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Originally Posted by Wasabista
Follow-up question: Why does the government lavish the Korean community with the subsidies you described? Is it related to war reparations treaties?
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It's more about the post-WW2 hassles when the Japanese government encouraged a lot of Korean families to move to Japan for the booming industries around the 1930s and 1940s.
They couldn't alienate them completely after the end of the world war. So they only do a lip service by funding
Mindan and the
Souren groups.
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And if they're male South Korean citizens, aren't they up for compulsory military service?
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a male with a South Korean citizenship =/= must go to military
It's more than that. Where in the world did you get this idea?
There are two
de facto requirements for South Koreans to do their forced military service:
1) you must need a South Korean citizenship.
2) you must
born in South Korea.