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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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 Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject: Everybody wants to buy phony prof's t-shirt |
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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200709/200709060008.html
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Degree Fraudster Becomes Unwitting Taste-Maker
Bogus degree scandal originator Shin Jeong-ah has become a fashion trend-setter. When the former Dongguk University assistant professor was photographed at JFK Airport in New York in July, she was wearing a white cap, blue jeans and a gray t-shirt.
The t-shirt featured a print of two clowns in rumpled clothing. At first glance, it seems like any other cotton t-shirt. But even a month later netizens are still talking about the shirt on message boards, calling it "eye-catching" and wanting to know the brand.
The so-called "Shin shirt" was made by British designer Alexander McQueen, from his McQ line aimed at 20-somethings. McQ t-shirts usually cost around W200,000 (US$1=W938). The brand was only recently launched in Korea and is available at just one or two department stores in Seoul. Currently, it's hard to find the Shin shirt since it has short sleeves.
An official from a department store in Apgujeong said, "McQ products are sought mainly by young women looking for a unique casual style. A lot of people wanted to buy the Shin Jeong-ah t-shirt, but some have left empty-handed because we didn't have enough in stock."
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Masta_Don
Joined: 17 Aug 2006
Location: Hyehwa-dong, Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes, please let me pay $200 to have clowns on my shirt. |
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reactionary
Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Location: korreia
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| lol..clowns. real fitting. |
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idonojacs
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
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seoulsucker
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: The Land of the Hesitant Cutoff
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 2:21 am Post subject: |
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What's going to bring this whole thing full circle is when people start making fake copies of the shirt.  |
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idonojacs
Joined: 07 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Sez seoulsucker:
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| What's going to bring this whole thing full circle is when people start making fake copies of the shirt. |
What makes you think she's not wearing one? |
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:47 am Post subject: Re: Everybody wants to buy phony prof's t-shirt |
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| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| Currently, it's hard to find the Shin shirt since it has short sleeves. |
WTF? Am I looking at the same picture? |
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The Perfect Cup of Coffee
Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Everybody wants to buy phony prof's t-shirt |
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| Atavistic wrote: |
| Troll_Bait wrote: |
| Currently, it's hard to find the Shin shirt since it has short sleeves. |
WTF? Am I looking at the same picture? |
Yeah really. Is the reporter a 'tard or forgot to check their YBM-Sisa electronic dictionary? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:37 pm Post subject: |
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| idonojacs wrote: |
I had a housemate in college who actually had one on real black velvet on the wall of his bedroom! |
Oh man. Yes, there was a time if you had a custom van with an airbrushed image of an indian princess thrusting about in a macrame bikini in front of a teepee (or a nude woman riding a colonial Viper bareback) and you had a painting of Elvis on velvet hung up in your van's plush room, you were a man of wealth and taste. There could be no doubt about it. |
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