C-netizens Vote for Top 10 Asian Beauty Poll with Gao Yuan Yuan and Yoona Leading Off the First and Second Place Spots

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• I wonder if Asian beauty only East Asia while ladies from India and South East Asia seems represent the beauty recognition in Miss World or Miss Universe. And ladies from Arabic countries are extremely beautiful.

  • Yes somehow i feel in East Asia they consider only Japan, China and Korea to be Asia. Either they are not well informed or totally uninterested in whole of Asia when making such lists which is sad coz there are so many interesting celebrities in India, Mid East, Turkey etc.

    • I find the repeated attempts to reframe 'Asian' as only meaning 'East Asian' slightly off-putting tbh. In the UK, 'Asian' is generally taken to mean South Asian but also includes East Asians.

      It's an entire continent, just one part of it doesn't get to reserve that identity for themselves.

    • That's because there's more parallels in the beauty standards of these 3 countries. Celebs in India, Middle East, etc. look too different to be compared together. Also, this is voted by C-netz. If you held the same poll in India, 10/10 of the ranked stars will be Indians. Are people supposed to complain too that India doesn't represent the whole of Asia? Stop nitpicking really.

    • @kitai except when we Indians have beauty polls we name them TOP INDIAN BEAUTIES
      we do not say ASIAN in the title, see the difference? Asia consists of many other countries nobody should claim ASIAN and not incluse them

    • *include.

    • @rene: What I'm saying is that you can include the Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Thai, Turkish celebs, whomever you want and chances are people topping that poll will all be Indians. Who's going to complain about not including celebs from other Asian countries? No one. This obviously a result of differing beauty standards and a lack of general recognition. How do you guys know for sure that no candidates from other countries were in the conversation? Just because they didn't get voted into the top 10 doesn't mean that they were never considered. It's like complaining that the top 100 beauties in the world is invalid and not inclusive enough because of all the nationalities missing. Like "where are the Icelanders, the Singaporeans or the Papua New Guineans?" Does that make sense? The number of states in the world already exceeds a hundred.

  • @fly I'm from south east asia and personally think actresses from India are extremely beautiful. One of the beauty standards in "Asia" is milky fair skin. Most south east asia and India represents olive skin or Asians simply call it "dark skin". That's one of the big reasons that korea china and japan are the only on the list and they have the most influence on Asian beauty standards.

  • As this is a poll by C-netizens, they are likely only familiar with names that are active in their entertainment industry. As in it China, only Koreans and Chinese celebrities are familiar to C-netizens. They want to rank the beauties, but it isn't "Top Chinese Beauties" because they want to include Koreans as well. "Top Chinese and Korean Beauties" is a mouthful. Chinese and Korean are both Asians so it makes sense that they label their poll as "Top Asian Beauties". Doesn't mean that they want to take the term 'Asian' to mean only East Asians. As it was a domestic poll, the convenience in labelling makes sense to them. Hope this clarifies!

• As a European I must have a different taste, because many of the above lists are far down on my own list for sure. Just looking at the very first lady truly makes me wonder if she's Asian or not.

  Here is my list:
  Shin Se Kyung
  Song Hye Kyo
  Aishwarya Rai
  Han Hyo Joo
  Lee Young Ae
  Manaying Sushar
  Park Bo Young
  Ariel Lin
  Zhang Ziyi... etc.

  I also find the following actresses beautiful and very unique, not to mention their great acting skills:
  Moon Geun Young
  Kim Go Eun
  Bae Doo Na
  Shin Min A...etc.

  • LMAO, no one should be above aish. Indian women are the most beautiful.

  • As an European, you are obviously entitled to having different beauty standards, but why do you feel the urge to comment on the asian-ness of the ladies listed here? If you would pardon me for being straightforward, how would an European somehow be more of an expert on Asian features than actual Asians? Furthermore, Asia is a large continent, containing multitudes. There is no stereotypical Asian look as Chinese people look different from Indians and Indians look different from Filipinos.

• Jiyeon shouldn't be on this list at all. As for Yoona and PSH, I feel that there are even more beautiful actresses out there, whether C or K. It's criminal that the beautiful C actress Ni Ni, is not here. She's gorgeous.

