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Controversy erupts over dress code at women's university
숙대 축제의상 '가슴골 망사 시스루 금지’
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Sookmyung Women's University students are up in arms after the school imposed a dress code during its "festival week."


Sookmyung, one of the county's top women's universities, said: "No showing cleavages, no fishnet clothes, and no see-through clothes." It also banned all "sexual clothing."

The guidelines, uploaded to the school's website, entailed fines for violators.

The notice sparked immediate controversy, with many students saying the school was being heavy-handed and prudish. Others said such festivals had become too risque.

The festivals, a tradition at many Korean universities, involve students selling makgeolli or beer. They use the proceeds for school activities or donate the money to charity.

A festival poster featuring an image of a promiscuously dressed woman in a maid's uniform fanned the uproar.

Festivals at other universities have become the subject of debate as well.

Female students were seen wearing extremely short pants and tight uniforms at Seoul's Konkuk University, trying to attract people to their drinking booths.

"It definitely draws attention; it catches more eyes," a Konkuk student told Yonhap News Agency. "But it reminds me of a butcher's shop, or even a red light district."

"We're just carrying on the concept that our seniors did in the past," a Konkuk art student said."The professors did say something about our clothes, but we needed something special to make us stand out among the other departments."

Female students of the arts school wore a revealing flight-attendant uniform, and high-heels.

"Students have grown up watching K-pop girl groups dressed in a way that is in between music and pornography," said Professor Cho-Han Hye-jung of Yonsei University's cultural anthropology department.

"This has led them to think that wearing such exposing clothes is not problematic at all, and that this is rather something cool, instead of a matter of concern."


숙대 축제의상 '가슴골 망사 시스루 금지’

숙명여대가 오는 24일부터 26일까지 열릴 교내 축제 ‘청파제’에 대한 복장 규제가 논란이 되고 있다.

21일 각종 소셜네트워크에는 ‘숙명여대 축제 금지의상’이라는 제목과 함께 학교 측에서 마련한 복장 규정에 대한 안내문이 입방아에 올랐다.

자세한 내용을 살펴보면 가슴골이 보이는 상의, 망사 및 시스루 옷, 배가 드러나는 크롭탑 등이 금지되고 바지 및 치마의 길이가 제한된다. 이어 학교 측은 “선정적인 분위기를 유도할 수 있는 의상도 금지한다”며 “위반시 벌금이 부과될 수 있다”고 당부했다.

이에 대해 누리꾼들은 ‘지나치게 보수적’이라는 의견과 학교 측 입장을 옹호하는 등 다양한 반응을 보였다.

이 가운데 숙명여대 미술대학의 한 학과는 가터벨트에 메이드 복장을 한 여성을 포스터로 내걸어 대학 주점의 선정성 문제가 다시 한번 화두로 떠오르며  ‘여성의 성 상품화’를 우려하는 목소리가 고조되고 있다.

지난 18일 건국대 주점에서는 ‘오빠, ○○주점 빨개요’가 적힌 홍보 팻말을 들고 다니는 핫팬츠와 타이트한 유니폼 차림의 여학생들이 종종 목격됐다.

근처를 지나던 한 여학생은 '눈길을 끌긴 하지만 흡사 정육점이나 홍등가를 연상케 한다'고 지적했다. 그러나 한 건국대 예술학부 학생은 '이 콘셉트는 예대에서 5∼6년간 매년 해오던 것으로 선배들이 정해준 것을 후배들이 그대로 따르는 것일 뿐'이라며 '교수님들이 복장 등을 지적하기도 했지만 모두 똑같은 주점들 사이에서 튀어 보이고 매상도 오르려면 독특함이 필요했다'고 설명했다.

이에 연세대학교 문화인류학과 조한혜정 명예교수는 '요즘 세대는 음악과 포르노의 경계를 아슬아슬하게 넘나드는 걸 그룹의 춤과 노래를 보고 자라면서 매력적으로만 생각할 뿐 문제의식은 없다'며 '선정적인 캠퍼스 주점도 어떤 식으로든 돈을 벌고 성공하는 게 쿨하고 멋지다는 경쟁·성과주의 세태의 한 단면'이라는 의견을 내놓았다.
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