In the “News We Know You Can’t Live Without” category tonight (and we all need some diversion these days), the Korea Times announced today that Asiana Airlines has chosen a new model for their advertising campaigns.

And I quote,

Asiana Airlines has chosen a new model to represent Korea’s second largest air carrier _ Park Chae-kyung.

After screening hundreds of models, talents and actresses for six months, the airliner announced its final call on Park. Park is a recent graduate of the Seoul Institute of the Arts’ Film Department and is relatively new as she has not yet started her career in the entertainment world.

Asiana Airlines chose the 19-year-old talent as her image closely matches the direction the company is trying to head toward _ to emerge as a fresh world-class carrier with high-quality service for all passengers in the world. Asiana Airlines is known to choose fresh people with talent including Lee Boyoung and Han Ga-in, who both moved on to become well-known actresses in Korea.

I might add that Asiana is also known to leave crew members behind when they take off. At least they did two weeks ago.

Is it me, or does this person look like she’s barely 13?