A Young Liberal at the Barbershop

When I say barbershop I am not mistaken. I’m talking about one of those old-fashioned barbershops exclusively for men where an old barber sticks to what he knows: the 50’s clean-cut look, and nothing else. I’m talking about the barbershops that are now going extinct in Seoul; you have to find them by luck. They are unusual places, almost like time-traveling to the past. The one I go to is a shabby little hut — everything in it seems to be at least a couple of decades old (except the fresh blade