
Miss Korea beauty pageant candidates from Seoul pose after their regional preliminaries Thursday. First-place winner Kwak Ga-hyeon, fourth from left; second-place winner Han Soo-min, third from left; and third-place winner Choi Yoo-rim, fifth from left, earned spots at the pageant scheduled for June 4 at the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts. The Hankook Ilbo, the sister paper of The Korea Times, hosts the annual Miss Korea event. / Korea Times