This is ridiculous. It's suppression of free speech to make a high school students, principal, & parents to apologize for wanting to go to Starbucks.
KIM Young-su (ROK Navy Major, retired) stated AHN Gyu-baek, Defense Minister, went AWOL when he was a Bangwibyeong--a cross between a reservist & social service personnel (not an active duty soldier, but commutes to work from home, rather than lives in the barracks).
A deserter is not someone the soldiers can look up to.
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In Gwangju in May 1980, the so called "civilian militia" rigged the South Jeolla government building with 2,100 dynamite. If exploded, it would've destroyed the building itself & those around it for blocks. A government EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) specialist risked his life un-rigging them over 2 days --the risk of explosion & the risk of being discovered by the radical "civilian militia," both of which would be deadly.
The EOD specialist received an award for saving lives. But when Rho Moo-hyun became the president, Rho rescinded the award.
He's innocent, but they put him in jail. All he did was to get down on his knees before the South Korean lawmakers to plead with them to do something for election integrity. The police then dragged him away, & now jailed him.