Whatever Happened to Ryu Mi-oh? NSFW 

The name Ryu Mi-oh won’t mean anything to those unfamiliar with Korean nude models who were popular from the mid-90s to early 2000s, but those who know who she is/was (a group that will mainly consist of expats in Korea during that time) will surly appreciate this article.

Ryu Mi-oh was one of the ladies featured here in this 2010 piece on the most notable names ever in Korean adult entertainment. Born June 8, 1975 as Kim Eun-jung, she started her career in front of the camera as a nude model. Her voluptuous image not only graced magazines, she was also featured on such things as advertisement posters and nightclub flyers. She first appeared on the scene in the mid-90s, when the Internet was in its formative years. Even so, it’s surprising there’s so little information about her online (and I say this after searching Korean sites for her), seeing that she was arguably the most popular nude model in Korea when the Internet became commonplace a few years later.

A couple of years ago, while doing some Internet research on Miss Ryu and coming up with very little in the way of English results, I did happen across this comment a reader left at a popular Korea-based blog for expats, back in October of 2008:

He must have first arrived in Korea in the mid-to-late 90s because that was the heyday of Miss Ryu getting her “cans” out for video, magazine, and photo book shoots. Also wondering what she’s doing these days, I did some digging to see what I could come up with on the now-40-year-old former queen of the Korean skin scene.

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