Our underwater modeling reality show known as Underwater Action with underwater photographer Mick Gleissner will be airing in China and Taiwan soon on Fashion One! It was a battle against 6 Chinese contestants and me. There was a lot of tension with these two nationalities whilst filming.

SexyMandarin has feminists protesting, and today we had our billboard graffitied.
You can read the article below and also at this site.
I actually went to an all girls catholic school so it feels strange to see this article!

‘Sexy Mandarin’ sets tongues wagging

Language website’s use of skimpy models irks feminists who say it
sends the wrong message

John Carney
Jun 10, 2012

A new website that offers Mandarin lessons taught by lingerie-clad
young women has come under fire from a women’s group, which says the
practice promotes harmful stereotypes.
Sexy Mandarin, headquartered in Hong Kong and geared towards Western
customers who want to improve their grasp of the language, aims to
provide lessons “in a sexy and unconventional way”.

In each lesson, scantily clad models strike provocative poses while
saying basic Mandarin phrases. The video clips – shot in a studio in
the Philippines, according to the website – simulate playful
situations in car-washing, a medical check-up and even “arrests”
featuring a model in a police costume to teach words and colloquial
terms.

Clients can log on to the Mandarin Learners Channel on YouTube to view
the latest lesson for free. The channel, which has its own Facebook
page, has more than 1,300 subscribers and features advertisements for
fashion accessories and lingerie.

The Association for the Advancement of Feminism accused the company of
“selling sex or sexualised services under the packaging of language
tuition”.

Annie Chan, the group’s chairwoman, said the site “sexualised and
exoticised ‘Chineseness’, and is obviously trying to capitalise on
some Westerners’ stereotypes of Chinese women”.

“We do not believe that sex work or sexualised work is necessarily
immoral or harmful to society. It is the discrimination, exploitation
and harassment of sex workers that is immoral and harmful to society,”
Chan said. “That is the way that such work is promoted on this
website.”

The company’s advertising pitch invites customers to learn Mandarin -
the world’s most widely spoken language, with an estimated 1.2 billion
speakers – in “the sexy way”.

“Follow our models explaining how to ask for the time, learn basic
numbers and other important phrases,” it says. “The qualified and sexy
teachers have much more to offer than just their looks.”

The Sunday Morning Post (SEHK: 0583, announcements, news) has received
no response from Sexy Mandarin on the complaint.

Interest in learning the language has soared in the region, with China
having introduced more than 300 Confucius Institutes in 94 countries
to promote Mandarin, also known as Putonghua, since 2005.

The central government claims 230,000 people have enrolled so far in
these institutes, which cannot meet the demand. China sends 5,000
teachers abroad each year and is hoping to be running 1,000 institutes
by the end of the decade.

john.carney@scmp.com

We have had a lot of problems with sending emails to our SexyMandarin students as the emails containing “sexy” all went to spam! So we decided to change the name to Spicy with whatever languages. SexyMandarin however, has gotten so much traction it was difficult to change the name now. Anyway we have SpiyJapanese first lesson out today starring my sister and me! URL link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOOGiXooBo&feature=plcp 

KOZO Billboard is up now! I am looking for the next KOZO Girl and casting will start soon
www.kozo.com 

SexyJapanese coming soon!

So today I received the rough cut of SexyJapanese from my editor Alfred, and it’s looking great! What we did different from SexyMandarin was put in motion when we were shooting, so it looks pretty seductive. The DP did things like shooting through a lamp that had a hole in the middle etc. It’s so strange to see me and my sister in the clip though… Hopefully the clip would be out soon.

LIKE SEXYJAPANESE on FACEBOOK

Link: http://www.adversus.com/models/kaoru-kikuchi/