South Korean miniskirt ban

After South Vietnamese dictatorship First Lady Madame Nhu … after the Greek colonels’ dictatorship … after Christian funadamentalist politicians in Poland and elsewhere … now South Korea.

Kallie Szczepanski, About.com Guide in the USA, writes:

Miniskirt Ban under S. Korea’s New Regime?

March 22, 2013

Korea’s actresses and pop stars like Suzy (pictured above) may be in trouble. Effective today, South Korea has a new “overexposure” law, which provides that anyone the police deem to be showing too much skin can be fined 50,000 won (about $45 US).

The police say that this statute is actually an indecent exposure law, aimed at people who go out in public completely nude, rather than a miniskirt ban. Their claim hasn’t calmed the public outcry, though.

Newly elected President Park Geun-hye and her Cabinet approved this measure during their first meeting. The wary public reaction may be reasonable – after all, the current president’s father, Park Chung-hee, did ban skirts that ended 20 centimeters or more above the knee when he ruled the country in the 1970s.

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• How low/high can you go? (myseoultobe.wordpress.com)
• Korean Gender Reader, March 16-22 (thegrandnarrative.com)
• Drills begin amid Korea tensions (bbc.co.uk)