Ambassador Harry Harris's mother was Japanese and commentators said the moustache alluded to the fashions of erstwhile Japanese officials
Ambassador Harry Harris’s mother was Japanese and commentators said the moustache alluded to the fashions of erstwhile Japanese officialsThis combination of images shows a file photo,left, taken on January 16 2020 of US ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris and a handout of a screen grab, right, from video received by the US embassy in Seoul on July 27 2020 after shaving off his moustache.
The envoy's mother was Japanese and, with Koreans still bitterly resentful of Tokyo's 1910-1945 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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