Miss Universe Korea
Miss Queen Korea (Korean: 미스 퀸 코리아) is a national beauty pageant responsible for selecting South Korea's representative to the Miss Universe and Miss World pageant.
History
In 1957 the first Miss Korea competition took place in 1957 and was sponsored by the Korean newspaper Hankook Ilbo. In 1959, Hankook Ilbo sent first Miss World contestant who represents Korea. The winner of Miss Korea traditionally competed at the Miss Universe between 1957 and 2015, 1st runner-up of Miss Korea competed Miss World between 1959 and 2010. In 2011 the new pageant comes from Park Jeong-ah pageant and holds a pageant, Miss World Korea competition, later Park launched Miss Universe Korea pageant in 2016, Miss Supranational franchise in 2017. The first edition of "Miss Queen Korea", three titles go to Grand slam pageants: Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss Supranational. Began 2022 the Miss Queen Korea took over the Miss Universe and Miss World only.
International crowns
- One – Miss Supranational winner:
Placements at international pageants
Current licenses
- Miss Universe. The highest result is Jenny Kim as Miss Congeniality of Miss Universe 2016.
- 3 placements at Miss World. The highest result is Do Kyung-min as Top 7 of Miss World 2011.
Past licenses
- 1 placements at Miss Supranational. The highest result is Jenny Kim as Miss Supranational 2017.
Titles
| Number of wins from Miss Queen Korea (past licenses) | |
|---|---|
| Pageant | Wins |
| Female international beauty pageants: | |
| Miss Supranational | 1 |
| Number of wins from Miss Queen Korea (current licenses) | |
|---|---|
| Pageant | Wins |
| Female international beauty pageants: | |
| Miss Universe | 0 |
| Miss World | 0 |
| Queen of International Tourism | 0 |
| Male international beauty pageants: | |
| Mister World | 0 |
Note that the year designates the time Miss Queen Korea has acquired that particular pageant franchise.
- Current
- Miss Universe (2016–present)
- Miss World (2011–present)
- Mister World (2014–present)
- Queen of International Tourism (2024–present)
- Past
- Miss Supranational (2014, 2017–2021)
Titleholders
| Year | Miss Queen Korea — Universe | Runners Up & Sponsor Award |
Special Awards | International Placements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Cho Se-whee | (1st) Yoo Da-hyeon (2nd) Jiyu Park, Songyeon Kwon (3rd) Dahee Park, Kim Daun, Lee Ji-eun |
Sein Park, Yang Gyu-won, Park Go-eun |
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| 2018 | Baek Ji-hyun | (1st) Elena Lee (2nd) Seonyoung Kook, Kwon Whee (3rd) Harim Goo, Taeyoung Kim, Lee Yeon-joo |
Chaerin Jang, Bin Ji-young |
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| 2019 | Lee Yeon-joo | (1st) Park Ha-ri (2nd) Seunghyun Kim (3rd) Ha Seo-bin |
Yejin Lim, Lee Hwa-young |
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| 2021 | Jisu Kim | (1st) Kim Hanna (2nd) Seok Yu-jin, Song Yu-jin (3rd) Noseong Kim, Byun Hyo-jeong |
Kim No-seong |
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| 2023 | Kim So-yun | (1st) Kim Seo-young, Yoo Jeong-yeon (2nd) Choi Eun-gang, Park So-li, Park Se-yeon (Sponsor Award) Nari Kim, Yang Seon-ah, Choi Yun-hee |
Jeong Yun-jeong , Kang So-myeong, Jinah Lee, Song Yeonji, Yeji Kim, Eunji Lee, Jeong Myeong-moon, Kim Hee-kyung |
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| 2024 | Han Ariel | (1st) Park Se-hee, Lee Yu-jeong (2nd) Lee Eun-bi, Shin Eun-young, Lee Hye-bin |
Choi Soon-hwa, Lee Na-kyung, Choi Ji-an, Park Joo-hee, Lee Ji-won, Kim Yu-rim, Hong Jeong-yoon, Jeong So-ra |
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| Year | Miss Queen Korea — World | Runners Up & Sponsor Award |
Special Awards | International Placements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Do Kyung-min | (1st) Kim Sung-min (2nd) Park Min-ji (3rd) Aeyoung Yoon (4th) Hyewon Kim (5th) Park Hye-yoon (6th) Yoo Ji-hee |
Not awarded |
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| 2014 | Song Hwa-young | (1st) Kim Min-ji (2nd) Chyung Eun-ju, Mina Jeong (3rd) Tak Hee-jeong, Hong U-ri, Sumin Kim |
Yumin Jeong, Park Hong-hee, Hyona Park, Ra ji-young, Soyeon Park |
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| 2015 | Wang Hyun | (1st) Jenny Kim (2nd) Baek Ye-rim, Lee Do-won (3rd) Elena Lee, Go Min-jeong, Ahn Jeong-yoon |
Jo Eun-ha-neul, Park Chan-ah, Hong Da-in, Go A-ra, Jo Hyeon-jeong, Won Ok, Choi Ah-hyun |
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| 2016 | Kim Ha-eun | (1st) Jeon Se-hwi (2nd) Chaehyung Lee, Sun Gyeong-i (3rd) Lee Won-kyung, Jooyoung Choi, Boyoung Choi |
Hyein Kang, Kim Ji-won |
