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North Korea: Male University Students Required To Get Kim Jong-un Haircuts

Posted by samzenpus on from the I'll-get-an-un dept.

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."

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  1. Debunked. by oneiros27 · · Score: 5, Informative

    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...

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    1. Re:Debunked. by desertfool · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Kind of sad what Slashdot has become. When CNN is already reporting this as a fake, for it to appear here is a joke.

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    2. Re:Debunked. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      That's not in doubt, that article even referenced the fact.

      Yeah it references it by saying:

      And photos of suggested hairstyles posted outside women’s hair salons — the kind of photos a customer points at to speed up the explanation process — 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.

      Emphasis added.

  2. Getting back at us? by beernutmark · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it's just North Korea getting back at us for all The Onion stories they have fallen for.