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Lee Hyeon-Joo ( 이현주 )
I normally write about artists and artwork that I come across, but I had to make an exception today. I came across this fantastic picture of a Korean bodybuilder over at a blog entry at Shinjuku no Kinniku. He had a link to 2 videos featuring this bodybuilder, contestant routines and a posedown video, both taken by Bodyfor.tv. The footage is from the 2009 Mr. & Ms. Korea contest that took place in June. I dug around a bit and found a nice blog post with some more information about the bodybuilder. Her Korean name is 이현주, which using Hong’s Hangul Conversion Tool transliterates using MCT to I Hyeon Ju (using the asian convention of last name coming first). I think her name would probably be translated as Lee Hyeon-Joo, and I find some other people with similar names using this spelling convention. She placed 2nd in the +55kg women’s category, but she’s first in my book. Some of the other competitors are also very cute, and it seems that bodybuilding in Korea is improving quite a bit.
I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t do thorough research into this incredible lady. One of the better sources for Bodybuilding in Korea is the Friend Silver Blog. Sure enough, he had many great pictures of this competition, and you can find the +55kg competitors in these two galleries: Gallery 1 Gallery 2. Just click on the button in the bottom right hand corner of the image to launch a slideshow where you can get the larger versions of the images. Here’s a few of my favorites of Lee Hyeon-Joo from there:
You can also find more pics of Lee Hyeon-Joo from other blog entries from nicenet’s blog, and there are some more of her in a contest report from tistory.com.
She’s come a long way since 2006, where I managed to find a video of her at an earlier competition:
The rest of this post can be found over at my DeviantArt Page in my journal: Lee Hyeon-Joo ( 이현주 )
Lee Hyeon-Joo recently took first place at the Mr YMCA contest in the +52kg women's division! And as usual, Friend Silver has been kind enough to post some awesome photos in his blog. Here are some of my favorite pictures from his site (see Blog Entry 1, Blog Entry 2, Slide show 1, Slide show 2, Slide show 3 ):
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