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We Went To North Korea To Get A Haircut

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4.2M views · 9 years ago · documentary · dated

Two Australian YouTubers travel to North Korea and get a haircut while examining how Western media sensationalizes stories about the country.

Cited as a satirical counterpoint to Western news claims about North Korea, including debunking the compulsory haircut myth.

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5 comments from Hacker News

@9999px2026 · in “How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner”

DPRK is obviously maligned by U.S. propaganda, but I know several people who've gone and loved it. Famously, the "Boy Boy" YouTube channel guys went and got a haircut. ▶ this video

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@ranguna2023 · in “China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation”

Here's a thought, maybe all those news are "fake news"? The original article talks about China misinformation in Taiwan. Maybe western society is running the same thing to China. Like like they did for North Korea. Remember the "people can only get certain types of haircuts in North Korea"? Fake news, and I believed it at the time. So now I'm always sceptical on what I read from western news talking about Asian countries. Here's an interesting satire about this ▶ this video

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@pphysch2023 · in “The Toxic Reality of a Post-Familial Society”

Did you hear about the Australian kids that were brutally executed on camera for getting the wrong haircut [1]? HN is not the place for uncurious regurgitations of dehumanizing propaganda. [1] ▶ this video

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@jonas-w2023 · in “Ask HN: What are some of the most interesting YouTube channels to follow?”

Stuff made here I mada a 100MPH flying hoop - link Boy Boy "We went to North Korea to get a haircut" ▶ this video "Ukraine: The avoidable war" link Also one of the people behind boy boy: I did a thing - link

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@morticiansflame2022 · in “Tips to grow your North Korean Startup”

Regarding the haircut thing: that's actually a myth: ▶ this video Unfortunately it's myths like this that are shown as evidence of the /entire/ narrative around NK being false, by those who treat NK as a socialist paradise. There is a lot of poor journalism on the topic (see: myth that NK claimed to fire a rocket into the sun, myth that NK claimed to have found a unicorn, claims that KJU doesn't poop, etc) and as such it's easy to simply say that it's all made up. Certainly not justifying those arguments at all; this just shows how easy it is for the less-critical on any side of an issue to believe whatever they want because of a few counterexamples.

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