Although at first I blamed my insular, uncultured British brain when I struggled to tell the difference between many of the entrants for this year’s Miss Korea pageant, after speaking with members of the editorial team at RocketNews24 Japan, I soon discovered that they, too, were having tremendous difficulty telling some of the girls apart.

If beauty is something that can be defined by one particular look, facial expression and hairstyle, then the entrants for Miss Korea 2013 clearly all got the exact same memo…





I’ve lost count of the number of times over my seven years living in Japan that I’ve been mistaken for some other tall handsome white guy. I’ve had coworkers swear that they saw me in a particular supermarket, at the movies or drinking in a bar, even though I knew for a fact that I was nowhere near any of the places they mentioned. Similarly, an Australian friend of mine recently regaled me with the tale of how a guy from her local gym mistook her for one of the other caucasian girls who lives in the same town and, remarking on how quickly my friend’s “broken leg” had healed, was amazed to see her back pounding the treadmill so soon after her injury.

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