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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.」
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.
「THE COASTAL GUNNERY EXERCISE THAT THE NORTH MADE MENTION OF VIOLATES THE MILITARY AGREEMENT OF SEPTEMBER 19, WHICH THE SOUTH AND NORTH KOREAN MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE HITHERTO FAITHFULLY IMPLEMENTED AFTER AGREEING ON IT LAST SEPTEMBER,」 CHOI HYUN-SOO, A SPOKESPERSON FOR THE SOUTH KOREAN MND, REMARKED DURING A PRESS BRIEFING.
AMERICAN TROOPS ARE STATIONED IN SOUTH KOREA AND A SMALL NUMBER HELP PATROL THE EDGE OF A DEMILITARIZED ZONE BETWEEN THE TWO KOREAS. THE KOREAN WAR, IN WHICH THE UNITED STATES FOUGHT WITH SOUTH KOREA AGAINST NORTH KOREA AND CHINA, WAS HALTED WITH AN ARMISTICE IN 1953, BUT HAS NEVER BEEN FORMALLY ENDED.
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM JONG UN ORDERED AN ARTILLERY FIRING DRILL NEAR THE DISPUTED BORDER IN THE SEA OFF THE WESTERN COAST, STATE-RUN MEDIA REPORTED MONDAY, PROMPTING A PROTEST FROM SOUTH KOREA』S MILITARY.
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.
GEN PRAYUT"S INVITATION WAS MADE DURING BILATERAL TALKS WITH SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT MOON JAE-IN WHICH TOOK PLACE ON THE SIDELINES OF THE 3RD ASEAN-REPUBLIC OF KOREA COMMEMORATIVE SUMMIT AND THE 1ST MEKONG-REPUBLIC OF KOREA SUMMIT IN BUSAN.
INYOUNG YOU, SOUTH KOREAN WOMAN CHARGED IN US COLLEGE BOYFRIEND』S SUICIDE, SENT HIM 47,000 TEXT MESSAGES IN TWO MONTHS BEFORE HIS DEATH
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.
NETFLIX (NTFLX) HAS INKED A MULTIYEAR CONTENT DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT WITH SOUTH KOREA』S JTBC CONTENT HUB, DEADLINE REPORTED YESTERDAY. THE PARTNERSHIP, THROUGH WHICH NETFLIX WILL BE ABLE TO STREAM JTBC』S PREMIUM SOUTH KOREAN TV DRAMAS ACROSS OVER 190 COUNTRIES, WILL HIT THE SCREEN IN 2020.
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 DEFENSE AGAINST NORTH KOREA. WOMEN ARE EXEMPT, BUT CAN ENLIST.
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.

 

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