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| 2018 | Cho Ah | (1st) Elena Lee (2nd) Seonyoung Kook, Kwon Whee (3rd) Harim Goo, Taeyoung Kim, Lee Yeon-joo |
Chaerin Jang, Bin Ji-young |
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| 2019 | Lim Ji-yeon | (1st) Jijeong Park (2nd) Hwajin Lee (3rd) Noh Gyu-oh |
Yejin Lim, Lee Hwa-young |
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| 2021 | Tara Hong | (1st) Jinhee Park, (2nd) Baek Ga-hyeon, Noh Eun (3rd) Jeon Ga-eun, Kim Song-i |
Kim No-seong |
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| 2023 | Lijin Kim | (1st) Jeong Min, Bae Song-bin (2nd) Jeon Eul-hye, Sa Ha-hyeon, Hwang Ha-je |
Oh Yoo-jeong, Lee Chae-bin |
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| 2024 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
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| Year | Miss Queen Korea — Supranational | Runners Up & Sponsor Award |
Special Awards | International Placements |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Lee Eun-bi | (1st) Elena Lee (2nd) Seonyoung Kook, Kwon Whee (3rd) Harim Goo, Taeyoung Kim, Lee Yeon-joo |
Chaerin Jang, Bin Ji-young |
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| 2019 | Kwon Whee | (1st) Hyesoo Jeon (2nd) Hwang Chae-won (3rd) Sujeong Yoo |
Yejin Lim, Lee Hwa-young |
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| Year | Mister World Korea | Runners Up | Location | International Placements | Ref. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Second | Third | |||||
| 2015 | Im Seung-jun | Koo Seung-hwan | Jung Koo-young | Lee Min-gu | Pyeongchang |
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| 2014 | Seo Young-suk | Kim Seong-eon | Im Hyun-woo, Kim Dae-young | Lee Hwang-hyun, Lee Ji-han, Park Geun-jong | Yeongwol |
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Titleholders under Miss Queen Korea org.
Miss Universe Korea 2016—Present
- : Declared as Winner
- : Ended as runner-up
- : Ended as top 5/8 qualification
- : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- : Ended as special awards winner
- Since 2016 the Miss Queen Korea took over the license of Miss Universe Organization. The main winner of Miss Queen Korea represents South Korea at the Miss Universe pageant. On occasion, when the winner does not qualify (due to age) for either contest, a runner-up is sent.
| Miss Queen Korea Universe | |||||||
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| Year | Province | Miss Queen Korea | Korean Name | National Title | Placement at MU | Special Awards | Notes |
| 2024 | Seoul | Han Ariel | 아리엘 한 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2024 | TBA | TBA | |
| 2023 | Gyeongnam | Kim So-yun | 김소윤 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2023 | Unplaced | ||
| 2022 | Seoul | Kim Hanna | 김한나 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2021 (1st Runner-up) |
Unplaced | Appointed — There was no national competition, a runner-up of last year took over the Miss Universe 2022 competition. | |
| 2021 | Seoul | Kim Jisu | 김지수 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2021 | Unplaced | ||
| 2020 | Incheon | Park Ha-ri | 박하리 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2019 (1st Runner-up) |
Unplaced | Appointed — Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, the First Runner-up of 2019 crowned as the Miss Queen Korea 2020. | |
| 2019 | Incheon | Lee Yeon-joo | 이연주 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2019 | Unplaced | ||
| 2018 | Daegu | Baek Ji-hyun | 백지현 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2018 | Unplaced | Second Runner-up of Miss Korea in 2014. | |
| 2017 | Gyeonggi | Cho Se-whee | 조세휘 | Miss Queen Korea — Universe 2016 | Unplaced | Cho was competing at the Miss Korea 2014, representing Gyeonggi; she was also first runner-up of Miss Gyeonggi in 2014. | |
| 2016 | Seoul | Kim Jenny | 김제니 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2015 (1st Runner-up) |
Unplaced | 1 Special Awards
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Appointed from Miss World Korea by national director Park Jeong-ah; later, she won Miss Supranational 2017 in Poland on December 2, 2017. |
Miss World Korea 2011—Present
- : Declared as Winner
- : Ended as runner-up
- : Ended as top 5/8 qualification
- : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- : Ended as special awards winner
- The second winner of Miss Queen Korea crowned Miss World Korea title. the titleholder will be replaced when annual pageant postponed or suspended. Before 2011 the 1st runner-up of Miss Korea traditionally represented South Korea at Miss World pageant.
