Korea's Next Top Model, Cycle 1
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Korea's Next Top Model
, Cycle 1 was the first Cycle of the Korean
reality television
show in which a number of girls competed for the title of Korea's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modelling
industry. The prize also included a feature in W Magazine Korea and a contract for SK-II.
On 6 January 2010 it was announced that Korean channel Onstyle would begin production of a Korean version of the model search show. Jang Yoon-Ju helmed the judging panel as the host of the show. The Cycle was running from 18 September to 11 December 2010. Halfway through the competition, the crew travelled to Paris
as the international destination. The winner was 20 year old Lee Ji Min who beat fellow finalists Kim Na Rae and Lee Yoo Kyung who both ended up in runner-up position respectively.
The final 24 contestants are chosen from a pool of 50 during the auditions. 26 are out, 9 more to go. Only 13 will make it into the house.
The final 24 are introduced to the host Jang Yoon Ju and are put into a runway challenge, they were introduced to the wildcard contestant Min Sun who wasn't picked from the final 50 like the others. After a photoshoot with male models the final 13 are chosen from the auditions phase but after some deliberation they decided to let a 14th contestant, Hye Ji, through.
The 14 girls move into their Model Apartment, a pent house overlooking the city. After receiving their makeovers, they participate in their first photoshoot as finalists. The girls have to pose as various pin-up girls. Yu Ri and Hyo Kyeong's performances land them in the bottom two and Yu Ri is eliminated.
The 13 girls did a high fashion recreation.
The girls participated in a papparazzi photoshoot. At panel it was revealed that it would be a double elimination. However, the episode only showed Young Eun eliminated and the next elimination will be shown in Episode 6 instead.
The girls will be working in conjunction with Project Runway Korea for this week's episode.
The contestant won the reward challenge The contestant was eliminated The contestant won the reward challenge, but was eliminated The contestant was added to the cast in a last minute decision. The contestant won the competition
미션에서 우승한 후보 탈락한 후보 미션에서 우승했으나 탈락한 후보 마지막 1분의 선택에서 합격한 후보 우승한 후보
Korea's Next Top Model
Korea's Next Top Model is a Korean reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of Korea's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modelling industry...
, Cycle 1 was the first Cycle of the Korean
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...
show in which a number of girls competed for the title of Korea's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the modelling
Model (person)
A model , sometimes called a mannequin, is a person who is employed to display, advertise and promote commercial products or to serve as a subject of works of art....
industry. The prize also included a feature in W Magazine Korea and a contract for SK-II.
On 6 January 2010 it was announced that Korean channel Onstyle would begin production of a Korean version of the model search show. Jang Yoon-Ju helmed the judging panel as the host of the show. The Cycle was running from 18 September to 11 December 2010. Halfway through the competition, the crew travelled to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
as the international destination. The winner was 20 year old Lee Ji Min who beat fellow finalists Kim Na Rae and Lee Yoo Kyung who both ended up in runner-up position respectively.
Contestants
(ages stated are at time of contest)| Contestant | Age | Height | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kim Yu-ri | 16 | 166.2 cm | 14th |
| Lee Eun-young | 23 | 178.9 cm | 13th |
| Shin Young-eun | 23 | 176.2 cm | 12th |
| Seok Dan-bi | 21 | 171.8 cm | 11th |
| Kim Ye-ji | 21 | 174.5 cm | 10th |
| Seon Hye-lim | 17 | 169 cm | 9th |
| Kim Hyo-kyeong | 18 | 176.8 cm | 8th |
| Baek Il-hong | 22 | 171.1 cm | 7th |
| Kim Min-sun | 20 | 170.7 cm | 6th |
| Oh Hye-ji | 22 | 177.2 cm | 5th |
| Park Doo-hee | 27 | 171.8 cm | 4th |
| Kim Na-rae | 17 | 172.3 cm | 3rd/2nd |
| Lee Yoo-kyung | 23 | 181.3 cm | |
| Lee Ji-min | 20 | 176.3 cm | Winner |
Episode 1
- Original Airdate: September 18, 2010
The final 24 contestants are chosen from a pool of 50 during the auditions. 26 are out, 9 more to go. Only 13 will make it into the house.
Episode 2
- Original Airdate: September 25, 2010
The final 24 are introduced to the host Jang Yoon Ju and are put into a runway challenge, they were introduced to the wildcard contestant Min Sun who wasn't picked from the final 50 like the others. After a photoshoot with male models the final 13 are chosen from the auditions phase but after some deliberation they decided to let a 14th contestant, Hye Ji, through.
