Good thing Hines Ward is bald and all grown up.

Because if the Pride of Korea were a student in Korea and had him some curly hair, he might have to cut it off. From the Hankyoreh, via Korea Beat, comes a story that students with naturally brown or curly hair will be issued ID cards to prove that their styles are natural . . . or else be forced to cut or dye their hair to conform to dress codes. Read the whole article here. Two excerpts:

Recently schools have been requiring students with naturally colored or curly hair to obtain proof. Students with naturally-colored hair must get confirmation form their parents and teacher and keep the proof with them when they go to school. A large number of schools in Seoul, including Ilshin girls’ High School, Gyeonggi Girls’ High School, Daewon Girls’ High School, Dongmyeong Girls’ High School, and Seomun Girls’ High School, issue the ID cards.

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The “natural hair ID cards” are a “solution” to the issue. But there are many schols which don’t have the cards yet have no problems, so there appear to be no significant results from them, because the educational authorities’ call for “curly or colored hair” as the enforcement standard exposes a cramped view of standardization. Already in our society 1 in 8 marriages are international. Perhaps in the future students will also need “natural skin color ID cards” and “natural eye color ID cards”.

Here's a picture of a "natural hair ID card," from Hankyoreh via Daum: