Kim So-mi, a 22-year-old student at Seoul National University, has caught the nation¡¯s attention with her appearance in an Organon TV commercial for birth control pills. Appearing in a spot on a subject many would consider taboo, Kim highlights Korea¡¯s generation gap with her frank comments on learning and love.
Ads for condoms and contraceptives that had been confined to magazines have only since January been cleared for TV. The commercial featuring Kim is shown on the women's/fashion channel OnStyle. "I'm Kim So-mi from the class of 2005 at Seoul National University," she is heard to say. "If you want to do love right, I think you have to be really smart. It would make me sick to cry and pout like a fool. Women who are in love have to be really careful."
Kim was born to parents who emigrated to Germany. She says she hesitated at first when the offer to appear in the spot came, but her older brother, who studies in Germany, talked her into it. "It's not like you¡¯re coming out with your clothes off, or doing something bad on screen, there's not going to be a problem,¡± he told her. Kim agrees. "I don't think it's something I need to feel guilty about," she says. But she reveals she only found out about the pill when she was doing the shoot.
Kim, who majors in German-language education, plans to become a double major next year, adding business administration. But if the right opportunity presents itself, she says, she would jump at the chance to do some more modeling.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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