Facial features of the winners of South Korean beauty pageants have been changing in favor of higher foreheads and a shorter distance between lips and chin, a new study has shown.
A recent survey of 171 South Korean girls who have made it to the finals of Miss Korea beauty pageants show that the proportions of facial features among the winners in the 1990s and in the 21st century are quite different from those of their peers in the 1970s and 1980s.
For example, Kim Sung-hee, a tantalizing beauty and winner of the 1977 Miss Korea beauty pageant, has a lower forehead than 1987 Miss Korea, Jang Woon-jung, or 1991 Miss Korea Lee Young-hyun.
The shift has become more obvious since 2000, according to the survey by Kim Soo-jung, a multimedia arts professor at Kyonggi University, and Chung Chan-sub, a professor of psychology at Yonsei University.
Face and lip shapes have also shown changes in favor of an egg-shaped face over a rectangular one with prominent jaw, while fuller lips are now favored over thin lips.
High foreheads, short distances between the mouth and the chin and fuller lips are believed to give younger looks.
Many Miss Koreas in the 1970s have rectangular faces but the winners since 1980 tend to have rounder, longer faces and fuller lips.
"Preferences, not the relations of facial features, change as time goes by," Professor Kim Soo-jung told journalists.
"But there is a strong trend in favor of younger looks. That's why many girls make their lips fuller through plastic surgery," he said. (AFP)
新出爐的研究顯示，南韓選美冠軍的臉部特質正在轉變中，以額頭較高，唇與下巴間距較短的面容較吃香。
最近針對一百七十一位角逐韓國小姐決賽的女性之調查顯示，一九九○年代與二十一世紀選美冠軍的臉部比例相當迥異於一九七○與八○年代的優勝佳麗。
例如，一九七七年的選美冠軍冰霜美人金成喜的額頭，就比一九八七年的韓國小姐張雲貞與一九九一年的李永賢較短。
根據這項由京畿大學多媒體藝術教授金秀政與延世大學心理學教授程贊燮的調查，這樣的轉變自二○○○年起更加明顯。
臉蛋與唇形也有轉變的跡象，鵝蛋臉較下巴戽斗的方形臉吃香，豐滿的嘴唇現在也比薄唇受歡迎。
據信高額頭、短下巴與略為豐滿的唇看起來較年輕。
一九七○年代許多韓國小姐都是方形臉，不過一九八○年代的優勝佳麗傾向於臉較圓、較長，唇形更豐滿。
金秀政教授告訴記者︰「是偏好，而不是臉部特徵的關係，會隨著時代而改變。」
他說︰「不過，也有偏愛較年輕模樣的強烈傾向。這就是為何許多女孩子透過整形手術讓唇更豐滿。」
（法新社/翻譯：賴美君）
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