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By Park Jin-hai
The nation's first beauty pageant Miss Korea was born out of the ashes of the Korean War in 1957. It was organized in order to give hope to a war-stricken people and proclaim to the world that Korea was rising back again, according to 'Miss Korea,' a new book published by the Korean language daily Hankook Ilbo, the sister paper of The Korea Times.
Marking the 60th anniversary of Korea's first beauty pageant this year, the book covers how the beauty competition has evolved with intriguing historical and societal back ground information and unveiled episodes.
The 219-page book includes rare black-and-white photographs of very first Miss Korea 'Jin,' the competition's winner; winners' car parades in the 1960s and 70s; newspaper advertisements and reports;...