Another photo: 2006 Miss Koreas

2006 Miss Koreas: Winners of the 2006 Miss Korea awards accept certificates at Seoul Museum of Art, Monday. From left, Park Sung-min from Pusan, Park Hee-jeong from Pusan, Jang Yun-seo from North Chungchong Province, Lee Honey (reigning queen) from Seoul, Park Sharon from Inchon, Kim Yu-mi from Seoul and Kim Su-hyun from South Cholla Province. Korea Times

Slim TV phone: Pop singer Lee Hyo-ri demonstrates a 14.9-millimeter- thick digital multimedia broadcasting (DMB) phone from Samsung Electronics, SCHB540, Sunday. Samsung will market the thin TV phone today via SK Telecom at around 750,000 won. /Yonhap 08-06-2006 20:12

Fans Bet Kim Tae-hee's the Marrying Kind

Kim Tae-hee
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As Kim Tae-hee’s demure image suggests, her fans feel the actress would take to married life like a duck to water. In a poll on the homepage of the Sports Chosun, a sister paper of the Chosun Ilbo, asking which celebrity was most likely to enjoy a model marriage, Kim took the overwhelming lead. The poll from July 30 until Sunday netted the actress 5,265 clicks of support or 48.8 percent of the 10,794 votes cast, making her the week's ideal wife. On the first day, she polled 50 percent. Fans appear to believe that the star will marry well and enjoy a happy marriage.

Two more Lees were next. K-pop star Lee Hyo-lee with her 2,390 votes (22.1 percent) pulled ahead of Lee Young-ae late in the race, leaving the actress in third with 2,300 (21.3 percent). But in Lee Young-ae's case, considering the fact that significant number of respondents were in or around their twenties, her rank wasn't all that bad. Meanwhile Jeon Ji-hyun managed a fourth place with 7.8 percent (839) of the votes.

From left: Lee Hyo-lee, Lee Young-ae and Jeon Ji-hyun
(englishnews@chosun.com )

Attention fans: they may be the marrying kind, but they may not want to get married to you!