The Korean edition of the fitness magazine Men's Health magazine has departed from the interchangeable male torsos that usually grace its cover to feature the K-Pop singer Lee Hyo-lee, a woman. The August edition shows Lee getting a hug from acting newcomer Lee Jai-yoon. She becomes the first woman on the cover of the magazine that more typically features the likes of Cho Han-sun and Lee Seo-jin. She will likely be the last for a long time, as will an eight-page special spread of the starlet shot in Maldives.
The concept for the shot was to show the ¡°everyday¡± Lee Hyo-lee, so the singer is seen vacationing in a bikini and demure as a maiden. Her partner in the shoot, Korean Canadian Lee Jai-yoon, has appeared in the sitcom "Non-stop" and the DMB soap opera "Yap.¡± The magazine says the ¡°innocent charm and youthfulness¡± of the two, plus ¡°the way they diligently groom themselves¡± persuaded it to feature the two as representatives of the beauty of the times.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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