North Korea: Students required to get Kim Jong-un haircut

[Lite Beer]

North Korea: Students required to get Kim Jong-un haircut

Male university students in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their leader Kim Jong-un, it is reported.

The state-sanctioned guideline was introduced in the capital Pyongyang about two weeks ago, Radio Free Asia reports. It is now being rolled out across the country - although some people have expressed reservations about getting the look.

"Our leader's haircut is very particular, if you will," one source tells Radio Free Asia. "It doesn't always go with everyone since everyone has different face and head shapes." Meanwhile, a North Korean now living in China says the look is actually unpopular at home because people think it resembles Chinese smugglers. "Until the mid-2000s, we called it the 'Chinese smuggler haircut'," the Korea Times reports.

Read More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-26747649

-- BBC 2014-03-27

[lee b]

Maybe they will all be a cut above the rest !!! hahahaha

[huahinjoe]

There was already a street vendor in China who looks exactly like him hehe

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/20/kebab-seller-man-looks-like-kim-jong-un_n_5000834.html

[car720]

No man wants to look like a pussy and I am speaking literally.

[frozin1]

Certainly an excellent choice for the ladies.

F1

[klauskunkel]

combine it with a hitler mustache and you got a winner!

[wprime]

He's not helping the whole "all asians look alike" sentiment.

[Basil B]

And to think this loony has nuclear missiles

[Torrens54]

There was already a street vendor in China who looks exactly like him hehe

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/20/kebab-seller-man-looks-like-kim-jong-un_n_5000834.html

Which is which?

[robertthebruce]

Could you imagine living in a country like ''North Korea'' with these kind of demands, and what goes on..

Sorry, I would be out of there first chance i got..

[Faranguy]

Could you imagine living in a country like ''North Korea'' with these kind of demands, and what goes on..

Sorry, I would be out of there first chance i got..

Goodnight said the watchman. we are programmed to receive, you can check out anytime you like but you can never leave

Eagles

[mca]

my daughter is of the age where she's mooning over Korean boy bands and pestering me to take her to Korea so I downloaded some pics of pyong yang and told her it was Seoul. knocked that idea on the head for a while

[Shot]

Probably tough enough as a male NK Uni student to get laid. Separate dorms. Climbing over walls and dodging spot lights so you can see your girl. Someone always watching. No public affection. Cold, and lots of clothes to get out of if you make it past 3rd base. And now this?

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[frozin1]

Probably tough enough as a male NK Uni student to get laid. Separate dorms. Climbing over walls and dodging spot lights so you can see your girl. Someone always watching. No public affection. Cold, and lots of clothes to get out of if you make it past 3rd base. And now this?

Sounds like a great idea for a video game. Sort of redefines 1st person shooter in several ways.

F1

[Jonmarleesco]

Certainly one up on Moe, who leads only two stooges. But why not have the South mass produce them? Then can just wear them in public, take off at home.

[rickirs]

Actually a bobby-head of Kim Jong-un might be very popular in the North.

[amse]

How nice, now there will be a huge gang of Kim mini-mee's!

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[Maroon Watcher]

...and the girls have to have a "Korean"? - Like a Brazillian with a bush in the middle???

Chat up line - what does it take to see your Kim-jung un...

buy me a Suju and i'll tell you...

[speedtripler]

hes probabaly starting to get worried about being assinated .........so if everyone looks the same as him

it might be better for his health ...........

[ggt]

"it resembles Chinese smugglers"...reminds me of a really over-the-top...old fashioned "flat-top"...a 1950-60s...haircut popular in the US for a time...shows just what a egotistical maniac this character really is...GADS!

[Frank James]

A lot of the actors on "The Peaky Blinders" BBC tv show had that haircut, or very similar. Apparently it was the popular look in post-WW1 UK?

That regime is on its way down. Little Kimmy gonna get a big surprise.

[allan michaud]

[Benmart]

A haircut does not necessarily improve one's virtues. Ever so true in this case.

