The show was quite popular in South Korea. The brainy, brawny fictional dude who was always blowing things up, sported a similar style in the television show between the 1980s to 1992. It also became synonymous with the tough-guy image Case in point - MacGyver folks. Soccer star Kim Byungji popularized sported the OG Wolf Cut way back in the 1990s.Ī post shared by TXT BEOMGYU before Miley Cyrus, Debby Ryan and Korean Idol TVXQ's Jaejoong bought varied imitations of this style into the foray, “Kim Byungji haircut" became a major trend for South Korean men. If not that specific style, at least polarizing variations of the wolf cut, that range from Short Shags, Soft Mullets, Husg Cuts have been in the K-Pop repertoire for decades. While this trend might have gained notoriety in 2021, it is interesting to note that this shaggy popular cut has long graced the salons of South Korea. The fervour is so high that now people are taking scissors to their own hands and hair, with results that often skews the scale more in favour of a mullet with a smidgen of shag. If you are not a hermit or Fran Lebowitz, you might have seen the Wolf Cut tag that adorns the TikTok feeds of millions of Gen Z folks who have made this trend quite popular with over 230 million views. Then in June, the K-pop Singer Beomgyu debuted his new look and Nothing sets the social media's hearts aflutter than a beloved k-pos idol with long hair. The singer sported summers latest trend dubbed the Wolf Cut - a hybrid of a layered shag and a mullet. Back in March, Billie Ellsih broke Instagram records when a photo of her newly cut blonde hair achieved a million likes in six minutes. Bille Eilish first broke it, then K-Pop Idol Beomgyu, a member of TXT (Tomorrow X Together) bought it and the rest is a hairy history that eventually put the Wolf Cut on the Gen Z map.