Modeling Map, Asian Edition backstage

THE MODELING INDUSTRY, FROM BACKSTAGE

Real knowledge for models starting their career, from someone who spent more than ten years inside it.

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ABOUT

Modeling Map is an educational project designed to make the early stages of a career easier to navigate. It offers a clearer understanding of how the industry works before a first contract abroad.

The Asian Edition Guide is based on first-hand experience across Japan, Korea, and China. It focuses on the areas that shape a model’s start most directly, helping models, parents, and industry professionals make more informed decisions with better preparation and fewer avoidable mistakes.

Whether you're a model, a parent, or an agent, this guide is made for you.

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Author

Modeling Map is what I wish I'd had at the start of my own career. Ten years in the industry, contracts in Japan, Korea, and China, hundreds of castings, observations, and mistakes, my own and others'. I gathered here everything that comes with experience, before you've had to live through it yourself.

If you're just starting out, remember the most important thing: asking questions is never shameful, and checking your contract is essential. No good offer in this industry asks you to decide within an hour.

I wish you confidence, a clear head, and people who'll be on your side.

Kseniia K.
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Modeling Map guide cover
Introduction page: what you will get from the guide
Table of contents listing ten chapters
Chapter one opening: from digitals to your first contract
Digitals page: a grid of model polaroids
Chapter two opening: reality check, how the Asian market really works
Contract chapter page: never agree to a contract without a visa, insurance and contacts
Glossary page with industry terms from camera test to confirmation
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10+ years

Japan, Korea and Europe. Everything here comes from contracts I signed and from the models I lived and worked alongside.

88 pages

Four languages. Agencies, contracts, money, culture, safety. Templates, checklists and real cases.

Not an agency independent

I don't represent models and I don't take fees from agencies. The guide is the only thing I sell, so the only outcome I care about is that you read the contract before you sign it.

Sample page of a management contract: advances, deductions and termination clauses Click to read the page

Standard clauses of a Japanese management contract

The wording is reconstructed from standard clauses, not copied from a real contract. Agreements of this kind are drafted the same way across the industry.

I don't promise you a contract, an agency or an income. But you will know exactly what you are signing.

CHOOSE YOUR PLAN

7-Day Sprint

$17 one-time payment
What's included
  • Digital starter guide
  • Agency checklist & key terms
  • Up to 10 questions via chat
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Modeling Map Full Guide

$89 one-time payment
What's included
  • 88 pages and 10 chapters: full preparation for your first contract
  • Your contract line by line, agency red flags, safety and settling in abroad
  • 20 questions to the author via chat

Guide + Audit

$249 one-time payment
What's included
  • The full Modeling Map guide, 88 pages
  • Ninety minutes one on one with the author, live call
  • A written strategy for your situation after the call
  • Unlimited questions to the author via chat for 30 days after the call

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FAQ
  • The guide is preparation, not placement. Only an agency can offer you a contract, and anyone who guarantees you one before seeing you is a red flag this guide teaches you to spot. What Modeling Map gives you: you'll walk into castings knowing how the market works, read your contract before signing it, and recognize unfair terms before they cost you money. That preparation is what I can promise. It's also the part most new models skip.
  • Yes. The guide covers universal industry topics relevant to all genders.
  • Yes. The guide is available in English, Ukrainian, Russian, and Spanish.
  • Free content is scattered and often outdated. This guide is structured, based on 10+ years of first-hand experience, and covers practical details that are rarely discussed publicly.
  • Immediately after payment. You'll receive a download link via email within minutes.
  • Yes, together with a parent or guardian. Modeling Map is intended for readers aged 18 and over, so ask a parent to make the purchase and read the guide together.
  • Yes. It explains in plain language what your child is signing up for: how agencies work, what a contract should contain, how the money flows, and what a safe start looks like.
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