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Since I came to Korea 7 years ago, I have been trying to teach Koreans how to be more entrepreneurial. While it is true that overall Koreans are highly resourceful, the problem is that they tend to rely on family and friends more than complete strangers, and thus are not so often promoted to build new businesses with a competitive edge and basically copy the same cookie-cutter approach to everything (barely anything but franchises exist here).

I did however run an international college prep school for some three years, and during that time I taught many of my students to harness their talents to make money aside from their family's income. I taught an aspiring artist how to price and get paid for his work, I helped a girl with no idea what she wanted to do but loved dance to eventually fall in love with acting, I've helped a fluent English and Korean speaking student to get work as a translator, and I've gotten a few people into programming and music (my favorites!).

For a long time my passion was helping to change the lives of my students and help show them what I thought was a better life outside the rigid and gloomy Korean machine. More or less though all students are at the whim of their parents and cannot do anything they want due to outrageous study schedules and ridiculous restrictions on their activities (these kids can't get a job until they are 18 in most cases, whether by family's wishes or by work restrictions, and even when they do it's barely $3.50 an hour).

Well, almost all students that is. Sometimes you meet the true born entrepreneurial types that will never take no for an answer and are always looking for a new challenge, to take risks and learn fast. Even though I no longer run that college prep school, I still meet many students in my daily life filming ridiculous stunts in public, at skateparks, concerts, etc. A while back I met a young girl who has shared her interest in modeling and she shared with me her dream of breaking out of the redundant system that is Korea and doing something important in her life. After she learned about Bitcoin, she decided she would continue to pursue being a model, but to make Bitcoin a part of it somehow.

In recent days I have seen (and proofread) articles about this "Girls Gone Bitcoin" stuff. Personally, I don't think taking your clothes off on camera empowers you, I think it degrades you. That could just be my upbringing shining through though. Nonetheless, the idea of empowering young women to be able to earn money, like the young artist in Thailand who wants to sell her designs but has no way to receive money, or the aspiring producer who comes to Korea just to film a documentary on other high schoolers and their obsession with makeup and surgeries, all of these young women can benefit from Bitcoin in a non-degrading way.

I often take the trolling stance on things and bash them down for being poorly executed, and this usually leads to me decided to take matters into my own hands. Well, this time won't be any different.

Introducing the first model in South Korea to promote Bitcoin-- the beautiful Yoon Yeonghwa.

She is only interested in using Bitcoin, not fiat, and she's disgusted with the way that the world has with putting someone down just because you don't follow their rules. If there is ever a legitimate and classy organization designed to help the women of the world earn Bitcoin without requiring them to be cheap strippers, she will be the poster child.

Show her some love everybody. http://www.facebook.com/yeonghwayoon .

I'll continue to work with her in photography and film but I welcome suggestions for money making ideas for her that aren't tasteless.

Peace.