Picture of the Day: ROTC Cadet Receives Award for Being Top Cadet in the ROK

The military’s glass ceiling continues to break as Lee Su-ji, an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadet of Sungshin Women’s University, has been commissioned after winning an award conferred upon the most-outstanding military trainee.

According to the Ministry of National Defense, a total of 3,971 cadets began their duties as junior officers in the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, Monday, and Lee, a law major at the Seoul-based school, received the top prize for Army cadets from President Moon Jae-in. 

The 22-year-old is the third female Army cadet to graduate summa cum laude in the military program. [Korea Times]
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setnaffa
setnaffa
4 years ago

At this rate, South Korea’s military will be as formidable as Denmark’s in no time at all…

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
4 years ago

One (of many) problems with affirmative action and other diversity programs is that no matter how great the woman or minority is, there is a nagging suspicion their reward was unearned and they are actually inferior to their unrecognized peers.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
4 years ago

CH, exactly.

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