#Beautiful korean lol movie
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Up until the assassination, the existence of a 'LOL' emblazoned shirt in 2017 was totally passР“В© but the internet's opportunistic cashing in on the murder has shown that there's seemingly nothing that can not be monetised and reappropriated today. The designer argued that 'human rights abuses' by North Korea's leaders outweighed any arguments against not only selling the T-shirts but marketing them in connection with the assassination, but I think we can all agree that good taste might be a reason to curb thisР’В kind of opportunistic retail. Tabloid newspapers expressed outrage with headlines like ' Opportunistic sickos cash in on assassination of Kim Jong-un's half-brother by using pic of 'female assassin' in CCTV to flog their 'LOL' tops', while Business Insider reported one US designer was planning to push 'LOL' T-shirts to trolls, anti-fascists and feminists in the wake of the assassination. Overnight the new millennial nihilist chic of the LOL assassin spread through the net, with replica shirts cropping up online for as much as Р’Р€700 on one Taobao listing (which really is no surprising since the site trades in turning around knock-offs of popular celebrity fashion in a heartbeat). Up until the assassination, the existence of a 'LOL' emblazoned shirt in 2017 was totally passР“В© but the internet's opportunistic cashing in on the murder has shown that there's seemingly nothing that can not be monetised and reappropriated today. The woman in the picture is thought to be Doan Thi Huong, a 28-year-old from a rice farm in northern Vietnam, she's an entertainment worker and former contestant on Vietnam's Pop Idol equivalent.

The incident spawned an avalanche of tabloid headlines but it's the grainy CCTV image of the LOL assassin that's gone viral. It's basically unfolding like an odd-ball episode of the X-Files (more on that kind of thinking in Nora Khan and Steven Warwick aka Heatsick's fear indexing X-Files deconstruction)Р’В that's captivated the public imagination with its echoes of Cold War-era conspiracy.

#Beautiful korean lol tv

Since the assassination major plot twists in the story include an attempt to steal Kim Jong-nam's body from the morgue, one suspect claiming she was duped into the assassination thinking she was part of a reality TV Just For Laughs style prank involving spraying men in the face with water and North Korea's State news agency insisting Kim Jong-nam is possibly not the assassinated man and instead died of a heart attack (in our current fake news climate who can blame them?) On the 14th February Kim Jong-nam was likely poisoned with the VX nerve agent (also known as ethyl N-2-Diisopropylaminoethyl Methylphosphonothiolate and classified by the UN as a weapon of mass destruction) during a split second assassination attack at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

#Beautiful korean lol movie

What happened next makes the plot of James Franco movie The Interview seem legit. As a result Kim Jong-nam was exiled, taking refuge in various countries across Asia, where he quickly became disillusioned with the North Korean regime and started publicly hating on his brother. That was until Kim Jong-nam was arrested for using a forged Dominican Republic passport to visit Tokyo Disneyland (we've all done it). To recap on how this all started, North Korean despot heir Kim Jong-un had an older half brother named Kim Jong-nam, who was at some point considered the heir to their father Kim Jong-il. Cutting through one of the most bizarre news stories since anything Donald Trump related happened, the LOL assassin appeared like a ready made, walking meme, an instant icon (if you disregard all the totally morally reprehensible murdery death stuff) straight from the plot of a potentially great YA novel in which a former Pop Idol contestant stays in cheap hotels, carries large amounts of cash and assassinates the exiled brother of North Korea's leader whilst ironically wearing a shirt with 'LOL' written across it. One of those moments and a sure fire early entry for 2k17's image of the year, is the lo-fi security footage still of the beautiful millennial North Korea assassin and her 'LOL' emblazoned shirt. There are moments in life when reality becomes so morbidly absurd that, despite how completely messed up the situation is, all we can do is laugh out loud.