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Recently both your editorial writer and a female contributor to In
My View expressed utter dismay and disbelief that Korean veterans
have gotten so angry over the constitutional court''s decision to
strike down a policy to award bonus points to the test scores of
former soldiers who apply for low-level government jobs.
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The anger of these men makes perfect sense to me. Korean men must
give 26 months of their young lives to an army that neither pays
them for their efforts or offers them anything in the way of comfort
or perks. Military service in Korea, according the hundreds of
Korean men I have spoken to, is a tedious period of social and
physical deprivation. And it is dangerous. Every year scores of
young Korean men are killed while performing tasks such as serving
in flood rescue operations and fighting off rabid demonstrators on
the streets of Seoul. Yet these fallen heroes receive no tribute.
no monuments are erected in their honor. Their deaths are footnotes
in the news.
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What makes the front pages of newspapers and the top stories in TV
news shows in their stead? Feature stories about young women at
elite officer training academies and their "bravery" in being women
trying to make it in the Korean military.
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Always in these pieces, which seem to dominate the media now every
Veteran''s Day the same way the several dozen American nurses who
served in the Vietnam war now own that holiday in America, there is
some feminist expert holding forth on the natural right of women to
get the top prestige jobs in the military. It never ceases to amaze
me how the expert never mentions requiring women to share in the
hardships of the rank and file. The only conclusion to be drawn from
such blatant omissions is that Korea''s feminists believe that the
dangerous and thankless service of Korea''s half a million grunts
is "men''s work."
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In her In My View piece, Sohn Jung-min displayed classic
feminist reasoning: Men should not be compensated, Sohn
claimed, for their military service because women have such
hard lives already. Sohn even went so far as to say that the
government should compensate women for doing housework and
having babies, but should not give men a single won for their
26 months of military service.
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Does this make sense to anyone with a brain not poisoned by
radical feminism? Does the government force women to have
babies? Who benefits more from having a baby, the woman who
becomes a mother or the government? Yet, how many young men
would go through 26-months of unpaid military hell if the law
didn''t force them to.
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Àº ¼ÕÁ¤¹ÎÀÇ ÁÖÀåÀÌ ¸»ÀÌ µÈ´Ù°í »ý°¢ÇÒ±î?
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½á ´©°¡ ´õ À̵æÀ» º¸´Â°¡?
Ãâ»êÀ» ÇÔÀ¸·Î½á ¾î¸Ó´Ï°¡ µÇ´Â ¿©ÀÚ°¡ ´õ À̵æÀ» º¸´Â°¡? ¾Æ´Ï¸é
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µéÀÌ ¿ù±Þµµ ¹ÞÁö ¸øÇÏ´Â 26°³¿ùÀÇ ±ºº¹¹«¸¦ ÇÒ·Á°í Çϰڴ°¡?
I am sure Sohn''s absurd arguments brought cheers among all
those horribly disadvantaged young women at Ehwa University
who were responsible for initiating the lawsuit that killed
the test bonus and subsequently destroyed the morale of the
nation''s fighting men.
À̹ø ¼Ò¼ÛÀ» Á¦±âÇÔÀ¸·Î½á ±º°¡»êÁ¡ ÆóÁö¿Í ´õºÒ¾î Çѱ¹ ±ºÇÊÀÚµé
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But how is it that some pampered Ewha princess with her cell
phone and European vacations has the gall to claim that some
working class young man fresh out of getting bottles and
rocks thrown at his skull for 26 months of riot police duty
is more "privileged" than she in this society? Feminism would
really be good for some laughs if hadn''t ruined the ability
to reason in so many.
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ÀÇ ÀþÀºÀ̵麸°í À̵éÀÌ ÀÌ »çȸ¿¡¼ Àڽŵ麸´Ù ´õ ¸¹Àº Ư±ÇÀ»
°¡Áö°í ÀÖ´Ù°í ÁÖÀåÇϴ°¡?
What truly amazes me in this whole affair is that Korean men
have not been more militant in their response to the court''s
decision to strip away the lone benefit of their service. The
Herald editorial writers were shocked that a website got
hacked; I am surprised there hasn''t been a full-scale revolt
of the armed forces.
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ÀÚµéÀÇ ¹ÝÀÀÀÌ ±×¸® È£ÀüÀûÀÌÁö ¾Ê´Ù´Â°ÍÀ̾ú´Ù. Çì·²µå ½Å¹®ÀÇ »ç
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¿ÀÈ÷·Á ´ëÇѹα¹ ±º´ë¿¡¼ ´ë±Ô¸ðÀÇ ¹Ýµ¿ÀÌ ¾ø¾ú´Ù´Â°Ô ³î¶ø´Ù.
What are these men risking their lives for? A constitution
and a nation that doesn''t forbid the use of young able-bodied
men as slave labor (young soldiers are called out to save the
land of wealthy farmers in the rainy season), but absolutely
forbids the awarding of 3 to 5 percent in extra points for
veterans on a test for the lowest possible positions in the
government because it offends the sensibilities of Ewha
princesses? Moreover, what is the big deal about an extra
three to five percent in points on a test. It seems to me
that such a miniscule gap could easily be closed with a
little bit of extra study. Oh, I forgot, feminism is not
about giving women a chance to prove themselves; it is about
giving women things because they are women.
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¸¦ ´Þ¶ó°í ÁÖÀåÇÏ´Â°Ô ¾Æ´ÏÁö?, Æä¹Ì´ÏÁòÀº ´ÜÁö ÀڽŵéÀÌ ¿©ÀÚ¶ó
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Were feminism worth the paper its manifestos are printed on,
Korea''s women would be fighting to require that all women be
drafted as well as men to serve the nation for 26 months. But
don''t anyone hold his or her breath on that one. The Ehwa
princesses would absolutely die if they had to wear nothing
but green for two years, and the Korean courts, no doubt,
would be sensitive to their pain.
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