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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

The Sanctity of the Schoolgirl Uniform in South Korea
The picture of three South Korean entertainers below comes from an article that speaks of the "charm" of the school uniform, 이효리-윤은혜-박한별 '교복매력 짱!':
I'm reminded of the skin flick art house film Gojitmal (199), which corrupted revolutionized Korean cinema with the story of a sadomasochistic relationship between a highschool girl and a married man twice her age. Of the many scenes cut by censors for domestic commercial release, one stood out, not for its nudity, but for its lack thereof; a scene depicting the female protagonist in her school uniform was deemed to controversial as it violated the uniform's "sanctity" (although I'm not sure if the censor board used the equivalent of that term).