Capita List: North Korea Approves 28 Model Socialist Hairstyles

The 28 state-approved haircuts. Kim Jong-un’s own 1990s grunge style is curiously not among them.

[Ed. Note: Coming to America soon? ~Kerry.]

by Maggie Kuo and Charlie Storrar
Want China Times

It’s not just nuclear weapons proliferating on the Korean peninsula these days. In a move that for once is not considered a threat to regional and global security, the North Korean government has recommended a relatively generous range of 28 hairstyles for its citizens, claiming that they are “the most comfortable” styles and capable of warding off the corrupting effects of capitalism, according to ifeng.com, a news website run by Hong Kong’s Phoenix TV network.

Pictures can be seen on the walls of hair salons around the country showing the approved styles for men and women. Spiky hair is forbidden, as are quiffs — the nation has learned the baleful lesson from the decadent South that outrageous hairstyles may lead to the formation of effete boy bands or to pervasive mental health problems whereby people hallucinate riding invisible horses. Under no circumstances should you enter a North Korean barber shop and ask for your hair to be cut “Gangnam Style.”

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