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South Korea’s President Wants to Overhaul National Service with Selective Conscription

SEDaily reports that: As part of efforts toward self-reliant defense, Lee called for accelerating defense reform and raised the topic of “selective conscription.” The selective conscription system, which Lee has advocated since his presidential candidacy, would maintain the current mandatory conscription system while allowing eligible conscripts to choose between short-term enlistment (10 months of service) […]
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Policy Brief: Gender Polarization among South Korean Youth: Determinants, Conscription, and Comparative Insights from Sweden

In a new interesting policy brief of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Hannah Kim points out the damage to gender relations in South Korea. Among the various structural drivers, male-only conscription in South Korea remains one of the most enduring and polarizing institutions affecting young men. (…) The symbolic weight of conscription has […]
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Obligatory military service is one of the greatest threats to the security, liberty, and future of young Europeans. We aim to make an evidence-based case against conscription and save thousands of men from forced military service.

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