2014 MAPW SUPER TALENT, the place where Show Biz Makes Super One, live in more than 164 countries

       

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2014 MAPW SUPER TALENT, the place where Show Biz Makes Super One, live in more than 164 countries

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World's No. 1 Show biz platform, unique slogan 'Super Talent Search by Beauty Queens' Truly bringing all world together on one super stage

About the pageant, organizer and the supervision

The International Supertainer Search for the 50 nations super beauties, '2014 Miss Asia Pacific World Super Talent Search' will arrive in 19th starting from the preliminary round in Kyoung do Resort in Yeosu, Jeonnam State which the pageant will last for 13 days.

After 4 nights and 5 days in Yeosu for the sea side party, swimsuits, Maxim International Cover Girl photo shoot, traditional outfit competition, multi cultural golf contest and more, arriving on the 24th in Seoul and on the 27th at the Scalatium in Kangnam, talent show competition, 28th prejudgment and after the final rehearsal on the 31st at the Grand Hilton Seoul, more than thousands of viewers will be watching on live.

A departure from the traditional beauty queen pageants like Miss Universe or Miss World, Miss Asia Pacific World has its sights firmly set on superstars - film stars, pop icons and super models. With its unique concept of discovering and nurturing talented beauties to become future stars in the global entertainment industry, MAPW is today the world's number one superstar talent agency, with offices in the top 50 most relevant countries.

With over 80 affiliate talent management and advertising agencies, candidates and

winners are given extensive training and significant exposure.

Previous candidates and winners have been and continue to be rewarded with exposure

to Bollywood and Korean Pop (K-Pop), as well as, endorsements for leading brands in

Europe & Asia.

The 2014 Edition will be distributed by The Times Group, the world's largest-selling

English-language daily and YuuZoo Corporation, with users in over 164 countries. The

show will be broadcasted on Fashion One, Zoom(TV channel), MediaCorp, Times Media

and Film Awards Television.

Concept

All Miss Asia pageant brand started in the 1960s, the very first and oldest regional beauty pageant in Asia and Oceania. Fast forward to 2011, the brand expanded to include other regions in the world and carries on as Miss Asia Pacific World with the subsidiary brand Miss Asia Pacific International.

The total format convergence, debuting in 2011 from Seoul, South Korea, Miss Asia Pacific World Super Talent Search is now the world’s top superstar talent contest-cum-agency, having propelled the careers of many aspiring and up-and-coming talents such as Diana Starkova (Model), Srishti Rana (Model/Actress) and Anna Lundh (TV Personality), amongst others.

This next-generation-of-beauty-pageant offers the unique opportunity to young women of all nationalities, from all over the world, to begin a career in modeling, acting or singing with a supported international network.  Miss Asia Pacific World carefully selects local organizers to set up national competitions in over 50 the most important countries, in which thousands of candidates participate. After the competition, all the efforts will be put into the management areas.

Contestants – Star of Stars

The quality of the contestants are the most important, and all of our contestants already have the experience winning the beauty queens in a contest in their nations from all around the world. Aiming to focus on only 50 nations beauties who could participate for this contest.

Preliminary round, final and venue

The contest is scheduled to total 13 days, starting from Seoul Palace as an official hotel on May 19th, from May 20th till 23rd at Yeosu Kyoungdo Golf & Resort at Jeonnam State, on the 27th Talent Competition in Kangnam Scalatium at Seoul, 28th will be the prejudgment and the 31st the world final will be held as a dinner show at the convention center in the Hilton Grand Seoul Hotel.

This year the worldwide contestant will be showing the arrival, backstage, the sponsors, talent shows, swimsuits competition, evening dress party and more which will be on films 3 to 10 minutes each and immediately sending to Yuuzoo, MediaCorp, MTV 8 Live and other global network stations to gain interest and on the 31st of May the world final will be leaded by the main host same as last year, Chinese most famous host 'Allan Wu' and the co-chief producers will be ‘Jung, You-Shin’, Korea top producer and 'Michael Carandang' from the Next Top Model edition in Asia.

The World final will be live broadcasting. Thanks to the Korea digital live broadcasting network and YuuZoo Social Network in 164 countries, former Nokia Asia Pacific district and Media Corp’s Toogle IPTV, MTV 8 Live and other on line networks and of course other 50 nations broadcasting teams, the history of the event will be newly written.

Main Opening Show (Live)

The main highlight of the opening show of the event will be the national top design brand Anthony & Tess opening show.

Since 1996 until today for over 170 fashion shows, Anthony & Tess has been showing remarkable artistic fashion shows in Asia Model Festival Awards, The Public Cultural Arts  Award Ceremony, Fashion Week Pret-a-Porte and more.

The strong character of the designer itself and different from other typical brand, the audience will feel great emotion and joy while watching Anthony & Tess fashion show.

The Winner’s Crown

The winners crown and outfits for this event will be produced by the best known national fashion school Moda Lab. The former designers will have their working experience at the 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World (MAPW) Super Talent Search, the concept is Italian Vatican pope.

