Beauties from Daejeon

Miss Korea beauty pageant candidates from Daejeon and South Chungcheong Province pose after the regional preliminaries at the CMB Expo Art Hall in Daejeon Friday night. From left are second-place winner Kim Kyung-ro, winner Kim Han-bit and third-place winner Hwang Joo-hee. They each earned spots at the main beauty pageant scheduled for Seoul in July. The Hankook Ilbo, the sister paper of The Korea Times, hosts the annual Miss Korea event. / Korea Times