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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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 Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 5:38 pm Post subject: Students Demonstrate Against Hair Code |
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean high school students plan to hold more rallies to protest restrictions on hair length and style in the country's notoriously regimented education system, an organizer said Wednesday.
Students often face enormous pressure and grueling hours in the South Korean school system, where failure to get into a handful of prestigious colleges can shatter career prospects.
But in a rare outburst in this Confucian society, some normally deferential high-school students have tried to draw the line at hair.
"Teachers apply standardized rules to students and that results in harsh measures from teachers," said Lee Jun-haeng, 20, an organizer of a recent protest in the capital Seoul.
In some cases teachers have even forcibly cut a student's hair in the classroom when their locks were deemed too long.
Lee, who runs a Web site (www.nocut.idoo.net) on the issue that he says get more than 200,000 visitors a day, termed a protest last weekend in central Seoul a success.
Media reports said about 70 students took part in the protest and many students hid their faces to avoid being identified. Riot police flanked the demonstrators.
Lee said further protests were planned for the cities of Taegu and Kwangju Saturday.
The protesters appear to be having some impact.
Education Minister Kim Jin-pyo has said he would ask schools to revise the rules to ensure they were not too harsh, Yonhap News agency reported.
One government agency, the National Human Rights Commission in Korea, also said it would look into petitions from students to see whether the rules violated human rights.
But some teachers have expressed concern that loosening the rules could lead to a deterioration in discipline and suggested the students should focus their energies on studying
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here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050518/od_nm/korea_hair_dc |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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| But some teachers have expressed concern that loosening the rules could lead to a deterioration in discipline and suggested the students should focus their energies on studying |
Bloody hell... which century do we live in? How does allowing students to grow their hair result in a deterioration in discipline?! And why do they think that hair = discipline????!!!! When I went to school, we were allowed to have long hair, we just had to tie it back. No problem. Teachers didn't use hair length as a form of discipline.
Good on the students to take a stance. It's TOTALLY ridiculous that kids are told they must have short hair. May be if the teachers are nicer to the kids, the kids will feel a little more motivated to study...
Gosh, I am so angry that they use discipline as an excuse!!!!!!  |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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It happens at my school:
Though in fairness, they usually cut about 1 cm to "scare" the student, and tell them to get a real cut that night. They have a maximum length... I forget what that is. |
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Guri Guy
Joined: 07 Sep 2003
Location: Bamboo Island
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:37 am Post subject: |
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North Koreans would be proud.  North Korean scientists did a study on long hair.
It stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence development", noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4157121.stm |
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brento1138
Joined: 17 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| Guri Guy wrote: |
North Koreans would be proud. North Korean scientists did a study on long hair.
It stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence development", noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4157121.stm |
Hahaha! North Korean scientists said that!!???? Good, I now know that we have nothing to fear about them making an atomic weapon! Seems these "scientists" are more like World Weekly News writers gone-bad. Err, worse, I should say... |
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JacktheCat
Joined: 08 May 2004
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:12 am Post subject: |
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Score one for the students!
After a lengthy debate the Korean government has handed down this ruling:
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"The freedom of hair length should be regarded as a basic human right," the National Human Rights Commission of Korea said in a news release. "To cut hair against a student's will is a human rights infringement."
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Almost cut my hair....
God help this country. I don't care how scruffy my students are. It's what's within that really counts.
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mishlert
Joined: 13 Mar 2003
Location: On the 3rd rock from the sun
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 3:34 am Post subject: |
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| Though in fairness |
There is nothing fair about it, period. |
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FUBAR
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: The Y.C.
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:06 am Post subject: |
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| I think they tried a rally like this already with few students attending. I was told the girls at my school did not go to school b/c they had 'spies' who were there looking to identify the 'troublemakers' who attended the demonstration. I imagine the turnout will be low this time as well. I really don't see students rushing to demonstrate just after they finished their final exams. |
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joe_doufu
Joined: 09 May 2005
Location: Elsewhere
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| Everybody in this country is out to capture and re-inforce power over others whenever they can. Teachers like the hair-cutting because it makes them feel power over the students. And in a power dispute between weak and strong, few Koreans are going to take the side of the students. (Unless the students win.) |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 4:14 am Post subject: |
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| not going to change. basically the schools will keep doing what they want, but just tone it down a bit. As technically it's illegal to hit students but we all know the reality. |
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krats1976
Joined: 14 May 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:10 am Post subject: |
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I have a student who transferred over from Korean school this year. One of her favorite things about going to a foreign school is that there is no restriction on hair.  |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:59 am Post subject: |
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If school administration is going to make a big deal out of girls having long hair, they need to do the same to the boys who have pimpy-looking gelled hairstyles, too.
Neither is fair, but justice should be meted out equally amongst the sexes.
So says...
Sparkles*_* |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:04 am Post subject: |
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| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
If school administration is going to make a big deal out of girls having long hair, they need to do the same to the boys who have pimpy-looking gelled hairstyles, too.
Neither is fair, but justice should be meted out equally amongst the sexes.
So says...
Sparkles*_* |
yup in my school boys get a gym teacher special when their hair is too long. Also they aren't allowed to wear gel in their hair at school. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:19 am Post subject: |
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| crazylemongirl wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
If school administration is going to make a big deal out of girls having long hair, they need to do the same to the boys who have pimpy-looking gelled hairstyles, too.
Neither is fair, but justice should be meted out equally amongst the sexes.
So says...
Sparkles*_* |
yup in my school boys get a gym teacher special when their hair is too long. Also they aren't allowed to wear gel in their hair at school. |
It must be different in Bundang; I see guys in their uniforms with hair like Colin Farrell.
Sparkles*_* |
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