Episode 3
- Original Airdate: October 2, 2010
The 14 girls move into their Model Apartment, a pent house overlooking the city. After receiving their makeovers, they participate in their first photoshoot as finalists. The girls have to pose as various pin-up girls. Yu Ri and Hyo Kyeong's performances land them in the bottom two and Yu Ri is eliminated.
- First call-out: Kim Na-rae
- Bottom two: Kim Yu-ri & Kim Hyo-kyeong
- Eliminated: Kim Yu-ri
- Featured photographer:
- Special guests:
Episode 4
- Original Airdate: October 9, 2010
The 13 girls did a high fashion recreation.
| Contestant | Recreation |
|---|---|
| Kim Na-rae | Catwoman Catwoman Catwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics' Batman franchise. Historically a supervillain, the character was created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane, partially inspired by Kane's cousin, Ruth Steel... |
| Kim Min-sun | Chief Priest High priest The term "high priest" usually refers either to an individual who holds the office of ruler-priest, or to one who is the head of a religious caste.-Ancient Egypt:... |
| Kim Ye-ji | Cats CATS (film) Cats is a 1998 direct-to-video film of the long-running West End production of Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T. S. Eliot. Lloyd Webber himself personally oversaw orchestration for the film and called on Gillian Lynne, the original show's... |
| Kim Hyo-kyeong | Galaxy Express 999 Galaxy Express 999 is a manga written and drawn by Leiji Matsumoto, as well as various anime films and TV series based on it. It is set in a space-faring, high-tech future in which humans have learned how to transfer their minds into mechanical bodies, thus achieving practical immortality.The manga won the... |
| Park Doo-hee | Death Defying Acts Death Defying Acts Death Defying Acts is a 2007 supernatural romantic thriller. The film is a UK-Australian co-production directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in... |
| Paek Il-hong | Marie-Antoinette |
| Suk Dan-bi | I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK is a 2006 South Korean romantic comedy directed by Park Chan-wook.-Plot:The film takes place mostly in a mental institution filled with an eclectic menagerie of patients... |
| Sun Hye-lim | The Chronicles of Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children by C. S. Lewis. It is considered a classic of children's literature and is the author's best-known work, having sold over 100 million copies in 47 languages... |
| Shin Young-eun | Avatar |
| Oh Hye-ji | Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor (film) Pearl Harbor is a 2001 American action drama war film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace, who wrote the screenplay... |
| Lee Yoo-kyung | The Road The Road The Road is a 2006 novel by the American author Cormac McCarthy.The Road may also refer to:* The Road , a 2001 Kazakhstani film* The Road , a 2009 film adaptation of the McCarthy novel... |
| Lee Eun-young | V V for Vendetta (film) V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue and produced by Joel Silver and the Wachowski brothers, who also wrote the screenplay. It is an adaptation of the V for Vendetta comic book by Alan Moore and David Lloyd... |
| Lee Ji-min | Chicago |
- First call-out: Kim Na-rae
- Bottom two: Sun Hye-lim & Lee Eun-young
- Eliminated: Lee Eun-young
- Featured photographer:
- Special guests:
Episode 5
- Original Airdate: October 16, 2010
The girls participated in a papparazzi photoshoot. At panel it was revealed that it would be a double elimination. However, the episode only showed Young Eun eliminated and the next elimination will be shown in Episode 6 instead.
- First call-out: Lee Yoo-kyung
- Bottom three: Baek Il-hong, Seok Dan-bi, Shin Young-eun
- Eliminated: Shin Young-eun, Seok Dan-bi
- Featured photographer:
- Special guests:
Episode 6
- Scheduled Airdate: October 23, 2010
The girls will be working in conjunction with Project Runway Korea for this week's episode.
