Is It A Human Right Offense to Shave Head During Basic Training?
That is what the National Human Rights Commission of Korea believes:
The nation’s human rights watchdog recommended the Korean Air Force to stop making new trainees shave their heads, Monday, saying the practice is an excessive restriction of the soldiers’ rights.
Unlike their counterparts in the Korean army and navy, air force recruits are required to completely shave their heads during the month-long training period. Army or navy trainees, on the other hand, are allowed to keep a crew cut up to 5 cm length at the front.The complaint was brought to the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) last April. The complainant ― the parent of an Air Force trainee at the time ― claimed the head-shaving practice was an encroachment on soldiers’ human rights.
Korea Times
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Frankly, this is the same as allowing sikhs to keep beard and turban. Folks who can’t or won’t abide by the rules ought to get two years of cleaning streets in Pohang or Masan… by hand… with a toothbrush…
The point of basic training is to break down the individual and rebuild him as a team member. As someone who can give their all to support lawful orders by their command authority.
If Koreans want to be slaves, this is a great 1st step.
Human rights violation? Walk north until you run into tall fences and barbed wire, and there you will witness human rights violations you can wring your hands and be dismayed all day and through the night. Shaving ones head for training for a month served 2 purposes: first, it forces a person to lose ones self identity and reform into a member of a team. Second, it also is hygienic, as airmen with head lice or other scalp conditions to be remedied. Last, it’s hair, like finger & toenails will always grow. After training, you can grow your hair as long as the military service will allow.