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Smee
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Location: Jeollanam-do
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 Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:53 pm Post subject: Student punished for having brown hair. |
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From the Hankyoreh, via Korea Beat. Pretty ugly stuff:
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Jeon, who is 16 and a first-year student at a girls� high school in Seoul, cannot forget her first day there. On the first day of school � the 3rd � she could not open the school doors. She had to stand in front of them for over 40 minutes.
The naturally brown-haired Jeon was suspected of having dyed her hair and was berated. She told the teacher that, �this is my natural hair color� but to no avail. Her mother came to the school over this problem and was told, �you must bring proof that this is her natural hair color.� As a new student Jeon does not have a student ID and has been punished from that day forward.
Curly hair is treated the same. Lee, 17 and a student at a high school in Seoul, was ordered to cut his hair. He said, �even though I explained that I was born with curly hair, the teacher told me that perms are not allowed and in the end I had to cut it really short. At our school we don�t have photo IDs so I had no choice except to cut it short.�
Recently schools have been requiring students with naturally colored or curly hair to obtain proof. Students with naturally-colored hair must get confirmation form their parents and teacher and keep the proof with them when they go to school. A large number of schools in Seoul, including Ilshin girls� High School, Gyeonggi Girls� High School, Daewon Girls� High School, Dongmyeong Girls� High School, and Seomun Girls� High School, issue the ID cards.
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| The �natural hair ID cards� are a �solution� to the issue. But there are many schols which don�t have the cards yet have no problems, so there appear to be no significant results from them, because the educational authorities� call for �curly or colored hair� as the enforcement standard exposes a cramped view of standardization. Already in our society 1 in 8 marriages are international. Perhaps in the future students will also need �natural skin color ID cards� and �natural eye color ID cards�. |
The rest here: http://koreabeat.com/?p=870 |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I also hate people with brown hair. |
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mikekim
Joined: 11 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Geez how can you prove your hair color, straightness?
Is this CSI? |
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crescent
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: yes.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:25 pm Post subject: |
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| mikekim wrote: |
| Geez how can you prove your hair color, straightness? |
Match it to one of your pubes? \ |
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Frankly Mr Shankly
Joined: 13 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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You must not have the brown hair. Corea peepres is the brack hair! You must change your think, must be like the Corea peepres. Corea peepres are so the kind!
Man, am I ever glad to be out of that prace. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Another Head-In-Arse moment brought to you by [C]orea. |
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Dome Vans
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| crescent wrote: |
| mikekim wrote: |
| Geez how can you prove your hair color, straightness? |
Match it to one of your pubes? \ |
Yep. This is the one sure fire way to find out if she has 'fire down below'. |
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aldershot
Joined: 17 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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damn, man... everybody's gotta look the same, everybody's gotta think the same, walk the same, smell the same...
...all in all they are all just bricks in the wall. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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If I had kids I would never allow them to go to any school that required uniforms, let alone ridiculous things like hair colour regulations.
What would this school do if they had an exchange student who was blonde? |
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cheeseface
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
Location: Ssyangnyeon Shi
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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| Yet another reason not to have children in this glorious sparkling paradise called Korea. |
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cheeseface
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
Location: Ssyangnyeon Shi
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:42 pm Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
What would this school do if they had an exchange student who was blonde? |
Teachers taking turns to look at the kid's pubes?  |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| mikekim wrote: |
Geez how can you prove your hair color, straightness?
Is this CSI? |
You can tell whether or not it's been permed by spraying water on it and looking at how the water beads. And colour isn't a problem if you just tell the kids with brownish hair that they have to get it dyed black. I really don't see what's so complicated about it. |
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cheeseface
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Yu_Bum_suk wrote: |
| And colour isn't a problem if you just tell the kids with brownish hair that they have to get it dyed black. I really don't see what's so complicated about it. |
What! So everyone must look the same!!! 
Christ!!! Even the Nazi's didn't get everyone to dye their hair blond........
But I suppose this is Korea  sparkling  |
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jetrash
Joined: 02 Jun 2007
Location: the united steaks
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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| if people start looking different,they might start thinking different...and we cant have that in a worlde-classe country that has already achieved perfection. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:49 pm Post subject: |
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It seems the schools in Seoul and area are much more conservative than the schools in the provinces. In my little country sized city, girls have all shades of brown, perms and some physically have funky combs and colored perm curls in their hair. It's obvious that some are dying and perming their hair. I guess as long as someone doesn't come to school with green hair, it's alright.
It seems the teachers don't care or are worried, if they act on it, that some reporter from Seoul will accuse them of being ultra-conservative. |
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