Posted on 02/21/2013 3:30:05 PM PST by Pinkbell
You won't see a North Korean woman sporting the Jennifer Aniston style blow-dry.
That is because women are being encouraged to do their bit for the world's most conformist state - by getting a specially approved haircut.
The bizarre campaign exhorts women to choose from one of 18 officially sanctioned hairstyles chosen by communist officials eager to clamp down on western influences.
And judging by this display on the wall of a salon in the capital of Pyongyang, there are not many styles to choose from.
With traditional Korean dress, women generally wear a straight style but with western clothes they can choose something more wavy or loosely permed.
You can also tell the difference between married and unmarried women just by the style of their hair do.
Married women tend to be frowned upon if they are not sporting a shorter mop but those who are unmarried are allowed to be a bit more playful with their choice of style - opting for plaits, braids or even a ribbon.
Unfortunately, the strict guidelines also apply for men.
Back in 2005, North Korean state TV launched a five part series entitled 'Let us trim our hair in accordance with Socialist lifestyle' with the aim of promoting short back and sides for its male population.
At the same time, a number of reports appeared in North Korean press and radio urging tidy hairstyles and appropriate clothing.
The TV show sent out teams with hidden cameras to catch 'rebel' North Koreans who were breaking the North Korean strict hairstyle code.
The makers of the program went so far as to name and shame those who had the audacity to get their hair cut differently.
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Reason 4571 why I hate ALL Tv Broadcast executives.
The People want good actresses and stories!? WRONG! Lets have more Reality Shows instead!
I noticed there was a Korean TV show based on the Goldie Hawn Movie “Overboard”. It’s first episode is epic.
I love Couple or Trouble! It was one of the First Korean Shows I watched over here in the states. ^.^
It will give me something to listen too while I am here at work alone, because everyone else stayed home because we got Dumped on by a Snow Storm. :P
I got into JPop when I was young, that is why it takes precedence over KPop for me. It the original and as such the measure to which I hold Eastern Music :D
If you don’t eat you don’t need toilet paper or the can. And I imagine corncobs would end up in a stew.
Choose number 19 and you die.
I've got to admit though that I do not understand why you would think that reluctance to marry a Korean woman and form a lifelong partnership is gay.
I was only making a Joke, about how Pretty Korean Girls are, I didn't mean it any more that :)
No food, no feedstock, no need.
Your words ring truer than you know my FRiend.
The neighborhood I live in is adjacent to a Very Large Korean Community.
They are a very friendly people, but as you said, I still don't completely understand their customs and culture.
It's at times like this I wish my Grandfather was still alive, he Fought in the Korean War with the British Commonwealth Forces Korea(BCFK).
Believe me, he learned more in 2 1/2 years than you or I could learn in 20 :\
I did like “King of Dramas” which poked fun at their own industry. They even had a TV executive complain that extending a show from 16 episodes to 18 episodes would water down the story line .... in the 17th of their planned 16 episodes no less!! lol!
More than once they decided to add flashbacks to fill space. lol. Kdramas do a LOT of that.
LOL, NK diversity line up.
I have heard that very often Koreans meet prospective mates through being set up by parents or friends or matchmakers. That groups of guys and groups of girls will sit apart from each other in cafe’s and bars while complaining that they can’t meet good people.
That wealth, education and status really are important in choosing a spouse.
So all that stuff just isn’t in the K-drama’s? All that stuff really happens?
wow
The Sign of good Health in a Society is it satirization of itself.
That is something the Muslim World lacks in spades.
So all that stuff just isn’t in the K-drama’s? All that stuff really happens?
I don't like to generalize, but from what I have observed from my Korean Neighbors, well....Just apply to what I said about satirization to real life.
There is a reason why that is so prominent in many KDramas' :\
That’s one of my favorites.
Moochelle picks one not pictured, a fat and ugly broad, thinking of Donna Shalala, one of the queens of the P.C. movement that has been going on for way too long !
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