Hugo Boss

I'm really tired so I don't have time for a full post, but while in Shinsa I saw a very old piece of Hugo Boss clothing that you can't get in America.

The caption made the context SIGNIFICANTLY darker

Yes, that is an SS Officers' cover complete with Totenkopf and SS eagle insignia. Incidentally, this is not the first time I've seen the SS eagle here in Seoul. The people who work in the food court at HomePlus, a kind of Korean Wal-Mart, have the SS eagle, complete with swastika, on their right breast pocket. And no, it's not the Buddhist swastika either, the eagle is kind of a dead giveaway. 

In contrast, Koreans are MUCH more sensitive when it comes to emblems of the Japanese "Rising Sun" flag, the one that flew over Korea during three decades of brutal colonial rule. The Japanese had a substantially larger impact on than the Nazis did on Korea. Likewise, the Nazi conquest and the Holocaust had a much larger impact on Americans because of our large European immigrant community (both before and after the war) as well as our Jewish population. Minority opinions tend to get drowned out by the masses. Don't get me wrong, I think that people go a little bit far in terms of political correctness these days, but I still think it's a little soon for SS covers to be fashionable. Or I could be wrong and the postmodern era has already begun. Considering how a man on stilts in an Iron Man mask high fived me outside of a makeup store while a 35 year old woman in a mini skirt and leg warmers cheered at me in Korean, I'd say that anything is possible.