US ambassador to South Korea shaves off controversial moustache

Harry Harris

The US ambassador to South Korea has shaved off his mildly controversial moustache, saying it was too uncomfortable to keep while wearing a coronavirus mask during South Korea’s notoriously hot summer.

Harry Harris’s facial hair had drawn criticism from the media and a small number of online commentators, who compared his moustache to those worn by colonial Japanese governors during the country’s brutal rule of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945.