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「FROM AN EARLY AGE, THEY LIVE A MECHANICAL LIFE, GOING THROUGH A SPARTAN TRAINING REGIMEN,」 SAID LEE HARK-JOON, A SOUTH KOREAN JOURNALIST WHO HAS PRODUCED A TV DOCUMENTARY ON THE MAKING OF A K-POP GIRL GROUP AND CO-WROTE THE BOOK 「K-POP IDOLS: POPULAR CULTURE AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE KOREAN MUSIC INDUSTRY.」 「THEY SELDOM HAVE A CHANCE TO DEVELOP A NORMAL SCHOOL LIFE OR NORMAL SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AS THEIR PEERS DO.」
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA – SOUTH KOREA』S LAST-MINUTE DECISION TO EXTEND A U.S.-BACKED MILITARY INTELLIGENCE SHARING PACT WITH JAPAN WAS GOOD NEWS FOR WASHINGTON AFTER A WEEK OF SETBACKS ON THE DIVIDED PENINSULA.
SECRETLY FILMED VIDEOS OR PICTURES OF INTIMATE MOMENTS OR BODY PARTS AND THEIR CIRCULATION ONLINE HAVE BEEN A WIDESPREAD CRIME IN SOUTH KOREA. PERPETRATORS, IF CONVICTED, CAN FACE UP TO FIVE YEARS IN JAIL OR FINES OF $25,500. TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN PROTESTED IN THE STREETS OF SEOUL LAST YEAR, DEMANDING HARSHER PUNISHMENT AND RAISING WIDER PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE. IN MARCH, FOUR KOREAN ENTERTAINERS RETIRED AFTER THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN CASES OF EXPLOITATION OF WOMEN BECAME KNOWN.
U.S., NORTH KOREA, MILITARY, TRADE, SOUTH KOREA, WARTIME LABOR, SOUTH KOREA-JAPAN RELATIONS, GSOMIA
"I STRESSED THAT A WITHDRAWAL OF US TROOPS FROM SOUTH KOREA SHOULD NOT BE BROUGHT UP, AS THE SOUTH KOREA-US ALLIANCE ALSO HELPS THE US NATIONAL INTEREST," SAID NA KYUNG-WON OF THE MAIN OPPOSITION LIBERTY KOREA PARTY.
THE JOINT STATEMENT WAS SIGNED IN SOUTH KOREA』S BUSAN BETWEEN CAMBODIAN MINISTER OF COMMERCE PAN SORASAK AND SOUTH KOREAN MINISTER FOR TRADE YOO MYUNG-HEE ON THE SIDELINES OF THE ASEAN-SOUTH KOREA COMMEMORATIVE SUMMIT, THE RELEASE SAID.
THE COMMENTS FOLLOWED THE PENTAGON SAYING THURSDAY THERE WAS 「ABSOLUTELY NO TRUTH」 TO A REPORT IN CHOSUN ILBO, SOUTH KOREA』S BIGGEST NEWSPAPER, THAT THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT WAS 「CURRENTLY CONSIDERING REMOVING ANY TROOPS FROM THE KOREAN PENINSULA.」 THE U.S. MAINTAINING A 28,500-STRONG CONTINGENT ON THE PENINSULA TO DETER NORTH KOREAN AGGRESSION.
INYOUNG YOU, SOUTH KOREAN WOMAN CHARGED IN US COLLEGE BOYFRIEND』S SUICIDE, SENT HIM 47,000 TEXT MESSAGES IN TWO MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH
BY LAW, ABLE-BODIED SOUTH KOREAN MEN MUST REGISTER TO SPEND ABOUT TWO YEARS IN THE ARMED FORCES, AS PART OF A CONSCRIPTION SYSTEM SEEN AS CRUCIAL TO THE COUNTRY』S DEFENCE AGAINST NORTH KOREA. WOMEN ARE EXEMPT, BUT CAN ENLIST.
「I THINK THE PROCESS SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST BEEN LONGER, BUT I THINK IT WAS THE RIGHT DECISION FOR THE GOVERNMENT,」 SAID C. HARRISON KIM, A PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HAWAIʻI AT MāNOA, AND AUTHOR OF 「HEROES AND TOILERS: WORK AS LIFE IN POSTWAR NORTH KOREA, 1953-1961.」 「AS SOUTH KOREA AND NORTH KOREA TRY TO BECOME MORE NORMALIZED NEIGHBORS, I THINK IT』S IMPORTANT THAT SOUTH KOREA RECOGNIZES NORTH KOREA AS A LEGITIMATE ENTITY, IN WHICH CASE EXTRADITION NEEDS TO BE RESPECTED.」
SIMMERING TENSIONS BETWEEN THE TWO NEIGHBORS EXPLODED AFTER SOUTH KOREA』S SUPREME COURT RULED LATE LAST YEAR THAT JAPANESE COMPANIES SHOULD PAY REPARATIONS TO SOUTH KOREANS FOR FORCED LABOR DURING THE COLONIAL ERA. JAPAN INSISTS THAT ALL WARTIME CLAIMS WERE SETTLED WHEN IT AND SOUTH KOREA ESTABLISHED DIPLOMATIC TIES IN 1965.
CAMPAIGNERS IN SOUTH KOREA HAVE CONDEMNED AN ATTEMPT BY CONSERVATIVE MPS TO REMOVE HOMOPHOBIA AND TRANSPHOBIA FROM A LIST OF VIOLATIONS OF AN ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW.
BILATERAL TIES RAPIDLY DETERIORATED AFTER SOUTH KOREA’S SUPREME COURT ORDERED A JAPANESE FIRM IN OCTOBER LAST YEAR TO PAY COMPENSATION FOR SOUTH KOREANS PRESSED INTO FORCED LABOR DURING JAPAN’S COLONIAL RULE OF THE KOREAN PENINSULA, BETWEEN 1910 AND 1945. A SIMILAR RULING WAS REACHED AGAINST ANOTHER JAPANESE COMPANY THE FOLLOWING MONTH. TOKYO MAINTAINS THAT WARTIME ISSUES WERE SETTLED BY A 1965 BILATERAL AGREEMENT.
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