Name: Seoul Fashion Week - K-Pop to Double Eyelid Surgery
Uploaded: 2013-08-17T08:29:47.000Z
Duration: 34 min 32 s
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CHARLET DUBOC: Welcome to "Fashion Week International,"

the show that reports on the most fabulous fashion weeks in

the world and the culture and politics behind them.

This time we're in North Korea's fun Southern cousin

It's 3:00 AM on a Monday night and I'm shopping and so is

Everything you can see around here is open.

It's the same as during the day, it's just dark.

This is an underground station, but as you can see it

also takes you to the underground shopping center.

We're definitely going to come back at a more civil hour.

A sprawling mass of perfect order, and the most

technologically advanced city in the world.

The curious antics of South Korea's Northern neighbor has

But during that time, South Korea has quietly been getting

on with becoming the center of Asian pop culture.

To the point where K-pop is poised to explode over the

face of the world in a blitz of highly choreographed

The look here it is all about flawless perfection, whilst

And I was here to find out just how far people were

willing or expected to go in pursuit of perfection.

Fashion week is being held at the 1988 Olympic Village,

This gave me a chance to try and navigate my way there

So while you're waiting for the train, you can engage with

Everyone would agree that I'm already unique and casual, so

I'm going to choose this sexy office lady here.

It was just like the scene in "Clueless." The end result is

a bit disappointing, I'm going to be honest.

At some of the other places we visited on this show, the

actual fashion seemed to be an afterthought

Here, the fashion was everything and was to be taken

Outside the fashion week, I felt positively underdressed.

In this series, I'd not yet been to a place where the kids

Or indeed, seen so many scrupulously crafted

How would you describe your own personal style?

I spotted luminous pixies, hipster [INAUDIBLE], fay time

You're the first person we've seen in Seoul that has a

Do you dress this way because you listen to punk music, or

do you dress this way because you like punk fashion?

CHARLET DUBOC: Where I come from, if people dress like

you, it means that they follow a punk rock lifestyle.

CHARLET DUBOC: It's been lovely talking to you.

You're the most polite punk I've every met.

The array of well-honed looks may give the impression of

But the punk himself admitted that his look

To find out more, I went to see a guy called Donald King,

aka, "the loneliest rockabilly punk in the world." I found

him at his secret barber shop, hidden in the

Would you say it's difficult to be a punk and maintain a

CHARLET DUBOC: What do you think of the mainstream Korean

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