North Korea, is a country in East Asia. It covers 55 per cent of the peninsula. The capital of North Korea is Pyongyang. This country is bordered by Russia, China and South Korea to the south. In 1950, after years of hostilities between the two countries, North Korea Invaded South Korea and tried to form a leadership Under their rule and this war continued till 1953 neither the countries won the war then ended in a stalemate. This has caused the division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea. Presently, North Korea is ruled by the authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un.
North Korea is one of the most repressive countries in the world and has inflicted fear among the countries of the world by ruthless actions like testing nuclear weapons and pointing missiles at South Korea and so on. This has caused world countries to feel threatened by the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un. Not only this, people of their own country try to escape and live in the neighbour country.
People who live in North Korea feel this as a Nightmare and one day they wanted to escape to experience sweet dreams. But what makes them escape their motherland? The weird rules were set and the people were treated as a toy. It’s not a democratic country at all to breathe freedom air and every action of people is under control. One of the things that are controlled by them is hairstyles. Yes, there are around 30 hairstyles for both men and women to follow and if you are seen with a hairstyle apart from the 30, you will be rewarded with punishment.
The hairstyles they mentioned are taken from the previous generations in short old-fashioned. You can’t see men with spikes or using gel for hair and women with layer cuts or bob hairstyles. It was also said that a few years ago men were asked to copy the hairstyle of Kim Jong Un and women were asked to copy the hairstyle of Kim Jong un’s wife’s classic bob. If anyone is seen breaching the rule, officials will do their haircut along with punishments even Makeup is not allowed to express beauty.
Here are the pre-defined hairstyles for both men and women
North Korean Men’s Hairstyles:
North Korean Men can choose from these 15 approved haircut styles. Men are prohibited to grow hair longer than 5 cm less than 2 inches while older men can grow up to 7cm and 3 inches. You can see here in the pictures that these styles don’t include spiky hair, gel hair, fringe or any colouring and these styles are not suitable for ordinary occasions. It is the whole resemblance of Previous generation hairstyles. Even Kim Jong Un’s Current hairstyle is one of them.
North Korean Women’s Hairstyles:
These are hermit state’s approved 15 hairstyles for women. Here, women are allowed to have a hairstyle based on their marital status. Married Women are allowed to keep their tresses short while unmarried is allowed to let loose for longer and can have curlier locks at the bottom. One can also have a minor feather cut. Like earlier, These are the styles adopted from the `1980s. Here you can’t see trending hairstyles like a pixie, bob cut or layered even they can’t braid the hair if they wanted to. Instead of forcing people to have one hairstyle for their whole life, at least they get to choose one from these 15 hairstyles and can change it whenever they wanted.
