Kim Jong-un, beloved leader of 24 million citizens of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, has ordered that all male university students are now required to get the same haircuts his very own.
Lucky Nork guys. No more guesswork about hair styles. Buzz, snip, snip, shave, shave, product, and done. Every university man looks like Kim. Sort of.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a genuine workers' state in which all the people are completely liberated from exploitation and oppression. The workers, peasants, soldiers and intellectuals are the true masters of their destiny and are in a unique position to defend their interests.Says the DPK's official website.
The "liberated from exploitation and oppression" part must not apply to hairstyles, nor does the "masters of their destiny part." Or maybe it's something lost in translation. Anyhow, the university guys probably aren't crazy about the mandated haircut.
"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'."Lucky for the Nork women, they get to choose their hairstyles from any of eighteen government allowable coifs, while university men get the Kim Jong-un 90's grunge hairstyle.
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