These days you can see Korean girls go to the extreme to be cute and adorable, play acting like a child (Aegyeo), or using cute rehearsed facial expressions to attract guys, or just embrace the cuteness. You can see countless girls staring at themselves all the time with their cellular phones or pocket mirrors, sometimes up to a 30 minutes or more. There are also numerous girls that snap photos of themselves or with friends that try to look cute together, all cuddly and what not.
Many girls go to the extreme, and feel they are some delicate princess that needs to be hampered. They wear sparkling or glittering shoes, purses, sometimes put glitter in their faces, and have expensive clothing to portray that they are a princess. The Korean guys call this "princess complex", in that girls become so obsessed in dressing up and acting out this princess role. Many guys pander to it, buying girls whatever they want. Sometimes it gets really competitive. My one charismatic friend Maeri described a friend that yelled at her: why doesn't he like me, you are not pretty, he should like me...
Several years ago, you can tell when a girl received a call from a guy that she likes, as her voice gets soft and delicate, and all giddy and giggly. Now, it is more extreme, as they act more child like in front of their perspective mates, and sometimes they act this way all the time. They call this Aegyeo (pronounced approximately Ay-Gyo), which is child-like play acting to be cute and adorable. We can see girls in the street pout to try to get attention from guys, then slap him for not giving him attention, or a girl hit a guy over the head with her huge purse, too drunk to realize that it can hurt him. Guys ignore them and get more attention, whether play fighting, or being cuddly with each other. It is all fun and games, the more the girl acts cute and child-like, the more the guy should like her more. My Japanese friend Mami dated a Korean guy and she got annoyed when he chopped up her food for her, and fed her each bite, and wiped her face. She felt like she was helpless and feeble, but understood that this is the culture, where the girl is expected to act like and be like a little girl that needs to be fathered and dominated by strong secure man.
Here's a video called Gee by Girls Generation that I like, and it shows these girls with their practiced adobable looks that you see many Korean girls try to mimic to snag a guy's heart:
Many girls go to the extreme, and feel they are some delicate princess that needs to be hampered. They wear sparkling or glittering shoes, purses, sometimes put glitter in their faces, and have expensive clothing to portray that they are a princess. The Korean guys call this "princess complex", in that girls become so obsessed in dressing up and acting out this princess role. Many guys pander to it, buying girls whatever they want. Sometimes it gets really competitive. My one charismatic friend Maeri described a friend that yelled at her: why doesn't he like me, you are not pretty, he should like me...
Several years ago, you can tell when a girl received a call from a guy that she likes, as her voice gets soft and delicate, and all giddy and giggly. Now, it is more extreme, as they act more child like in front of their perspective mates, and sometimes they act this way all the time. They call this Aegyeo (pronounced approximately Ay-Gyo), which is child-like play acting to be cute and adorable. We can see girls in the street pout to try to get attention from guys, then slap him for not giving him attention, or a girl hit a guy over the head with her huge purse, too drunk to realize that it can hurt him. Guys ignore them and get more attention, whether play fighting, or being cuddly with each other. It is all fun and games, the more the girl acts cute and child-like, the more the guy should like her more. My Japanese friend Mami dated a Korean guy and she got annoyed when he chopped up her food for her, and fed her each bite, and wiped her face. She felt like she was helpless and feeble, but understood that this is the culture, where the girl is expected to act like and be like a little girl that needs to be fathered and dominated by strong secure man.
Here's a video called Gee by Girls Generation that I like, and it shows these girls with their practiced adobable looks that you see many Korean girls try to mimic to snag a guy's heart:
Yeah, I've seen this over the years and it isn't something I buy into. It can be fun in small doses, but I'd never put up with it in a relationship.
Posted by: Steve | June 28, 2009 at 03:08 PM