Media Distribution and Management

After the pageant will be over, for a week the final show, preliminary round and the episodes will be edited to 50 minutes to broadcast 121 nations by ‘Fashion One’, the  biggest fashion channel in Asia Pacific, ‘MediaCorp’, the first broadcasting network in Asia,  Bollywood channel 'Zoom TV' and other 60 networks for about 8 months.

As same as last year, ‘Times Group’, annually hosting the Indian International Film Awards

and the world's largest-selling English-language daily will be the main news media for

the pageant.

A well known international magazine Maxim International will be this year's magazine partner. Maxim will be sending, their official photographer 'Martin Alonso' to Yeosu Kyoungdo Golf & Resort for a photo shoot. Meanwhile he will be shooting and also will be the judge for the coronation night, the photos will be sent to the main headquarters of Maxim global editors to be selected as the final 7 contestants for the next Maxim’s global cover models, and among the top 3 will be nominated for the 'Maxim Hot 100' awards.

 

Q & A

What kind of a competition is, Miss Asia Pacific World (MAPW) Super Talent

Search?

If you could refer to soccer, if the other pageants are the Olympics, this pageant will be the World Cup. All of our contestants are senior beauty queens which already have the experience winning the beauty queens in a pageant in their nations from all around the world.

As in the name, could only Asia Pacific contestants could participate for the pageant?

No, it isn't. 5 oceans and 6 lands, all the countries could participate. It all started with the Miss Asia brand which now become as conversion to 'Miss Asia Pacific World (MAPW) Super Talent Search', is known as the largest Asian entertainment alliances across the globe, our pageant search for global super talent, supertainer around the world.

Miss Asia Pacific World Super Talent Search is the name, is there a special meaning inside the word, 'Super Talent'?

A beauty pageant could be just a simple entertaining event, but in newly emerging nations or inadequate countries, it has become an event letting know the countries and a role working as an important promotion material. Because of this we will be focusing to cultivate a super talent who will be working in the East Asian market and further worldwide

Inside the organizing committee, to cultivate a super talent, in which area are you focusing on to?

Coming from all nations there are language barriers, we are searching and focusing on entertainers who will be working in Asia in the future. So first will be concentrating on movie actresses and vocalists.

Following the Korean wave and the K-Pop, this year we will be producing international girl groups with K Sound Entertainment in Korea to launch 'MAPW Dolls'.

The songs has already came out, digital web covers, off line album, CD press, the copyright and then the music video, dramatize production will be finished, they will make a debut in September all around the world.

We also agreed Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Bollywood’s leading film management group of companies to debut our winner and talented girls to their up-coming movie as a co-main role.

For example, Korea Actor Association will award MAPW 2014’s top two contestants to acquire Korea actress licensee. The chairman of this organization will directly award during pageant period with leading press conferences. All our worldwide national directors will be optionally become the official license of their global network, in this way, we will be their commercial and promotional partner when Korean movie, drama star, so called ‘Korean Wave’ conduct Asian tour such as fan sign event etc. We also endeavor this convergence to Chinese, Japanese Actor Association.

By this competition is there a world star born?

In 2011 Diana Stacova from Ukraine won the final crown. We had managed her posture and esthetic part. Toning her body and changing her black hair into blonde, photo shoot with the most famous national management corporation sidusHQ. In 2012 May, invited to Cannes Film Festival and shooting a movie about the first Islam female leader Benazir Bhutto's life in Pakistan, England and the United States. This movie will be nominated in Oscar and the Emi Awards in 2014/5.

In January 2014, Diana becomes the official cover model for 'L’Oreal' which the company is the official sponsor for this year’s Cannes Film Festival which is why she is currently working in Paris. During the Film Festival she will be acting as a main celebrity and after the event ends, she will arrive in Korea on the 27th of May to cover the finals. We will honor her as the 'Super Model of the World'.

Is there a special, something about this year event?

This year we will be focusing more on the inside and outside of the pageant together both. Building Asia Pacific media platform through Fashion One, Media Corp, Now TV, Film Awards TV, Zoom TV and Times Now, will be managing the event with a solid concept.

Your last word will be ?

We are Asia's number 1 Show biz platform under the unique slogan ‘Super Talent Search by Beauty Queens, We bring together people of different cultures and different languages, truly bringing all world together on one super stage, giving international fans, celebrities, Asian Stars and K-Pop artists come together to be seen live in more than 164 countries, the opportunity to select the very best future star of the year. You won't see anywhere else. 2014 MAPW SUPER TALENT, the place where Show Biz Makes Super One.

For ladies who have dreams to become global stars, MAPW is the platform for you. Strengthen your foundation and join the pageant that aims to help women build a long-term entertainment/fashion career.

Additional cover and inquiry

Miss Asia Pacific World Super Talent Organizing Committee

David Kim

press@mapwwide.com

+82 2 3444 7821

www.missa.tv