


I started openly telling people that I was a nude model in 1995, when I decided to model full-time. “I was a normal office worker during the weekdays and a nude model on the weekends. “I started nude modeling in 1988 but I couldn’t tell my friends and family what I did for a living,” said Ha. The restaurant, being in Jongno, central Seoul, had many photographers as customers as there are many photo galleries in the area. One day, after finishing work, she remembered a professional photographer asking her if she had any thoughts on being a nude model. She took a part-time job at a restaurant to try and earn back the money that had been stolen.

She felt helpless as she was living with her sister and her brother-in-law in a single bedroom house at the time, and she had been saving up money to move out. After moving to Seoul and working as an accountant at a trading company, life seemed to have taken a turn for the better.Ī sketch of a nude model However, her purse that had her salary inside it was stolen. Her father was patriarchal, which she says was one of the things that caused her distress throughout her childhood. My job requires me to keep my body healthy and loved.” Ha grew up in a small town as the second youngest among seven children. “It’s not about whether or not I lost weight, but if there are any new scars or scratches on my body. “I check to see how my body has changed overnight,” said Ha. She recently published her first book, “I Am A Nude Model” in June. The body in the mirror is like my closest friend it’s been with me in the same place for a very long time.” Ha Young-eun is the first Korean nude model to open up about her job and the founder of the Korea Nude Model Association. I see a body that is similar but in a way, also a little bit different from yesterday.

It’s a morning routine of mine that I’ve been doing for 30 years. “Every morning, the first thing I do after I wake up is look at my bare body in the mirror. Ha Young-eun is a nude model and the founder of the Korea Nude Model Association.