| Miss Queen Korea World | |||||||
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| Year | Province | Representative | Korean Name | National Title | Placement at MW | Special Awards | Notes |
| 2025 | TBA | ||||||
| 2023 | Incheon | Lijin Kim | 김리진 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2023 | Unplaced | 1 Special Awards
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| 2021 | Seoul | Tara Hong | 홍태라 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2021 | Unplaced | 3 Special Awards
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| 2020 | Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no competition held | ||||||
| 2019 | Seoul | Lim Ji-yeon | 임지연 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2019 | Unplaced | ||
| 2018 | Seoul | Cho Ah | 조아 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2018 | Unplaced | 1 Special Awards
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| 2017 | Seoul | Kim Ha-eun | 김하은 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2016 | Top 10 | 2 Special Awards
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| 2016 | Seoul | Wang Hyun | 왕현 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2015 | Top 11 | ||
| 2015 | Seoul | Chyung Eun-ju | 정은주 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2014 (2nd Runner-up) |
Unplaced | ||
| 2014 | Gyeonggi | Song Hwa-young | 송화영 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2014 | Unplaced | ||
| 2013 | Busan | Park Min-ji | 박민지 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2011 (2nd Runner-up) |
Unplaced | ||
| 2012 | Seoul | Kim Sung-min | 김성민 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2011 (1st Runner-up) |
Unplaced | ||
| 2011 | Daegu | Do Kyung-min | 도경민 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2011 | Top 7 (4th Runner-up) |
2 Special Awards
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Mister World Korea 2014—Present
- : Declared as Winner
- : Ended as runner-up
- : Ended as top 5/6 qualification
- : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- : Ended as special awards winner
- The winner of Mister World Korea represents his country at Mister World. Miss and Mister World Korea Organization sent to Mister World in 2014.
| Mister World Korea | |||||||
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| Year | Province | Representative | Korean Name | National Title | Placement | Special Awards | Notes |
| 2024 | Did not compete | ||||||
| 2019 | Incheon | Na Gi-wook | 나기욱 | Mister World Korea 2019 — Appointed | Unplaced | ||
| 2016 | Seoul | Seo Young-suk | 서영석 | Mister World Korea 2014 | Unplaced | ||
| 2014 | Seoul | Lim Jae-yeon | 임재연 | Mister World Korea 2013 — Appointed | Unplaced | ||
Queen of International Tourism 2024—Present
- : Declared as Winner
- : Ended as runner-up
- : Ended as top 5/8 qualification
- : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- : Ended as special awards winner
- Debuted at Queen of International Tourism in 2024.
| Miss Queen Korea | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Province | Representative | Korean Name | National Title | Placement | Special Awards | Notes |
| 2024 | Seoul | Bae Song-bin | 배송빈 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2023 (1st Runner-up) |
Unplaced | ||
Past titleholders under Miss Queen Korea org.
Miss Supranational Korea 2014—2021
- : Declared as Winner
- : Ended as runner-up
- : Ended as top 5/8 qualification
- : Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- : Ended as special awards winner
- The second winner of Miss Queen Korea crowned Miss Supranational Korea title. Until 2021 the organization sent Korean representatives at Miss Supranational pageant. Began 2022 the license handed to Mister International Korea which also selected Korean representation at Mister Supranational pageant under Miss Supranational Management.
| Miss Queen Korea Supranational | |||||||
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| Year | Province | Representative | Korean Name | National Title | Placement at MS | Special Awards | Notes |
| 2021 | Seoul | Hyesoo Jeon | 전혜수 | Miss Queen Korea — Supranational 2019 (1st Runner-up) | Unplaced | ||
| 2020 | Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no competition held | ||||||
| 2019 | Seoul | Kwon Whee | 권휘 | Miss Queen Korea — Supranational 2019 | Unplaced | ||
| 2018 | Incheon | Lee Eun-bi | 이은비 | Miss Queen Korea — Supranational 2018 | Unplaced | 2 Special Awards
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| 2017 | Seoul | Jenny Kim | 김제니 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2015 (1st Runner-up) |
Miss Supranational 2017 | ||
| 2014 | Daegu | Kim Min-ji | 김민지 | Miss Queen Korea — World 2014 (1st Runner-up) |
Unplaced | ||
See also
- Miss Korea
- Miss Grand Korea
- Mister World Korea
- Mister International Korea
- Mister Korea
- Beauty pageants of Korea
- Miss and Mister World Korea
- Miss and Mister Supranational Korea
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