Beauties of the mid-west

Miss Korea beauty pageant candidates from North Jeolla Province pose after the regional preliminaries held at the Jeollabukdo Educational and Cultural Center in Jeonju Wednesday. Clockwise from top left are third place winners Jeong Hye-won, Kim Myeong-seon and Jeon Sun-jin; co-second-place winner Song Seul-gi; first-place winner Lee Sang-eun; and Choi Kyu-li, the other second-place winner. They have earned spots at the main event of the beauty pageant scheduled in Seoul in July. The Hankook Ilbo, the sister paper of The Korea Times, hosts the annual Miss Korea event. / Korea Times