South Koreans will soon have to toss aside their mini skirts due to the revised “overexposure law” that was effective on March 22nd. South Korean president, Park Geun-hye approved a new law that states whoever was deemed to overexpose themselves in public will face a fine of 50,000 KRW (RM139.10).
South Korean opposition leaders and celebrities were the first to criticize the law. South Korea’s famous sex symbol, Lee Hyori, tweeted: “Is the overexposure fine for free? I’m so dead”. A member of the Democratic United Party, Ki Sik Kim also Tweeted: “Why does the state interfere with how citizens dress?
과다노출 벌금 정말이예요??흐미 난 죽었다 — hyori lee (@frog799) March 11, 2013
Opposition leaders criticized the law as curtailing the freedom of expression. When Geun-hye’s father, former President of South Korea Park Chung-hee, led the country, lengthy skirts were prohibited in the 1970s, with those that ended 20 centimeters or more above the knee banned.
Fans of short skirts are not pleased with the new law, and have resulted to posting picture of themselves in revealing clothing on Twitter to express their general displeasure.
The local police however, said the exposure fine doesn’t have anything to do with skirt length or revealing outfits. Inspector Ko Jun-ho of the National Police Agency states that the amendment relates to cases like public nudity and public indecency. “Any reports that we will be regulating what people are wearing a completely false”.
Well, great news for female K-pop stars, then. They can still don their miniskirts, just as long it doesn’t expose any ‘unmentionables’.
Source: Daily Mail, CNN
