Sort of reminds me of Sally Strothers' eyes, which would cry into the camera during the 80's. Except that her career was over and she seemed sincere. Unlike the recent habit of getting good PR by hanging out with the brown folks for a few minutes and posing for the camera. (HT to the Marmot, of course.)
[From the 한국경제.]
That shot with Kim Tae-heeis so posed, and this while interaction so contrived and self-interested. Look, brown man! Smile for the camera and for your food. At least Hyori actually WENT to Africa to see brown and black people. The caption on the news story page (linked above) reads "Kim Tae-hee serves food to a foreign laborer." Nice. Usually, when Koreans' faces are shown, especially juxtaposed with such a famous face in the picture, it would read something like, "Middle school student Kim Yu-mi gets a thrill by posing with her favorite star, Kim Tae-hee" or some such. I'll bet dollars for donuts the reporter didn't even take the guy's name. Which, as a photojournalist working for a paper, should be a given, as this is standard practice in the field of journalism. Except if you're brown.
Truly another chapter in what I like to call "the alms race" for PR points.
P.S. I once got my picture taken at an anti-war rally and published by psueudo-news outlet OhMyNews, in which my face was prominently featured adjusting my camera, and the caption read something like "Foreign journalist covers our rally" or something that made it seem like I was being sympathetic to their cause. I don't remember clearly, but I do remember being pretty irritated, since a journalist taking a picture of me as the main focus and attributing to me specific motives or actions should have taken my name and asked me what I was doing. I'd love it is someone could find that picture in the morass of OMN coverage around 2002-2003. My picture'd be pretty obvious.
