| February 1st, 2005 10:06 AM |
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| Fiji Joe |
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's (search) communist government is waging war against men with long hair, calling them unhygienic anti-socialist fools, and even leader Kim Jong Il (search) has trimmed his famous bouffant locks.
The hair campaign comes as North Korea's dictatorship struggles to tighten its control over information, monitor its population and dictate cultural tastes.
It is directing men to wear their hair "socialist style," deriding shabbily coifed men as "blind followers of bourgeois lifestyle."
North Korea's state-run Central TV even identifies violators by name and address, exposing them to jeers from other citizens.
"We cannot help questioning the cultural taste of this comrade, who is incapable of feeling ashamed of his hair style," the station said Monday, showing a Mr. Ko Gwang Hyun, whose unkempt hair covered his ears.
"Can we expect a man with this disheveled mind-set to perform his duty well?" the announcer asked.
The government, which demands unquestioning allegiance and controls all publications and broadcasts, is growing wary of outside influence seeping in.
Foreign broadcasts penetrate the country through smuggled transistor radios. As North Korea's economic woes persist, more North Koreans are traveling to China to seek food — and are exposed to the rapidly spreading capitalist culture there. CDs containing South Korean songs and TV dramas — popular in most of Asia — are reportedly smuggled into the North.
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| February 1st, 2005 10:07 AM |
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| Joey |
.....but the " Vietnam Date " is still a GO !!!! |
| February 1st, 2005 10:09 AM |
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| Jumacfly |
So, Mullets are forbidden in Korea aren t they?? |
| February 1st, 2005 10:13 AM |
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| Joey |
quote:
Jumacfly wrote:
So, Mullets are forbidden in Korea aren t they??
So are White Hairy Asses ! |
| February 1st, 2005 10:14 AM |
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| Angiegirl |
"North Korea's state-run Central TV even identifies violators by name and address, exposing them to jeers from other citizens."
Wow!!!  |
| February 1st, 2005 10:18 AM |
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| Jumacfly |
quote:
Joey wrote:
So are White Hairy Asses !
Shit!! another place where I can't go  |
| February 1st, 2005 10:19 AM |
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| Factory Girl |
Bush is sending troops to facilitate the freedom of the bouffants.
[Edited by Factory Girl] |
| February 1st, 2005 10:30 AM |
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| Jumacfly |
quote:
Factory Girl wrote:
Bush is sending troops to facilitate the freedom of the bouffants.
[Edited by Factory Girl]
he should sell haircuters all over the word to give us the freedom to have a mullet face |
| February 1st, 2005 01:21 PM |
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| Angiegirl |
The Dutch version of this article was even more specific: the hair can be 5 cm long max, because long hair prevents enough oxygen to travel to the brain. But old men are permitted to have 7 cm long hair, to be able to comb it over bold spots...
It's still unclear why women are still allowed to wear their hair long though... |
| February 1st, 2005 01:41 PM |
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| throbby |
I suppose in North Korea it's expected for a woman to have a "disheveled mind set".
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| February 1st, 2005 03:32 PM |
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| Angiegirl |
I have such a mindset too, I have long hair. |
| February 1st, 2005 07:48 PM |
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| M.O.W.A.T. |
quote:
Jumacfly wrote:
Shit!! another place where I can't go
Who would want to visit Joey's white hairy ass anyway? LOL |
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