In South Korea, hair loss emerges as new election issue

SEOUL – South Korean statesmanlike campaigner Lee Jae-myung isn’t bald. But helium is enjoying the enactment of galore bald voters implicit his propulsion for authorities payments for hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment treatments.

Since his connection was disclosed earlier this week, hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment has emerged arsenic a hot-button taxable up of March’s statesmanlike ballot successful South Korea, wherever erstwhile elections person focused connected North Korea’s atomic program, relations with the U.S., scandals and economical problems.

Online communities for bald radical are flooded with messages supporting his proposal. There is besides beardown disapproval that it’s conscionable a populism-driven run pledge by Lee, the governing enactment candidate, to triumph votes.

Messages connected societal media include, "Jae-myung bro. I emotion you. I’ll implant you successful the Blue House” and “Your Excellency, Mr. President! You’re giving caller anticipation to bald radical for the archetypal clip successful Korea.”

Lee told reporters Wednesday that helium thinks hairsbreadth regrowth treatments should beryllium covered by the nationalist wellness security program.

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“Please, fto america cognize what has been inconvenient for you implicit hair-loss treatments and what indispensable beryllium reflected successful policies,” Lee wrote connected Facebook. “I’ll contiguous a cleanable argumentation connected hair-loss treatment.”

Lee, an outspoken liberal, is starring nationalist sentiment surveys. Some critics person called him a unsafe populist.

“(Lee’s idea) whitethorn look to beryllium a indispensable measurement for galore radical worrying astir their hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment but it’s thing but superior populism, fixed that it would worsen the fiscal stableness of the authorities security program,” the blimpish Munhwa Ilbo paper said successful an editorial Thursday.

Currently, hairsbreadth nonaccomplishment related to aging and hereditary factors is not covered by the government-run security program. Hair nonaccomplishment treatments are lone supported if the nonaccomplishment is caused by definite diseases.

Reports accidental 1 successful each 5 South Koreans suffers from hairsbreadth loss.

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