Beauties of Incheon, Gyeonggi

Beauties of Incheon, Gyeonggi: Miss Korea beauty pageant candidates from Incheon and Gyeonggi Province pose after their regional preliminaries Thursday night. On the top photo are the Incheon region’s third-place winner Gu Ye-rim, left, first-place winner Han Ji-eun and second-place winner Bang Kyoung-ran. On the bottom photo are Gyeonggi region’s third-place winner Lee Soo-yeon, left, first-place winner Kim Ji-hyung and second-place winner Jin Dal-rae. 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