- First call-out: Oh Hye-ji
- Bottom two: Park Doo-hee & Kim Ye-ji
- Eliminated: Kim Ye-ji
- Featured photographer:
- Special guests:
Call-out order
| Order | |Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | |||
| 1 | Na-rae | Na-rae | Hye-ji | Hye-ji | Min-sun | Ji-min | Na-rae | Ji-min | |||||
| 2 | Na-rae | Doo-hee | Min-sun | Hye-lim | Ji-min | Hye-ji | Ji-min | Ji-min | |||||
| 3 | Hye-ji | Hye-lim | Na- rae | Hye-ji | Doo-hee | Na-rae | |||||||
| 4 | Min-sun | Min-sun | Ye-ji | Na-rae | Il-hong | Doo-hee | Na-rae | Na-rae | Doo-hee | ||||
| 5 | Eun-young | Dan-bi | Doo-hee | Na-rae | Il-hong | Doo-hee | Na-rae | Doo-hee | Hye-ji | ||||
| 6 | Ji-min | Ji-min | Min-sun | Min-sun | Ji-min | Min-sun | |||||||
| 7 | Ji-min | Il-hong | Dan-bi | Ji-min | Min-sun | Ji-min | Il-hong | ||||||
| 8 | Hye-ji | Doo-hee | Hyo-kyeong | ||||||||||
| 9 | Il-hong | Young-eun | Young-eun | Hye-ji | Doo-hee | Hye-lim | |||||||
| 10 | Eun-young | Il-hong | Il-hong | Ye-ji | |||||||||
| 11 | Ye-ji | Ye-ji | Ye-ji | Dan-bi | |||||||||
| 12 | Hye-lim | Hye-lim | Young-eun | ||||||||||
| 13 | Yu-ri | Eun-young | |||||||||||
| 14 | Hye-ji | Yu-ri | |||||||||||
The contestant won the reward challenge The contestant was eliminated The contestant won the reward challenge, but was eliminated The contestant was added to the cast in a last minute decision. The contestant won the competition
- Episode 1 was a casting episode. In episode 2, the pool of 24 girls were reduced to the final 13 who would move on to the main competition. This first call-out does not reflect their performance. Hye Ji was added to the competition in a last minute decision, making 14 girls who made it in the competition.
- Episode 5 ended with a cliffhanger with Il Hong and Dan Bi in the bottom two. The elimination was shown the following episode.
| Order | |Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | |||
| 1 | 이유경 | 김나래 | 김나래 | 이유경 | 오혜지 | 오혜지 | 김민선 | 이지민 | 이유경 | 김나래 | 이지민 | ||
| 2 | 김나래 | 박두희 | 김민선 | 선혜림 | 이지민 | 이유경 | 오혜지 | 이유경 | 이지민 | 이지민 | 이유경 | ||
| 3 | 선혜림 | 이유경 | 오혜지 | 김효경 | 선혜림 | 김나래 | 이유경 | 오혜지 | 박두희 | 이유경 | 김나래 | ||
| 4 | 김민선 | 김민선 | 이유경 | 김예지 | 김나래 | 백일홍 | 박두희 | 김나래 | 김나래 | 박두희 | |||
| 5 | 이은영 | 석단비 | 박두희 | 김나래 | 백일홍 | 박두희 | 김나래 | 박두희 | 오혜지 | ||||
| 6 | 신영은 | 이지민 | 이지민 | 김민선 | 이유경 | 김민선 | 이지민 | 김민선 | |||||
| 7 | 이지민 | 백일홍 | 석단비 | 이지민 | 김민선 | 이지민 | 백일홍 | ||||||
| 8 | 박두희 | 오혜지 | 김효경 | 박두희 | 김효경 | 김효경 | 김효경 | ||||||
| 9 | 백일홍 | 신영은 | 신영은 | 오혜지 | 박두희 | 선혜림 | |||||||
| 10 | 석단비 | 이은영 | 백일홍 | 백일홍 | 김예지 | ||||||||
| 11 | 김예지 | 김예지 | 김예지 | 석단비 | |||||||||
| 12 | 김효경 | 선혜림 | 선혜림 | 신영은 | |||||||||
| 13 | 김유리 | 김효경 | 이은영 | ||||||||||
| 14 | 오혜지 | 김유리 | |||||||||||
미션에서 우승한 후보 탈락한 후보 미션에서 우승했으나 탈락한 후보 마지막 1분의 선택에서 합격한 후보 우승한 후보
Photo Shoot Guide
- Episode 2 Photo Shoot: Jean Shoot with Male Models
- Episode 3 Photo Shoot: Pin-Up Girls
- Episode 4 Photo Shoot: High Fashion Recreations
- Episode 5 Photo Shoot: Paparazzi Shoot
- Episode 6 Photo Shoot: Upcycle Dress Fashion Shoot
- Episode 7 Photo Shoot: Silky Hair vs Poor Hair
- Episode 8 Photo Shoot: Underwater Muses
- Episode 9 Photo Shoot: Paris Attractions
- Episode 10 Commercial: SK-IISK-IISK-II, is a Procter & Gamble Beauty brand, launched since 1980 in Japan. SK-II is often considered one of the most expensive beauty brands in the world.- History :...
Commercial - Episode 11 Photo Shoot: Hommage to The Birds
- Episode 13 Photo Shoot: Cover of Korean W Magazine