Two students at the University of Sydney, 24-year-old Aleksa Vulovic and 25-year-old Alex Apollonov, read a lot of news reports about North Korea online, one of which mentioned, North Korea has enacted a strict haircut to determine what is legal and what is prohibited in North Korea. Not only that, but also specifically listed the legal hairstyle in North Korea, men and women have only 15 options, of course, Kim Jong un's iconic hairstyle is prohibited.
15 legal men's hairstyles
15 legal female hairstyles
However, in 2014, a number of other well-known news sites also published such news, in North Korea all men must have the same haircut as Kim Jong-un.
So, with curiosity about the 'closed' country covered by a number of news websites, the two students each spent 2000 Australian dollars last July on a six-day goverment group visit. The goal is to go to the 'field trip' to see if such a haircut law really exists in North Korea.
After arriving in Pyongyang, Vulovic, on the recommendation of his tour guide, went to a local hair salon and began an 'expedition'.
This is what he looked like before he cut his hair.
To verify the existence of a hairstyle law, he deliberately chose a hairstyle that was completely different from the 15 'legal hairstyles' listed online, telling barbers' they wanted to have a haircut on both sides of the stylish haircut. Then blow the front hair fluffy point, beard and make a personality shape'.
Unexpectedly, the hairdresser, after listening, nodded happily and began to cut her hair according to his request.
This is what it looks like after the cut.
I have to say, the barber's haircut is still quite high. Even Vulovic admits: "it's better than any barber I cut in Australia. And at that time there were a lot of local people in the shop to cut their hair. "
So, through this experiment, the two students found that the previous news about the North Korean haircut law was completely bullshit, and they also said: "through this matter, let us understand, as a reader, "We can't just believe in mainstream media or news sites about North Korea, because maybe some of the stories are completely false, such as this."
Vulovic and Apollonov recorded their haircut trip, about 20 minutes long, with a SLR. They uploaded the small screen to YouTube and named it "haircut: North Korea's Adventure (The Haircut: A North Korean Adventure)."
In this shooting, they said, "because of North Korea's policy, foreigners are not allowed to shoot without approval, and as tourists, there is a limit on the time and number of shots, so they can only shoot with small SLR." This will avoid being 'questioned' by local officials. "
Soon after the video was uploaded to YouTube last week, it had nearly 20000 views. Vulovic said he had not received any comments from the North Korean authorities on the video, adding: "We really violated some of the North Korean rules." So I'm hesitant to go there again. "
As tensions over North Korea's nuclear weapons escalate, North Korea and the United States have increasingly strained political relations. Opening up Western news websites is all about 'negative' news from North Korea, and for North Korea, a 'closed' country, Many people can only learn from the news, but if this distortion of news, the common people will have a false understanding of North Korea. So the brave students' field trip'is no doubt a powerful attack on fake news and stories that have spread in the mainstream media. As they say, we should also be skeptical of mainstream media news and cannot be foolishly believed.