This question came up on Reddit and the answer is post-production skin whitening and heavy makeup. If you see the same actors in films or older kdramas you see that in reality they are much tanner and have (gasp) visible pores.
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This image shows guests with face paint attending a wedding in Seoul, the capital of what is now South Korea, in about 1900
This image shows a school in Seoul, Korea in 1903
A young woman flies through the air as she plays the dangerous see-saw game of Neolttwigi with a friend between 1900 and 1905 at an unknown location in Korea
Kisaeng girls and their bearer boys are pictured standing next to a palaquin in an unknown location in Korea, in about 1900. Korean Kisaeng girls were entertainers and courtesans who sometimes provided sexual services.
I found an article with amazing photos of Korea in the early 1900s but the publication is garbage so I won't link here. Instead here's the photos and it's fascinating to see the contrast with the idealized images in sagueks, esp. skin tones. For more info, check out the alt text. #kdrama
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Hello there! I just left a comment there in your blog entry as “suhodorable”. Just writing it here hoping that you get notified, and hope that we’ll continue our discussion there at your blog’s page 😃
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