一名韩国士兵在众人面前强行剪掉一名年轻人的头发

>the local Mat Rocks Sorry, what does this mean?

Singspore is a dictatorship where human rights are negligible. You’d think a band as “self aware” as Led Zeppelin might have taken this into consideration before agreeing to play there. But apparently that was all fine and good until the regime forced people to cut their hair. That was a bridge too far for the band.

And that's the way to make a young me want to have long hair.

Hair thing were there in my middle school and high school too. They (‘discipline administives’) definitely used a ruler on us. Boys cannot exceed 3 cm. Girls can extend < 3 cm from the top of the collar. High school did not go up to this stupid level on hair. Just “don’t dye your hair”. But other rules were like: cannot wear shoes with other than white or black colors. Cannot wear socks with a mark larger then a coin size. (Teachers hold a coin in front of the door and check the size. We usually tell them it was our legs too thick so the mark became bigger). Looking back, these rules were so stupid. It’s just a form of control and manipulation, easily for admin to ‘rule’ us. (Source: 2000-2005 in Taiwan)

That sounds horrible! Where do you live?

We had the same thing growing up in Texas in the 90s. Although they would suspend you and not allow you back until you had a haircut instead of cut your hair right then and there.

I'm trying to wrap my head around "the discipline teacher", what the heck.

In my highschool we had "skirt checks" where a teacher would come in the classroom and measure girls skirts to make sure it wasn't too far above the knee. She would do this in front of everyone and if you refused you were sent home for the day and given a suspension. Gotta love the Bible Belt.

To expand on this, South Korea was a U.S.-backed dictatorship almost continuously until the late 80s/early 90s: > [The First Republic of Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Republic_of_Korea) had existed since 1948 under President Syngman Rhee, who was widely considered to be **corrupt and a dictator who abused his presidential powers to maintain his rule and cronyism**... > The Second Republic [1960-61] was founded during the April Revolution mass protests against President Syngman Rhee, succeeding the First Republic and establishing a parliamentary government... The Second Republic was replaced by a provisional **military government** under the Supreme Council for National Reconstruction... > [The Supreme Council for National Reconstruction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Council_for_National_Reconstruction) was the **ruling military junta** of South Korea from May 1961 to December 1963... > [The Third Republic of South Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Republic_of_Korea) was the government of South Korea from December 1963 to November 1972... The Third Republic was presented as a return to civilian government under the National Assembly, **but in practice was a dictatorship** under Park, Supreme Council members, and the Democratic Republican Party... > [The Fourth Republic of Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Republic_of_Korea) was the government of South Korea from November 1972 to March 1981... The Fourth Republic was founded on the approval of the Yushin Constitution in the 1972 constitutional referendum, **codifying the de facto dictatorial powers** held by President Park Chung-hee, and succeeding the Third Republic. **Park and his Democratic Republican Party ruled under the centralized and authoritarian Yushin System** until the assassination of Park on 26 October 1979. The Fourth Republic entered a period of political instability under Park's successor, Choi Kyu-hah, and the **escalating martial law declared after Park's death**... >[The Fifth Republic of South Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Republic_of_Korea) was the government of South Korea from March 1981 to December 1987. The Fifth Republic was established in March 1981 by Chun Doo-hwan, **a military colleague of long-time president and dictator Park Chung-hee**, after the political instability and military rule in the Fourth Republic since the assassination of Park in October 1979. **The Fifth Republic was ruled by Chun and the Democratic Justice Party as a de facto dictatorship**... > [The Sixth Republic was established in 1987 and remains the current polity of South Korea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_South_Korea#Sixth_Republic_1987%E2%80%93present)... Roh Tae-woo became president for the 13th presidential term in the first direct presidential election in 16 years... Roh was from a military background... > Kim Young-sam was elected president in the 1992 elections after Roh's tenure. **He was the country's first civilian president in 30 years** since 1962... In February 1998, Kim Dae-jung was officially inaugurated. South Korea had maintained its commitment to democratize its political processes and **this was the first transfer of the government between parties by peaceful means.**

For anyone unaware - Park Chung-hee was made dictator with the creation of the Third Republic of South Korea and had the constitution rewritten, creating the Fourth Republic. He was also the father of the last President of Korea, Park Geun-hye, who was impeached for corruption but also made headlines for her involvement with a cult. South Korea is currently on its sixth republic.

I really wonder about this mind set. Imagine thinking that long hair was a genuine problem that required physical government intervention. Could these folks be arbitrarily convinced to enforce *anything* no matter how absurd? I know the answer, because this ultimately ends in horrific atrocities committed against the "others," but it's just wild to me that our brains can be so easily hijacked by blatant nonsense.

Im working on some WW3 OC

there's a lot of events that are much closer than you'd imagine- taiwan's white terror ended in friggin '87, for instance.

I really enjoyed the story.

Beards in China are still not a thing in 2021。Source: live here

They also loved to rape suspected female communists as well

Pearl clutching and an effort to relate drugs and the new left movement with the counter culture to crack down on them.

Rhee might have been worse, his policies killed thousands of people for the "crime" of being suspected communists. As many as 200,000 people might have been killed in the Bodo league Massacre.

I think people mostly know the post June Democarcy Movement Korea. The one before it isn't really advertised. Tbh I didn't really know their history post korean war until a few years ago. And I was surprised they had to deal with military dictators cos of communism...

I mean it is now.* But you're right about it historically. I think because of the dire state of North Korea now and South Korea's continued explosive development since the 1980s, people assume it was always like that. But the South Koreans have literally fought tooth and nail for what they have now and for a good couple of decades after the war, life was a actually *better* in the North. For the first thirty years of it's existence, South Korea was an opressive right wing military dictatorship propped up by the USA. It's only been since the late 80s/early 90s that it's developed into the South Korea we all no. And the South is still incredibly conservative in many ways. To the extent that it makes Japan look like Vancouver in comparison. *Even though it still suffers from the same issues of corruption and politicking that all liberal democracies do.

you'd be surprised of how fragile some men are. "toxic masculinity" as they call it. and i'm talking about the unnecessary aggressiveness and violence

same in Vietnam. and you know what the excuse is? "but it makes you look like a girl!" like since when has hair length ever been exclusive to girls? hell, most our ancestors had a god gamn hair braid or hair bun for god's sake and they looked badass as hell and they were fucking warriors i don't understand the old people in my at all. do they even know their own history?

People enjoy being oppressors.