So, the revanchist Globally Dynamic and Xenophobic Cosmopolis had a little border skirmish with their annoying revanchist neighbor, the Insanely Autarkic Hermit Kingdom, involving artillery and machine guns. Oh… some 50 km northwest of Ilsan. Two very different brothers, squabbling in the back seat of the car, over where the dividing line lies.
Is it scarier than living in Los Angeles? Not really.
When you see it once, it's just someone being eccentric – or else they're having some kind of bad day, maybe. When you see it twice, on the same block, it's two schoolgirls trying to make a statement. When you see it a third time, down at Suwon Station, maybe it's a peculiar local trend. But when you see it a fourth and fifth time, on the subway around Seoul, you realize it's an all-out fashion movement.
What's this, I'm seeing? Women wearing heavy-framed plastic eyeglasses, generally high-end designer frames like Ray-Ban or DKNY, without lenses. Personally, I think it looks cool, but it does strike me as a bit out there, as a fashion statement. Most of the few comments out in the interwebs that I could find are overwhelmingly negative, attributing the behavior to "emo posers" and the like. But… whatever.
