Up-do's

So, the hair here is amazing.
Maybe it is because the country in general is made up of people who are shorter. Other than that, I would be very hard-pressed to find a reason for the gravity defying hairdos.
Some of them will have hair flipped and supported by hidden girders almost 5 or 6 inches above their scalp. I do exaggerate a lot, but I have to stress that this is not an exaggeration. Jessie will vouche for me.
I imagine that this may have to do with the sheer number of beauty shops that are around here. There are more beauty shops here than anything else, I think. Except maybe restaurants.
Every street has at least one beauty shop, with a pink, yellow and orange spinny sign, instead of the classic red, white and blue signs for barbershops, which are also everywhere here. One block alone here probably has four or five.
If you do come to Korea, let me pass on some advice. The double barber-signs don't mean faster service, they mean that the place is a brothel.
Also, the barbershops here are much more expensive than the beauty shops. Which are both dirt cheap. The barber shops are about the same as in Canada ($8-15), but beauty shops are only around $6 for a nice manly cut. And a nice pampering shampoo and scalp massage.
With it being so cheap, it feels like many businesses here cannot help but fail. Not only in beauty and barber shops, but in stores, the market is flooded, and according to Robert, the turn-over on stores and shops is incredibly high. Of course, considering that on a two block stretch of road there are five stores selling the same cell phones for the same carriers, it is hardly surprising. Not to mention the three stationary stores that are exactly the same, or the four clock and watch stores, the six or seven appliance shops with the exact same inventory... Or the two identical LG/Samsung appliance stores.
Seriously... they need someone with a marketing degree to take by them the hand and explain why every six months there is a new store on the corner.