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North Korea: Male University Students Required To Get Kim Jong-un Haircuts
An anonymous reader writes in with one more reason not to accept that full-ride scholarship to a North Korea University. "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."
The good news about being late to post stories (that aren't for nerds and don't matter), is that they've already been debunked:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com...
Build it, and they will come^Hplain.
Stay frosty folks.
It's not true. Remember, you heard about it on the internet.
...at least it's not a mullet
I'm glad to hear they still have universities, or is that not true either?
I think it's just North Korea getting back at us for all The Onion stories they have fallen for.
It's North Korea who cares.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
Here in the US, males 26 and older are forced to buy health insurance that includes pregnancy, even though pregnancy isn't a health condition for males.
And it's not a fake until our hive says it's a fake.
News happens, our lessers comment on it, and then and only then, we release a quasi-official opinion.
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Ernest Hemingway
I can believe they have universities, the buildings at least, but I'm a little suspicious about the whole "student" thing.
...which sets forth new regulations for the proper appearance of new brides.
I can't determine with any confidence if they're actually serious or not.
And coming on tomorrow's /. news feed will be an article on Andrew Wakefield's new research discovery linking autism and vaccination...
Smuggling and the black market are the only thing keeping North Koreans alive.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
I'd take a Moe anyday. And it's so easy:
Phase 1: place bowl on head
Phase 2: ?
Phase 3: profit!
Our leader's haircut is very particular !
Sure that's because their leader's ass and face look the same.
Wonder what unlucky soul gets the job to pick which side is actually the face?
"Got a Devil's Haircut in My Mind ..."
So I guess the "murdering dictator haircut" is in good company.
tell you that they're a sane bunch here in south korea, but these guys are also nutbars..
Come on, it was a hoax
Too bad it's not true, because chicks dig that haircut.
I understand Jong-un is a real pussy magnet. At least that's what Dennis Rodman says.
You are welcome on my lawn.
No real comment, the subject mostly covers it. Batshit crazy. Or, if you are offended by that, then try crazy as a shithouse rat. Pick one. Should not be allowed to emit sperm as its damaging to the human genome. Try this: Batshit crazy as a shithouse rat. Now go get a haircut!
The country has a nuclear program. They have every modern thing. They just don't have it for everyone. Why is it always americans that think every other coutry is a dirthole? I've travelled around, and can honestly say most modern feeling is not found in americas dying cities. Never been to north korea, but from what i've seen the places they like to show off look very nice. The "no adds on walls" law seem very nice.
"Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it." - George Orwell
I felt the need to share that fact since propagandists always seem to omit it. He would have scoffed at your wage laborer remarks.
Until the mid-2000s
Oh shit, they've got time travel!
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
what
There are lines of male university students which extend for several city blocks...
Could the Dear leader be wrong?
After all, haircut #7 looks better. But objectively speaking, my subjective meaning might not matter.
PS: I guess all responses should hence forth be sent me C/O camp #14.
The Qing Dynasty actually did require males to have the same haircut. China, not Korea, but ideas can spread across borders, even North Korea's
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Debunked? Maybe this time, but story was not too far from the truth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let%27s_trim_our_hair_in_accordance_with_the_socialist_lifestyle
I long for days of old when I could rock the KJU cut! .. in theory.
The amount of disinformation is astounding.
In Soviet Russia, head (of state) shaves you!
Have gnu, will travel.
"Ha ha! North Koreans have absurd hairstyles." This is the level of discourse surrounding North Korea in western media. Do you know what is actually absurd (other than western media)? A whole country that worships it's head of state like a god despite the Kim family's dreadful mismanagement. A civilization that is trying very hard to emulate a bee hive is rather dire from an individual rights standpoint and incredibly fascinating in terms of sociology.
It's hard enough to tell them apart as it is now.
The real story is that Male will have to remove several inches of their little Kim Jong... to match their leader.
lamer
I take it you don't have a mother then.
Some of my insurance premiums go to pay for other people's pregnancy, but somebody elses premiums went to help pay for my mother's pregnancies. This kind of general cheapness and self centered attitude is what's ruining the US. Nobody wants to pay for anything unless there's an immediate and obvious pay out for them. We've got rich people that are outraged that the poor might have some choices in their life. You've got "Christians" that are outraged that their non-Christian or different denomination Christians are being provided with birth control on their dime.
Really, y'all just need to shove a sock in it before you completely ruin the country.
When Orwell was alive you could be a socialist and not be complete idiot. We've had another 100 years of history to inform us. That is no longer true.
The defects in Socialism are inherent. There is no fixing it.
John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'
I pooped my pants when I saw this