Shaving head to save pure Hangul

Shaving head to save pure Hangul

A South Korean Hangul activist gets his head shaved in front of South Korea's Ministry of Culture and Tourism on Feb. 19 as a gesture of protest against the government policy to reintroduce Chinese characters in the written Korean language. ==Kyodo

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