It's Ba-ack!!

Remember this?  No, I'm not talking about the Brady Bunch or even Mr. Mike Brady.  If you don't know what I'm referring to, it could be that your psyche is trying to block out an exceedingly painful memory.  Your thoughts are trying to dissociate themselves from this absurd notion.  Your brain is forcing your eyes to avert before this image is indelibly burned into your retina.  It is perhaps something that should have died with so many other fads in the 70s that often resurrect themselves to haunt our unsuspecting present.  Oh yes!  It's...it's....

THE MAN PERM~!!!

And it is in full-effect in Korea like you would not believe!!  I kid you not.  Men out there are getting man perms left and right because they are told that it actually looks good and that the girls dig it.  Who, you might ask, is the culprit perpetuating, nay, inciting such ridiculous thoughts in the minds of men all over this country? 

This dude.

His character, Goo Joon Pyo, in the TV Drama "Boys Before Flowers", has been the catalyst for a new generation of curly-headed man candy in Korea.  Now, you can go to your local barbershop (or I suppose in this case, it's the beauty parlor) and say, "Hook me up with a Goo Joon Pyo", and in about an hour and a half to two hours, you can walk out looking something like this guy, roses and all.  He is supposed to be the hot ish, so if you're planning on coming to Korea to meet a lady, this might be the way to go.  I'm not endorsing it.  I'm just letting you know...

I gotta tell you, nobody is immune.  Even my five-year-old nephew Eddie is rocking the 'lil man perm.  And if you can't tell from the pictures, he thinks he looks pretty nice.  (Haha.  Somebody taught him it was cute to put two fingers up to your chin when you take pictures.)

The man perm: for that voluminous, electrifying, come-hither look.