Conscientious Objectors in South Korea Will Do Alternative Mandatory Service in Correctional Facilities
It looks like the prisons in South Korea will soon be staffed with Jehovah’s Witnesses and other religions that forbid military service:
Able-bodied men who refuse to serve in the military for religious reasons will be subject to three years of alternative duty at correctional facilities, the Ministry of Defense said Friday.
Korea Times
In its draft guideline for revision of the conscription law, the ministry also said alternative duty will become possible in January 2020.
The move comes after the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that religious faith is a valid reason to refuse military service and the law should be amended accordingly.
The decision triggered a dispute over where, and for how long, the conscientious objectors should serve their alternative duty, so other conscripts, many of them serving the country under harsh conditions, do not feel left out emotionally.
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Catch ’em one way, catch ’em another.
It is kind of ironic that instead of sitting in the jail, the conscientious objectors will now being running it.
Doesn’t really matter as they’ll be among the first sent to reeducation camps under the Fatty Regime.