about these kind of things

  • because, you know, beauty product, even like K-Pop

  • and all these stuff are becoming so popular like world-wide.

  • People are more like, "Where's this all coming from?"

  • And you know, like, that's why they're more curious

  • about these kind of things.

  • (relaxed music)

- Oh, yeah.

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