So i started watching a new SK drama called Binggoo a second ago and in the first 10 minutes I already had a question. I'm not native to South Korea and therefore are not aware of the history, so to quench my curiosity can some one answer me this: Why were the young men in 1979 with long hair being mobbed by police men and forcefully getting hair cut?
Edit: Am I right to assume its an indecency thing, kinda like the short skirts and stuff? Maybe I'm just being ignorant or oblivious, but what changed from the respectability of long hair and top knots you see in historical to long hair being shunned in the 1970s? Or is it a military thing? Cause soldiers shave their head and after the war long hair wasn't as... manly... Not the word I want but you get me?
Link to drama:
http://mydramalist.com/22083-binggoo
