The most controversial moustache in South Korea has fallen victim to the razor's blade, with US ambassador Harry Harris visiting a traditional barbershop
Seoul and Washington are security allies and the US stations 28,500 troops in the country. But their relationship has been strained in recent years by differences in their approaches to North Korea and over cost-sharing responsibilities.
The envoy's mother was Japanese and, with Koreans still bitterly resentful of Tokyo's 1910-45 colonisation of the peninsula, commentators claimed the moustache alluded to the fashions of imperial governors-general from the period. But over the weekend he uploaded a video to social media of him getting the moustache shaved off at a traditional Korean barbershop, saying he did so to keep cool in the Seoul summer, while wearing a mask to fight the coronavirus pandemic."For me it was either keep the 'stache or lose the mask. Summer in Seoul is way too hot & humid for both.
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