"In Korea, where beautiful male pop icons are now commonly referred to as kkonminam (kkot= flower; minam= handsome man), Korean male beauty has, by any standard of judgement, taken on a distinctly effeminate quality."
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Roald Maliangkay, in “The effeminacy of male beauty in Korea”.
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