The bottom line: Don’t look “foreign.” This may seem odd from a man whose name is often linked with a love of foreign films, foreign actresses, and foreign hairdos. Or from a country whose new 5,000-won bill shows founding leader Kim Il-Sung in a Western suit. But it was the sight of a female sales clerk with a “foreign” hairdo spurred Kim Jong-il’s mournful query : “Is she really our own Korean woman? Why is she giving up our own traditional beauty and choosing to model bad foreign habits of the capitalist?”
The buzz in Pyongyang: get a haircut / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
