A netizen at Media Daum posts that a Japanese TV morning program made fun of Korea’s now popular “mushroom hairdo.”
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Dirty Japs Make Fun of Korean Hairdos!
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That hair style has been around since the 1960s–look at old Beatles and Stones album covers.
I thought at first they were making fun of the standard Korean guys haircut with the whitewalls, which really does make them look like mushroom heads.
You can’t take fashion criticism too seriously when it’s coming from the country that invented loligoth.
Could it be payback for a show that was aired here in the late 90s called something along the lines of “Let’s Make Fun of Other Cultures?” Apparently it was hosted by the same comedian who was recently up in arms over his missus knobbing a French Chef.
I happened to see this morning show. No deregatory comments, only reports about the new trend in Korea that mushroom cut is again “in” due to success of a certain Korean actress in a popular drama.
By the way, is it TRUE that mushroom cuts is gaining popularity among youngsters in S.Korea?
Is it bad that when I see the word ‘Mushroom hairdo’, I’m thinking of something else entirely different?
Apparently the segment wasn’t even about the hair, but about the city of Junju. Methinks a reporter forgot this week’s deadline and needed to whip up something quick.
#4, I’ll be buggered, that is why my mate’s GF turned up at his place the other day looking like a cross between a pageboy and a ‘tard.
Damn, I spend so much time and energy openly making fun of Korean fashion trends to anyone who’ll listen (and many who don’t) for several years, and Daum doesn’t even notice.
But these Japanese Johnny-come-latelys air ONE episode on morning TV, and they get their own web-bash thread.
Why do I even bother?
Terribly stupid looking haircut!
Deserves to be made fun of!
Oh boy… as if the Japanese don’t have crazy shit of their own…
http://akii.fc2web.com/culturepages/aspect.html
But any ways, it’s a TV show. Relax people.
Did the Korean netizen really say “dirty Japs”?
No, that was Robert. He’s been on a roll these past days.
It never can stay buried for long before it bursts it’s way out of hiding.
Someone had to break it to the poor Koreans. 1/4 of my students look like extras in a Monty Python mediaeval movie.
Damn! they even made fun of the baby.
But of course next month in Japan they will be wearing it too. So I don’t know why they are hating.
Ahhhh…the “Mushroom” haircut…and here I’ve been calling it the “Penis-head” style all this time.
#4
Yes, it seems like every other girl here is rockin’ the penis head.
#4,
Yes, maybe…but we all know how things have the tendency of being lost in translation in Korea.
Besides, doesn’t everybody know it’s an ugly haircut? I thought it was part of its appeal.
Why the hell am I in France??? This flag generator thing is friggin awesome…
It’s hard to judge based on the video stills, but the tone seems lighthearted. The caption on the fourth photo, “個性!” (개성; individuality, originality), is probably sarcastic. The other captions note that men, too, and even mannequins have adopted the look. This show could have easily been poking fun at a Japanese trend. No kenkanryu to see here, folks. Just move along.
correction: photo caption actually reads “個性的,” individual or original.
#11, I don’t agree with you about Marmot being a dirty racist bomb waiting to explode. If the Korean netizen didn’t say “dirty Japs” then maybe Marmot was just being colorful, but I guess he should be more careful not to give people the wrong idea.
Personally I like the hairdo. Anything is preferable to the ‘Betty Boop’ that was ubiquitous in South Korea in the early to mid 1980s.
When every woman in Japan under the age of 40 dyed their hair brown, red, or blonde back in the mid 90s, I knew it was time to leave the Far East. Glad that some Korean females still have that luscious black hair!
Hopefully, this “mushroom hairdo” or as I would put it, the Korean Afro, would go down in history along with polyester suits, pork-chop mustaches and knee-high tube socks into the dustbin category of “what the fuck was I thinking back then?”
couples hair cuts anyone?…..
Where is my sword Squire!!!
If you look at the comments section for the Daum Agora post, you’ll know that most Korean netizens are criticising the user’s apparent stupidity.
Read the comments before you criticise!
# 11 & # 17,
Rob was just being sarcastic…
So is 서인영’s Pinnochio-sized rhinoplasty augmentation going to catch on like her hair-do? (I don’t mean nosejobs, I mean super-sized nosejobs.) As long as her attitude doesn’t catch on.
With both guys and gals sporting mushroom hair and the increasing popularity of the “metrosexual” look it’s becoming difficult to tell the guys and gals apart.
If any Koreans are genuinely upset by any of this and they want to stick it to the Japanese, all they need do is change the name of the hair style from “mushroom” to “Hiroshima”.
Korean women still generally have much better hair – and hairstyles – than their Japanese counterparts. Judging from the tourists you see in Myeongdong,the goal seems to be to make the hair look as dry, thin and mousy as possible.
I’ve seen this terrible do on many highschool boys. When they add the oversized black-rimmed glasses, and baggy tight pants (you’ve seen those terrible things right?) and toting the oversized purse, you just want to slap them. Or maybe that’s just me. Anyways, the fashion here is getting more and more “interesting.”
Hey, the hair is fine. I just would like to see hair become less a priority here in Korea. It seems to be up there ahead of, I don’t know…breathing. Mirror salesmen seem to do well here.
#23,
http://sports.donga.com/MEDIA/.....707-29.jpg
Not even the mushroom cut can hide that nose job. LOL.
#25…Sorry
It could be that this trend actually comes right from Japan, where people like to dress up as their favorite cartoon and video game characters.
The mushroom heads in Korea are just big fans of the power-up mushrooms in Mario Brothers.
Tripod: Yikes! Now that’s what I call a nose-job. Of course in the West it would be a “before nose job” pic.
It’s the stupidest, lamest, most ridiculous haircut ever. The lemming following of it here makes it all the worse.
Umm…so…er… Does this mean Japan will give up on Dokdo?
@31, 32 Thanks for the pic… and to think that face (and accompanying bitch attitude) is the fashion leader here.
I’m starting to miss the USA, where celebrities get plastic surgery to make themselves look MORE attractive.
#31: Wow, that chica looks like a JAP, and I don’t mean Japanese.
i’m glad there are people here who don’t find suh in young attractive. can’t stand her.
as for the topic at hand, is it called mushroom head? i heard koreans refer to it as lego head.
@39
How about we refer to it as “shit head?”
(Ditto on Suh In Young)
@36
LOL!
I like Seo In-Young. She’s different. At least she was before people ran out and copied the ‘do.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/curoninja/2794380317/
I have friends that fly to Japan from Korea to get a haircut. Maybe to avoid this?
I personally find the Korean girls who have that hairstyle to be FAR more attractive than the Japanese girls who color their hair brown and put so much make up on their face.
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