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The recently crowned Miss Iraq, Tamar Goregian is interviewed on ABC television on April 11./AP-Yonhap
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The recently crowned Miss Iraq, Tamar Goregian, has returned the crown after receiving death threats from Islamic extremists. Goregian is a former employee of the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA).
According to KOTRA¡¯s Baghdad trade office, Goregian, who is of Armenian descent, worked as a part time employee and was in charge of arranging negotiations when a KOTRA market opening team was in the country. ¡°I do feel proud that we had Iraq¡¯s most beautiful woman working for us,¡± trade office chief Seo Kang-suk said,
AP reported on April 13 that the winner of the competition was ¡°very troubled¡± by the death threats from Islamic extremists.
According to the report, the pageant to pick Iraq¡¯s representative for the Miss Universe contest in Los Angles in July was held on April 9 in a club in Baghdad. Four days later, Goregian returned the crown. It passed to the runner-up, who also refused citing the same fears, as did the third runner-up. Now the crown has finally settled on the hardy scalp of originally fourth-ranked Silva Sahagian.
To avoid the extremists, Sahagian is hiding at an undisclosed location.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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