{"id":52926,"date":"2022-10-05T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52926"},"modified":"2022-10-04T11:38:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T02:38:29","slug":"north-korea-cracks-down-copycats-famous-performer-bowl-cut-hairstyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-cracks-down-copycats-famous-performer-bowl-cut-hairstyle\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea cracks down on copycats of famous performer&#8217;s &#8220;bowl cut&#8221; hairstyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Singer Jung Hongran\u2019s &#8220;bowl cut&#8221; hairstyle has recently become a hot topic among North Koreans, with her unusually distinctive hairstyle meeting an enthusiastic response especially among young North Koreans.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWhen Jung Hongran appeared at the festivities for the 74th anniversary of the DPRK\u2019s founding with that unusual hairstyle, people were shocked,\u201d a source in Nampo told Daily NK last Wednesday. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of talk about how the style is a great fit for women with long faces and large foreheads, and that it\u2019s nice because it\u2019s so unique.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, Jung had previously aroused curiosity when she appeared with a bowl cut hairstyle for her 7.27 Victory Day performance, but it was her repeat appearance with the bowl cut at the 9.9 holiday festivities that triggered a<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">surge in interest<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">among young North Koreans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This in turn has reportedly led to a dramatic increase in the number of college students and young people referencing Jung\u2019s hair and requesting copycat styles at home-run barber shops.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to this trend, many stylists at private barber shops are advising their clientele that, \u201cfrom an expert\u2019s point of view, Jung\u2019s bowl cut doesn\u2019t look good on just anyone. It best suits young women with long faces and wide foreheads.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This short hairstyle with bangs, often referred to in South Korea as a \u201cmushroom cut\u201d or \u201cChocoboy cut\u201d (referencing a mushroom-shaped chocolate candy), is now called \u201cthe Jung Hongran bowl cut\u201d in North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, Daily NK understands that the government agency charged with curbing \u201canti-socialist and non-socialist activity\u201d is cracking down on young people, college students, and housewives copying Jung\u2019s hairstyle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter the 7.27 performance, there actually wasn\u2019t much of a reaction to her hairstyle. But when she came out with the same look for the 9.9 Day performance, people started saying that her hairstyle was truly one-of-a-kind north of the 38th Parallel,\u201d the source said. \u201cJung has been gaining popularity after appearing with her unique hairstyle, and now female college students and young working women in Nampo are copying the look one after another.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNampo\u2019s Unified Command [the group policing anti-socialist and non-socialist activity] is strictly cracking down on people copying Jung Hongran\u2019s hairstyle and are camping out to catch offenders on the street and in front of universities. Officials say the look is a \u2018capitalistic delinquent style\u2019<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and point out that, \u2018A performer\u2019s hair is approved as part of her national attire for her performance, how is [copying her hair] the same?\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regarding moves to suppress the bowl cut trend among young people, the source said that people see the government\u2019s double standard as absurd. They ask: \u201c[Why] is it fine that when Jung Hongran stands in front of the whole nation with that hairstyle and sings, but when we do the same thing, we\u2019re delinquents?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Rose Adams.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220928-1\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer Jung Hongran\u2019s &#8220;bowl cut&#8221; hairstyle has recently become a hot topic among North Koreans, with her unusually distinctive hairstyle meeting an enthusiastic response especially among young North Koreans.\u00a0 \u201cWhen Jung Hongran appeared at the festivities for the 74th anniversary of the DPRK\u2019s founding with that unusual hairstyle, people were shocked,\u201d a source in Nampo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":52929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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