偶看新闻小米滑板车好用吗:Death of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il leaves impersonator sick about his future
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Death of North Korea’s Kim Jong-il leaves impersonator sick about his future
Young-sik never got a chance to meet his mirror image, despite repeated rejected efforts to get a North Korean visa
Friday, December 30 2011, 11:54 AM
Prakash Singh/AFP/Getty ImagesSouth Korean Kim Young-Shik, a lookalike of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Il, has been cursed in the street, appeared in a movie and perfected the wave of North Korea's "Dear Leader." A Kim Jong-il impersonator says his love for the loony late dictator is real — and he actually misses his look-alike.
“I feel very empty, as if a part of me died,” Kim Young-sik told the Sydney Morning Herald. “People try to comfort me, saying some figures are more famous when they’re dead.
“But I don’t think it will be the case with Kim.”
Since the 5-foot-2 Jong-il went six feet under, the Seoul resident has placed his four olive green suits and his five pairs of platform shoes under lockdown in his closet.
“It’s a shame I won’t be able to wear them anymore,” Young-sik told the Australian newspaper.
The engraving shop owner started impersonating the North Korean dictator way back in the ‘90s, a second career launched by happenstance.
“One day after I got out of the shower and my hair was very curly, people told me I looked like Kim Jong-il,” recalled the 61-year-old businessman.
Where some might take offense, Young-sik siezed the opportunity presented by his resemblance to the gnomish “Dear Leader.”
Young-sik was soon perming his hair like Jong-il, spritzing it with spray, following the North Korean’s weight fluctuations.
He never shot a round of golf in 38 strokes, but he did eventually rub elbows with fellow world leader lookalikes — a George W. Bush impersonator, a Vladimir Putin stand-in.
He and Jong-il even got their big breaks around the same time: One year after Jong-il replaced his father as North Korea’s leader in 1994, Young-sik landed a role in the film “The Rose of Sharon Blooms Again.”
The movie told the tale of a South Korean scientist who secretly aids the North in developing nuclear weapons to stop a Japanese attack.
But Young-sik never got a chance to meet his mirror image, despite repeated rejected efforts to get a North Korean visa. His dreams of a face-to-face hello died along with Jong-il on Dec. 17.
The father of two says he hopes to someone resurrect his career as a Jong-il impersonator, but doubts his son can follow in his footsteps with North Korea’s new leader, heir Kim Jon-un.
“They’ll find someone new for Jon-un,” he told the Sydney paper. “They asked if my son looks like him, but he doesn’t.”
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