Korean Job Discussion Forums

huck · Joined: 19 Jan 2003

This is for the guys out there......do you guys like your Korean haircut? All of the places I've got to have done a fairly nice job, however, when they are cutting the sides, they always shave that Korean line into my head, the extra short cut which extends an inch or two above the ears, and follows the edge of the hairline.

so, in order to fix this, i was wondering if anyone has seen any clippers for sale - in seoul? or has anyone bought clippers that work pretty well?

thanks

huck finn, esquire

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

I've given up

I just go in with a photo and say i want this.

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

I get a great cut out at the front gate of my school. Of couse maybe others don't think so, but I like it... 6,000 won.

Howard Roark · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Canada

I'll never forget the first time my boyfriend got his hair cut here. He came back with one side of his head buzzed off. He wasn't paying attention and when he looked in the mirror he freaked and took off, without paying, with only one side done. When he came home I thought he had done it on purpose - "what the f... did you do to your hair!!!"
I went with him every time after. And if they pulled out those clippers we said "NO!!!"

ryleeys · Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MD

If they cut off my sideburns one more friggin' time I'm gonna gouge someone's eyes out.

The last time I told them to not touch the sides, so what do they do? They cut the top way short and the sideburns are all long... like a reverse hair cut.

I hate getting my haircut here.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

For awhile, I had a good haircut to start with.. and I was able to keep getting the same similar haircut. That was great.

However one haircut they messed it all up.. and now I can't seem to find or ask or describe how it use to be cut that I liked. They just do a shorter version of the bad one i have now.

Hmm..

inexhile · Joined: 18 Feb 2003

Korean hairdressers are butchers. I have a prominent scar on my head that is always exposed after a visit to the K stylers. I always try to indicate that it should be covered but they always leave it blindingly exposed, maybe its a virility thing in K culture.
I once got a dead ringer for a Hitler combover, I left it in so my mates could have a laugh and went goosestepping around Pohang.

animalbirdfish · Joined: 04 Feb 2004

Korean hairdressers have a real love of the electric clippers and, if they had their way, i'd end up with uniform length, bowl haircut everytime. I once managed to convey to my barber that I didn't want my hair to be all the same length, that I wanted a slightly choppy look to the top. That took some doin'. Now, I don't let them use the electric clippers on my head, only the scissors/shears, as this keeps them from doing that awful shave-thing to the sides and back of my head.

As in your home country, it helps if you can find one person to cut your hair every time and who understands what you want. Fortunately, the owner of my local hair shops speaks good English, so I've been lucky.

wylde · Joined: 14 Apr 2003

our hair is very different to asian hair. their hair is think and strong while ours is fine and soft.

i was getting a cut once and i could understand in gestures and broken korean that the hairdresser was telling her friend that she was baffled as to why my hair didnt spike out like a koreans does.

in general i think they do quite well with my mess. i have received 10 times worse jobs in australia.

phaedrus · Joined: 13 Nov 2003 Location: I'm comin' to get ya.

I hate it when they use the thinning shears. I have lots of hair coverage, but just like my father's it is starting to thin out. The thinning shears make my fine hair stick to my head. There's no jungle to thin out.......

The worst is that they like to leave the front a little long. I like a nice short cut, especially around the ears, but I hate it when they do the rest of my head perfect, but the darn front is 10 year old's style.

mithridates · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

When someone gets a bad haircut here, is it mostly due to the lack of Korean ability, or is it their tendancy to cut hair for someone as if they were Korean? I'm thinking it's about 50/50...as for me I've yet to have a bad haircut here, but I drill them before we start:

"Similar to the one I have now, don't touch the sideburns! Don't shave too much in the back!"
"Okay!"
"What did I say about the sideburns?"
"Don't touch!"
"That's right! What did I say about the razor in the back?"
"Don't use it too much! Understood!"

And that's when they are allowed to start^^

aussie col · Joined: 31 Jan 2004

For the funniest hair cut experience (not the best, but funny) got to that mens chain of hairdressers that have some sort of blue nautical theme going (sorry can't remember the name). You'll know one when you see one because the salon looks like a sailing ship inside and the assistants wear a little sailor costume.... very strange.

I was having a shitty day when i went into one but after couldn't stop laughing for 2 days. First, as i'm getting my hair cut the gay looking assistant just stood their smiling at me in his little gay sailor suit. the funniest this is at the end of the hair cut the hairdresser pulls a vacuum cleaner hose out of the wall and proceeds to vacuum your head to remove any loose hair. this just cracked me up as i've never had my head vacuumed before. they didn't find it as funny as i did.

after the hair cut you get taken into the back of the shop, are given an apron and left to wash you own hair in the sink. and then shown a selection of brushes and styling product so you can style your own hair.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

djsmnc · Joined: 20 Jan 2003 Location: Dave's ESL Cafe

I am a whiny metrosexual when it comes to getting a good haircut (not about anything else)...I shopped around a bit my first time here...If you don't live in Apgujeong and don't have 30,000 won to spend on one haircut, I suggest Park Seung Chul hair studio. There's about 100+ shops throughout the Seoul area, and I think most of them have at least one person who can understand your request in English. The stylists are more professionally trained, and the price is 10,000 won usually. No more conformist Asian schoolboy bowl-cuts for me! Fade that line baby!!!

Jasmine · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Hongkers!

Stay away from Avatar hair salon in Gwangju. I went with Katydid who can vouch for me. I spent 7 months growing my hair out so that I could have long, flowy hair on the beach when I went to Thailand. I was so excited to get a nice perm with big, flowy curls. I was going to look great! Yeah right! I took the picture of the hair I wanted to the girl and told her I wanted that "pumuh". I told her, don't cut it, just curl it.

Hack, hack, hack, go the scissors....

Me: "What are you doing???"

Hair Dresser from Hell: "Layuhs...yepudah!" she said

Me: "I don't want layers, I just want curly hair all one length"

HDFH: "Layuhs, yepudah"

Me: "Layuhs, UNyepudah...just curl it"

Then she says "ok" and that she's just going to trim it to get the dead ends off...fine...whatever.

Hack, hack, hack...

Katydid: "Uhm, Jasmine...all your hair is on the floor and you have a giant hole in the back of your head"

Me: *touches back of head and starts to cry* "Oh,my God, what did you do to me"

HDFH: "Layuhs, yepudah"

Me: "I told you I didn't want any %^*&ing layers you stupid *%&$... it's not even layered..it's just a giant hole in the back of my head!!!" *stomps out of the shop without paying*"...flips the HDFH the bird.

I had to go to another shop - they were horrified to see what the HDFH did to my head and the only way they could save it was to cut it to my ears in a bob...
moral of the story? Don't trust a Korean with scissors... Twisted Evil