The article was initially translated by kk into Chinese and posted on the board.

I've just translated the part up to the Q & A session.  I'll do whenever I'm free.  Those who volunteer to do that are very welcome.  Please note that the information about the first Asian CD model doesn't seem to be true since I know that Kelly Chan, Hong Kong's pop singer-actress should be the first one.

Here is the translation:

The naïve smiles and affectionate eyes of Choi Ji-woo intoxicated the Asians.  However, Cosmopolitan has found out some features of her yet known.  She is so intelligent realizing how to happily work on the scenes and enjoy her work.  As I’ve described her as a foxy girl, that’s why I invited her to be the cover page model.

An angel landed on our ordinary world, Choi Ji-woo.

She was the first Korean model on Cosmopolitan and should have felt her own prominence.
She is very beautiful while smiling.  Her smiles are sexy blended with naiveness.  Her beauty becomes outstanding because she lets us have two totally different feelings towards her yet they are highly harmonious and balanced.  I found two characteristics of her through our chatting.  One is that she is frank and straightforward.  The other one is that she is filled with confidence.  These two result from the force generated from her 11 years’ experience in show business.  Her accomplishments are not instant.  She graduated from Pusan Middle School and was a dance major in Pusan Girls’ University.  After she won the Korean Isabelle Ajani Award in 1994, she made her drama debut in the series, ‘War and Love’.  She then co-starred with Bae Yong Jun in ‘First Love’ in 1997 and started being known gradually.  Her subsequent dramas one after one had very good ratings.  She became the popular heroine in the romantic dramas such as ‘Truth’, ‘Beautiful Days’, ‘Winter Love Song’, Stairway to Heaven’.  She starred in the movies, ‘First Kiss’ 1995, ‘The Romantic President’ and ‘Everybody has Secrets’ 2004 in which her roles have evolved from a naïve sympathetic image to a hilarious woman. It tells us that she is eager for changes and exploring new zones constantly.
No matter what, she excels in the crying scenes often seen in her drama series.  ‘Tears about to drop from her affectionate eyes’ have charmed so many fans that made her so popular.  The actors such as Bae Yong Jun in WLS, Lee Byung-hun and Ryu Shi-won in BD and Kwon Sang-woo in STH that have become popular Asian stars could be due to their collaboration with Jiwoo.  She represented the Korean show business to meet Japan’s Prime Minister Koizumi last year.  She spent her past six months on overseas activities.
This time she becomes the first Asian as a Christian Dior model and leaps to an international star.  I tried to look into why she could develop herself from a heroine in TV drama series into an Asian star.  Here are the reasons.  First of all, she manages her image constantly.  The other is that she knows when to cry, when to smile and how to be feminine.  She also knows when she should get nervous and when to relax.  She knows when to rest while she is off the job.
After we learnt about her story, I realize the major reasons why she was offered the first Korean Cosmopolitan model for the cover page.