All North Koreans students must have the Dear Leader haircut style

[johnny333]

Back in the '70s & '80s, our very own Dear Leader also had a fetish for short hair.




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Straits Times, 14 Sep 1984

If you watch chinese movies, long hair was popular in the olden days. Funny that the old fart would create his own scholar system in Spore, talk about confucius values,.. & yet make an issue out of long hair.

Today we can see how shallow LKY was In future we will probably be fascinated by stories about how wealthy he & his family is

 

[yellowarse]

If you watch chinese movies, long hair was popular in the olden days. Funny that the old fart would create his own scholar system in Spore, talk about confucius values,.. & yet make an issue out of long hair.

You're right. Confucius and Mencius had long hair tied up in a bun.

Old fart made S'pore the laughing stock of the world – no long hair, no tattoos, no chewing gum. Sad thing these lifestyle choices are associated with immorality and even today many of the older generation still frown upon guys with long hair and long pinkie fingernail.

 

[Yazoo]

Mandatory Korean Kim haircuts a net rumour

AP
Eric Talmadge AP March 28, 2014, 6:10 am

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's distinctive hairstyle is the 'do of the day on the internet, thanks to a viral report that every male university student in the capital is now under orders to get a buzz just like it.

But it appears the barbers of Pyongyang aren't exactly sharpening their scissors.

Recent visitors to the country say they've seen no evidence of any mass haircutting.

North Korea watchers smell another imaginative, but uncorroborated rumour.

The thinly sourced reports say an order went out a few weeks ago for university students to buzz cut the sides of their heads just like Kim.

Washington, DC-based Radio Free Asia cited unnamed sources as saying an unwritten directive from somewhere within the ruling Workers' Party went out early this month, causing consternation among students who didn't think the new hairdo would suit them.

"I was there just a few days ago, and no sign of that," said Simon Cockerell of Koryo Tours, which specialises in bringing foreign tourists to North Korea.

"It's definitely not true."

Wide interest in the reports reflect the fascination the outside world has had with the unique hairstyles of both Kim Jong Un and his father, the late Kim Jong Il, who had a one-of-a-kind bouffant.

Though the forced grooming story may be one of many reported oddities about North Korea life that turn out to be false, it is true that the government has its own "fashion police."

Choe Cheong-ha, a defector who left North Korea in 2004, said members of a government-run youth organisation routinely check for people who are not dressed appropriately.

He said they look for whether people are wearing the mandatory lapel pins with the images of former leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, or for violations such as blue jeans, clothes with English words or above-the-knee dresses.

But Choe said directives on hairstyles weren't much of an issue, since most people voluntarily keep their hair neat and conservatively styled.

In 2005, however, the government waged war against men with long hair, calling them unhygienic anti-socialist fools and directing them to wear their hair "socialist style" and derided shabbily coifed men as "blind followers of bourgeois lifestyle."

The country's state-run Central TV even identified violators by name and address, exposing them to jeers from other citizens.

The hair campaign, dubbed "Let's trim our hair according to socialist lifestyle," required that hair be kept no longer than five centimetres.

Older men received a small exemption to allow comb-overs.

The campaign claimed long hair hampers brain activity by taking oxygen away from nerves in the head, but didn't explain why women were allowed to grow long hair.

With women's hair, too, there have been misperceptions.

Photos of suggested hairstyles posted outside women's hair salons, which allow customers to show her hairdresser what she wants, are regularly depicted by foreign media as showing the only sanctioned styles North Korean women can choose from.

Not true. But don't tell that to the internet.

 

[Xenon]

LOL! This is funny.

 

[underMIND]

Win liao lor.. can ask the whole country male to have same hair...

 

[Giant]

Disgusting Dictator!

 

[ykhuser]

1 day ass long will ask all sinkie male to sit cross leg. any other will be fed to the wild dogs


another days.najib will ask all male to carry 2 coconuts .if not will ask fed to wild dogs

 

[johnny333]

1 day ass long will ask all sinkie male to sit cross leg. any other will be fed to the wild dogs....

In NS I remember an Enche shouting at a conscript who was sitting crossed legged. He shouted "don't sit like a half fucked prostitute"

 

[Agoraphobic]

I had no sisters, so I don't know what happened in girl's schools. In my case, my parents supported PAP policy, and on top of that, my mother did not allow my brother nor me to listen to pop music, so we grew up quite sampala. Forbidden to keep with modern trends was pretty damaging to our growing up which made me rebellious during A levels, which I dropped out and had to complete as a private candidate. We survived anyways. I caught up with society and enjoyed NS though. Kinda strange isn't it?

Cheers!

I remember that in some of the girl schools, the principal would go around giving free haircuts to girls which she thought had hair that was too long
I also heard that in some schools they would measure the height of the heels to ensure that they were within regulation
There were even skirt inspections to discourage short skirts.


In my school a barber would visit twice a week to do paid haircuts


Looking back I can laugh at all the silliness of the PAP inspired system. However it must have damaged the Spore psyche. Just look at all the problems we have

 

[handgun]

Why is there a chef behind? He going to eat the children?

 

[lianbeng]

Win liao lor.. can ask the whole country male to have same hair...

lianbeng doesn't think he is asking lah! more like an imperial decreed!