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☆ South Koreans are about to get a year or two younger, thanks to a new law
  + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Jessie Yeung Yoonjung Seo | Jessie Yeung | Yoonjung Seo | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
Seoul, South Korea CNN —South Koreans are about to get a year or two younger, thanks to a new law passed on Thursday that aims to standardize how age is calculated in the country. In South Korea, a person’s “international age” refers to the number of years since they were born, and starts at zero – the same system used in most other countries. Born on December 31, 1977, he is considered 44 by international age; 45 by calendar year age; and 46 by Korean age. The law passed Thursday will standardize the use of international age across all “judicial and administrative areas,” according to the parliament website and documents related to the bill. “The state and local governments shall encourage citizens to use their ‘international age’ and conduct necessary promotion for that,” it says.
☆ South Koreans set to become younger as traditional way of counting age scrapped
  + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Soo-Hyang Choi | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/2] Pedestrians wearing masks walk with umbrellas as it rains amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in central Seoul, South Korea, November 19, 2020. REUTERS/Heo RanSEOUL, Dec 8 (Reuters) - South Korea on Thursday passed laws to scrap its traditional method of counting ages and adopt the international standard - a shift which will make its citizens either 1 or 2 years younger on official documents. Koreans are deemed to be a year old when born and a year is added every Jan. 1. A separate system also exists for conscription purposes or calculating the legal age to drink alcohol and smoke, in which a person's age is calculated from zero at birth and a year is added on Jan. 1. Since the early 1960s, however, South Korea has for medical and legal documents also used the international norm of calculating from zero at birth and adding a year on every birthday.
☆ Despite stark gender inequality in South Korea, hostility to feminism is growing
  + stars: | 2022-12-04 | by ( Haeryun Kang | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
SEOUL, South Korea — Lee Yunju has poked her head in the feminism aisle of the library at her university in Daegu, South Korea. President of South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol. In South Korea, it’s the gender issue.”To some, the gender ministry is a symbol of what they see as the excesses of feminism. The gender ministry was founded in 2001 under the Kim Dae-jung administration, South Korea’s first left-leaning government. The gender ministry aims to protect the marginalized in our society.
☆ Ex-South Korean official arrested over case of man slain by North Korea
  + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
SEOUL, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A former South Korean national security advisor was arrested on Saturday over his suspected manipulation of a 2020 case where a fisheries official was killed at sea by North Korean troops. The incumbent President Yoon Suk-yeol's government has reversed that interpretation, saying there was no evidence of a defection attempt. Prosecutors also launched an investigation into Lee's death and a 2019 case in which two North Korean fishermen were deported to the isolated country against their will. Yoon's ruling People Power party said Moon and his aides "not only let Lee die but killed his honour by claiming his defection while treading on eggshells around (North Korean leader) Kim Jong Un's regime." He criticised Moon for demanding evidence to show why his brother did not defect, without presenting any proof to back his own claim.
☆ South Korea's LGBTQ community confronts crushing headwinds in fight for equality
  + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Michael Mitsanas | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +8 min
NBC News spoke with South Korean lawmakers, human rights organizations and dozens of LGBTQ South Koreans in three of the country’s largest cities: Seoul, Daegu and Busan. Most say a bill that would outlaw discrimination against all minority groups — including the LGBTQ community — is the critical first step toward legal equality. The documentary filmmaker turned progressive lawmaker calls herself an advocate for this country’s LGBTQ community. This, he added, “includes South Korea.”While support for a comprehensive nondiscrimination bill is strong in South Korea, Jang concedes that the odds of one passing, at least in the near future, are slim. The country’s conservative president and People Power Party oppose a comprehensive nondiscrimination bill, while the left-leaning Democratic Party has expressed lukewarm support.
☆ As North Korea flexes its military muscles, some of South Korea's best submarines may be sidelined
  + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Michael Peck | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
Nine of South Korea's submarines have defects that could sideline them for extended periods. The issue comes to light as North Korea launches scores of missiles in shows of force to its neighbors. South Korea's sub woes come as North Korea continues to issue threats over joint US-South Korean military exercises that Pyongyang claims are a rehearsal for an invasion. Aircraft in particular would be key to destroying North Korean nuclear sites, artillery emplacements, and even decapitation strikes against the North's leaders. Superior US and South Korean naval capabilities — perhaps assisted by Japanese forces — allow for amphibious landings, special-forces raids, blockades, and shore bombardment.
☆ Analysis: Deal for reducing military tensions with North Korea could go 'back to square one'
  + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Josh Smith Hyonhee Shin | Josh Smith | Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +5 min
The North said South Korea had resumed using propaganda loudspeakers at the border in violation of the agreement. For now, South Korea says it is not calling the CMA off, but is urging North Korea to abide by its measures. North Korea has also not officially abrogated the deal, and the South's ministry of defence told Reuters that inter-Korean military hotlines are operating. This year South Korea and its U.S. allies have responded to a record number of North Korean missile tests with stepped up military drills. Those have been met with more tests and drills from North Korea, including rare warplane sorties near the border.
☆ S.Korea opposition boycotts Yoon budget speech in battle of wills
  + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Hyonhee Shin | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +3 min
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol leaves after speaking on the government budget at the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea, 25 October 2022. JEON HEON-KYUN/Pool via REUTERSSEOUL, Oct 25 (Reuters) - South Korea's opposition lawmakers boycotted President Yoon Suk-yeol's first budget speech to parliament on Tuesday to protest against a criminal probe surrounding the opposition leader, in an escalating battle of wills that could complicate deliberations. They demanded an apology, while threatening to boycott the budget speech. Yoon refused, saying on Monday that attaching any conditions to attendance at his speech would be "unprecedented in our constitutional history". Yoon's Tuesday speech called for swift passage of the budget with bipartisan support, to ease households' economic hardship and improve people's livelihoods.
☆ South Korea's F-35A fighter jets had to be grounded 172 times over 18 months because of malfunctions
  + stars: | 2022-10-10 | by ( David Cenciotti | The Aviationist | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
A South Korean lawmaker is concerned about the issues affecting the country's F-35A fighter jets. The jets were "operationally unready" 234 times in an 18-month period ending in June 2022, the lawmaker said, citing air force data. A South Korean Air Force F-35A. A South Korean F-35A. In total, South Korea ordered 40 F-35A, the last of those was delivered in January this year.
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