The United States Ambassador to South Korea has had a weight on his shoulders and upper lip for some time. Earlier this year, Harry Harris was accused of insulting his South Korean hosts by sporting a mustache that some say reminded them of the days of Japanese colonial rule. Harris was born in Japan to a Japanese mother, and was criticized in South Korea for following the leadership of the eight Japanese governors-general of the Korean peninsula by brushing off his mustache. “My mustache, for some reason, has become a point of fascination here,” he said earlier this year. But, over the weekend, she posted a video of him shaving. Harris said she made the decision to help him stay cool during the summer since his mustache was creating wet conditions underneath his face mask. “For me, it was keeping the ‘stache or losing the mask,'” he said, according to The Guardian. “Summer in Seoul is too hot and humid for both of them. COVID guidelines are important and I am a masked man!
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