http://www.heraldsun.com.au/lifestyl...-1226233442747
HE'S been cursed in the street, appeared in a movie and perfected the wave of North Korea's "Dear Leader''. Now Kim Jong-il's leading look-alike feels part of himself has died along with the late ruler.
Passers-by stop and stare as a short, stout man with a bouffant hairdo, large glasses and olive green suit stands at the door of his small engraving shop in northern Seoul.
For more than a decade Kim Young-Shik has been moonlighting as an impersonator of North Korea's longtime leader.
But since Kim Jong-il died on December 17, the 61-year-old father of two fears he may have to hang up his tailor-made suits after an illustrious career that saw him appear on Japanese TV and in a Middle East chocolate commercial.
"I feel very empty, as if a part of me died. 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."
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