I recently entered the 20th century and purchased a DVD / VCR combo device. Now that I have this device, I’ve been watching a lot more m-net (Korean music video channel). You see, as a side effect of my study of Korean and my subsequent relocation to Korea, my younger sister, got into Korean pop music. So now I have a VCR again, and as a service to her taped a bunch of music videos and “live” events off the music channel. While the random videos rolled, I noticed a deeply disturbing trend…there are way too many Korean singers rocking braided hair. Below are some examples:
I think these guys are called Side-B. Not that it’s really important. What is important is the guy in blue’s wack hair.
Usually hot member of Jewlery (the one on the right) totally ruins her look by adding some redankulous braids. The one next to her makes up for it by oozing sex.
Maybe it’s just me, but they only people who can pull off braids without looking like complete wankers are black people. Sorry white college girl who just got back from a trip to the Bahamas, those braids make you look like a moron too. Anyhow, I prayed that perhaps this trend was just something celebrities were doing, like Puffy Daddy and his shiney moon suits he rocked for awhile. The other day I went to 동대문…and as usual, my prayers were not answered. Countless regular people (male and female) were sporting this horrific braids. Perhaps the worst were the girls who had white string braided in with their hair. Seriously it made their heads look like a mops.
And then I found this….Crazy Head (see photo at right), a hair shop in Hongdae specializing in bestowing this bad hair upon the populous of Korea. That means that there is enough demand for this kind of hair for a speciality shop to exist. It’s going to be a long spring, but at least they aren’t sporting mullets!