[nomimusic]

What happens if you have male pattern baldness? I think there could be a market for wigs made from dyed horse hair, am I wrong? One thing for sure, when given the choice to wear the haircut or go to a work camp, I think they will get the due. Here was the reaction when his father died, and it was reported some were imprisoned for not crying at the funeral. Watch this, a very sad act of either cry for a worthless piece of sh^* or face the wrath.

http://youtu.be/tZsVP2WoE9E

I don't post this pocking fun at the people, only the so called government. I do feel for the persecution the people of the North have endured under these regimes.

[Basil B]

Clarification...

Yesterday it was everybody, today report only says students?

Seems if the man at the top looks like a *** **** then everybody has too...

[Krataiboy]

Let's not ruin a good knocking story about a regime we don't like with the facts, eh? The first paragraph of the story says students are "required" to get the same haircut as their country's leader.

Later, the article admits the requirement is actually only "a guideline", which is hardly the same thing.

Later still, if one takes the trouble to read the rest of the BBC's latest piece of distorted anti-North Korea propaganda, we learn there are actually ten hairstyles from which male university students can choose - with girls having a choice of 18..

That's a lot more than are permitted in equivalent educational establishments in Thailand and many other so-called democratic countries. It also seems to indicate that the esteemed North Korean leader, as well as being an icon of male fashion, is also something of a feminist!

My daughter would give her eye teeth to be able to choose ANY hairstyle other than the ridiculously short and ugly bob she is forced to endure as a condition of attendance at her Thai secondary school.

[Wat dee]

I bet there's a lot of people worried if he's going to turn bald!

[Gulfsailor]

Let's not ruin a good knocking story about a regime we don't like with the facts, eh? The first paragraph of the story says students are "required" to get the same haircut as their country's leader.

Later, the article admits the requirement is actually only "a guideline", which is hardly the same thing.

Later still, if one takes the trouble to read the rest of the BBC's latest piece of distorted anti-North Korea propaganda, we learn there are actually ten hairstyles from which male university students can choose - with girls having a choice of 18..

That's a lot more than are permitted in equivalent educational establishments in Thailand and many other so-called democratic countries. It also seems to indicate that the esteemed North Korean leader, as well as being an icon of male fashion, is also something of a feminist!

My daughter would give her eye teeth to be able to choose ANY hairstyle other than the ridiculously short and ugly bob she is forced to endure as a condition of attendance at her Thai secondary school.

Although i agree that most stuff we read about N Korea is probably nearly ad much propagandized as what N Koreans read about the West, you are misstaken regarding the haircut in Thailand since last year.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/610792-thai-ministry-cuts-5cm-rule-on-schoolboys-hair-length/

Have a chat with the school...

[daveAustin]

And to think this loony has nuclear missiles

He hasn't, his army has crude plutonium bombs, which is a decent haircut away from miniaturized warheads on point and shoot rockets.

[hawker9000]

Let's not ruin a good knocking story about a regime we don't like with the facts, eh? The first paragraph of the story says students are "required" to get the same haircut as their country's leader.

Later, the article admits the requirement is actually only "a guideline", which is hardly the same thing.

Later still, if one takes the trouble to read the rest of the BBC's latest piece of distorted anti-North Korea propaganda, we learn there are actually ten hairstyles from which male university students can choose - with girls having a choice of 18..

That's a lot more than are permitted in equivalent educational establishments in Thailand and many other so-called democratic countries. It also seems to indicate that the esteemed North Korean leader, as well as being an icon of male fashion, is also something of a feminist!

My daughter would give her eye teeth to be able to choose ANY hairstyle other than the ridiculously short and ugly bob she is forced to endure as a condition of attendance at her Thai secondary school.

Ohhh, I suspect "guidelines" are NOT usually ignored in a place like N. Korea. Not for very long, anyway. And there's hardly any "knocking" this psychotic doesn't deserve.