Citations:ulzzang

Noun: "(often used attributively) a South Korean subculture emphasizing idealized beauty, in particular large, round eyes and softened features"

 * 2010, "Momokun", "Beauty is PAIN", Asian Outlook (Binghamton University), Volume 23, Issue 4, Spring 2010, page 17:
 * I'm not sure who this is a picture of, but this girl has the "Ulzzang" look.
 * 2010, Catherine Louis, "Lady Gaga kicks off risky lens trend", Peninsula Daily News, 10 October 2010, page 8:
 * Fame-seekers there called "ulzzang girls" post cute but sexy head shots of themselves online, nearly always wearing circle lenses to accentuate their eyes.
 * 2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 199:
 * The ulzzang look often takes work to achieve.
 * 2015, Mark S. Siegel, "Avoid an eye nightmare this Halloween!", The Island News, 1 October 2015, page 10:
 * In Korea, Japan, and other Asian countries there's a subculture that seeks to mimic the "Ulzzang" look of Anime characters (cartoon figures).
 * 2015, Woodrow Barfield, Cyber-Humans: Our Future with Machines, pages 233-234:
 * In other words, an ulzzang girl strives to have behemoth, circular eyes, a tiny nose and mouth, flawless pale skin and a tiny body dressed up in coordinated outfits.
 * 2016, Linda Trinh Võ, "Transnational Beauty Circuits: Asian American Women, Technology, and Circle Contact Lenses", in Global Asian American Popular Cultures (eds. LeiLani Nishime, Shilpa Dave, & Tasha Oren), page 310:
 * Although ulzzang subculture is about fashion that includes hair and clothing, its emphasis on facial features helped to popularize circle contact lenses.
 * 2016, Crystal Abidin, "Agentic cute (^.^): Pastiching East Asian cute in influencer commerce", East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Volume 2, Number 1 (2016), page 37:
 * For instance, Charmaine is known for her distinctive ulzzang (literally ‘best face’) style eyebrows, which are shaped to be thicker than natural eyebrows, extend from her inner eyelid past the corner of her eyes, and coloured in with a dark brown eyebrow pencil.

Noun: "(South Korean idol fandom) a good-looking person"

 * 2010, "Momokun", "Beauty is PAIN", Asian Outlook (Binghamton University), Volume 23, Issue 4, Spring 2010, page 17:
 * These lenses are also made popular by ulzzangs (얼짱), which means “best face.”
 * 2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 199:
 * An ulzzang is someone who has achieved popularity for her appearance, and a number of Web sites exist that allow users to post their photos and viewers to rank them.
 * 2015, Ko Jung-Wook, Jaysek, Reborn, unnumbered page:
 * "Hey, she's the ulzzang (pretty face) from Geuman Girls' High School."
 * 2020, Millie Ho, "Hungry Ghost", in Uncanny Magazine, Issue 33, March/April 2020, page 140:
 * We met on a language exchange
 * app, me the English teacher who'd swooped into
 * Hongdae like a sudden wind, her the ulzzang who
 * dreamed of opening a BBQ restaurant in America.

Adjective: "(South Korean idol fandom) attractive"

 * 2012, Margo DeMello, Faces Around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face, page 199:
 * Because of the emphasis on this kind of beauty in Korea, Korean pop stars and television stars all share these physical features and are considered to be ulzzang.