  • They are active and popular in china thats why....
    Not just beatiful hence the poll result

• Eh no. If it comes to East Asia, Japanese women are my pick. Just see the cast of the movie Flowers for e.g. Then again my pick outside of Japan is older actresses like Zhou Xun, Gong Li, Gong Hyo-jin, Shim Eun-ha, Maggie Cheung...

  • Maggie Cheung - the most plain looking HK girl in the industry, she has those wide cheek bones that stick out a mile so she is unique but beauty - far from it.

    • Why pick out Maggie's cheek bones (a cinematographer's delight btw), people don't think GHJ is beautiful too. Shu Qi's imdb page used to be haunted by losers claiming no Chinese person would find her lovely. And so on. Beauty is a subjective term. "Beautiful" girls who are supposedly perfect are dime a dozen but in my eyes still not beautiful.

    • Ps: How odd though that plain old HK girl somehow was a runner up in Miss HK.

    • Yes, I agree cheekbones are photographers fav and that's why she was awarded Miss Photogenic rather then winning the pageant. I picked Maggie out of your list because I've never found her beautiful and yes, this is my personal opinion. If you watch police cadet 1984 Carina Lau is naturally much prettier than her - figure wise and facial feature wise. Maggie had to have braces fit to her teeth.

• Fan bing bing is gorg to me. Gao yan yan is pretty but i can never understand why Yoona is considered pretty.

  • I was wondering too..why Yoona is considered pretty..

    • ??cause she's pretty that's why

    • Beauty is in the eye of beholder. Unfortunately, I don't consider Yoona is pretty, but she's definitely not ugly though.

    • I don't consider Yoona pretty as well. Also don't think that Park Shin-hye should be on the list, nor Krystal. Zhao Liying is definitely cute but beautiful?

• If talking about Asian beauties those Koreans listed in the top 10 only one deserves to be there - Song Hye Kyo. There are many other beautiful woman from other Asian countries who would be in the top 10.

  Of course beauty is subjective...

• My top 3 east asian beauties would be (in no particular order) Crystal Liu, Lee Young Ae and Dilraba Dilmurat. I wouldn't put Zhao Li Ying up there even though I'm a fan of her acting, she's just cute and adorable to me.

  • Dilraba Dilmurat if sooo pretty!!!!

  • Dilraba, for me, was the one that stood out in Eternal Love because of her beauty. Her smile is just gorgeous.

  • Yes, Dilraba is gorgeous.

  • Dilraba yessss!!! She's the prettiest among the young generation actresses to me. It helps that her eyes are so dreamy and expressive.

• i am among those that think yoona,park shin hye,zhao li ying, jiyeon and krystal doesnt belong on the list.they are all beautiful but top ten in asia,no way.

  where are knetz favs like kim tae hee,lee young ae,kim hee sun and koala fav jun ji hyun.i find it interesting that only song hye gyo appeared on the list as one of knetz fav.these clearly shows the different taste between knetz and cnetz.

  you cant make this sort of list and exclude great indian beauties like deepika padukone, katrina kaif and ashwariya rai.

  • I agree! you cant make the list and exclude beauties like Aishwarya Rai. Whats the use of calling Asian beauties when it doesnt include whole of Asia ?

  • Because your list of Knetz fav ladies are getting old. Not that favourable in china anymore. They are all mummies. Each generation has new beauties.

  • Deepika Padukone is gorgeous indeed. Bollywood has some of the most stunning women but I love her look, it's more classical/traditional type than most Bollywood actresses.

• 1. Gong Li
  2. Aishwarya Rai
  3. Jeon Ji Hyun
  4. Fan Bing Bing
  5. Song Hye Kyo
  6. Crystal Liu
  7. Mai Davika
  8. Kim Sarang
  9. Ploy Cherman
  10. Nana

• All the Korean ladies on that list are pretty, I guess.... except for Song Hye Kyo, who is straight up gorgeous.

  I really don't get the appeal of idol girls like Yoona etc, they seem rather insipid-looking to me but I guess they are popular with the youth?

  Also agreed that if you're talking about Asian beauties, then all of Asia should be featured, including South and Southeast Asia. East Asia =/= all of Asia, sorry!