LTEA 142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Park Chung-Hee, Fourth Republic Of South Korea, Fashion Police
Lecture 18, 05.14.2018
Dating in the Park Chung Hee Era
● Penis inspection in military
● Their hair was too long so they got in trouble with the police
● Governing bodies:
● Increasingly repressive atmosphere after the Yusin constitution (1972) and the promulgation of
seeral eerge derees 1974-1975)
● Suppression of counter-culture and youth culture (no hippies)
○ Fashion police
■ Rules on skirt length for females (no more than 20 cm of exposed skin)
■ And hair length for males (hair can not touch the collar or ears)
○ Curfew
○ Cesorship of deadet popular etertaiet oth doesti Ki Choo-ja) and
foreign (Bob Dylan)
○ Crackdown on marijuana (Lee Jeong-hwa)
● Characteristics: defying the standards set up by the government
● Popularization of Western style romance and love after the Korean War through novels and
movies
● Hollood oies like Spledor i the Grass iport represetatios of teeage roae ad
sexuality
● Appearance of Meeting and Sogaeting and dating in student culture
○ meeting/sogating likely imported from Japan
○ Generational gap
○ Not necessarily a replacement for arranged marriage
○ Meetig as ore oral tha sogaetig ad preferred a of approahig opposite se
● 3 months to a year between first date and first kiss
● New dating practices are more liberal forms of romance, but nonetheless have their own rules
and norms
○ Heterosexuality
○ Social endogamy and gender hierarchy
○ Relationship = labor (grooming, dressing up, makeup)
● LGBT dating repressed, only made visible as sensational spectacle
○ Clubs in Itaewon
○ Seret eetig spots theatres, afes routiel etioed i taloid press
● 1973 survey of university students
○ First concern for 75% of students: sex and relationships with the other gender
○ First reaso to isit uiersit ousellig roo for feale studets: parets oppositio
to arriage eause of ofrieds fail akgroud or age
● Transactional aspect of the interaction
● Dating as capitalistic courtship
● Already in 1970
○ The arriage ak opa oputer assisted-dating for couples
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