Three ROK Army Cadets Expelled Day Before Graduation for Visiting Prostitutes
It looks like the ROK military like the US military has taken a very strong stance against prostitution:
Three Korea Military Academy (KMA) cadets were expelled a day before their graduation for allegedly visiting prostitutes, the elite school said on Friday.
“We received intelligence regarding their illegal activity on Monday and it was proven grounded through an internal investigation,” a KMA official said.
The official said the three visited a “massage parlor” in Gangnam, an entertainment district in southern Seoul, on Feb. 4. “One of the cadets admitted having sex there, while the others claim they didn’t, arguing they paid money but didn’t (have sex) out of a sense of guilt,” the official said.
A separate police investigation is under way, the official said.
The KMA had it 73rd commencement on Friday with 248 graduates who will be commissioned as Army second lieutenants. The highest distinction, summa cum laude, went to female cadet Lee Eun-ae. [Korea Times]
Soldiers visiting prostitutes? The horror.
Korea is turning into America in some of the wrong ways.
It’s going to be time to move to another country one of these days…
…sitting around and bitching about when Korea was cool.
Biggest Gripe: The food is starting to suck. The Ma & Pa soup and rice places are vanishing to be replaced by corporate chains pushing out chemical-tasting soup stock made in a distant factory. And everything is drenched in sugar… sweet beyond edibility and fattening up the new generation of schoolgirls.
Second Biggest Gripe: There are increasing regulations I have to deal with that are not designed for anything other than protecting certain industries, ensuring government intrusiveness, or forcing dependence on connected companies. This has long been the case in large industries… but it has expanded in recent years to smaller industries. Pure fuuking irritating bullshyt… and getting worse.
If soldiers going to prostitutes is really wrong, there are ways to deal with it other than throwing away all the time and resources used to train up these soldiers. This reeks of the Zero Tolerance bullshyt that has wounded so many American organizations by not preventing or solving real problems while attacking and embittering many who did little wrong.
@Chickenhead, I agree that over past 20 years I have noticed how much fatter Koreans are becoming and a lot of it is because of the corporate restaurant food many people eat now. With that said obesity is no where near as bad as in the US.
Look at what has happened to the ME since we exported KFC:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/26/health/middle-east-obesity-diabetes-epidemic/