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Brothers in Arms and Brothers in Christ?: The Military and the Catholic Church as Sources for Modern Korean Masculinity
- Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics
- The Society of Christian Ethics
- Volume 32, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2012
- pp. 75-92
- 10.1353/sce.2012.0045
- Article
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In this essay I examine how compulsory military service and the Roman Catholic Church uphold and perpetuate an inadequate notion of masculinity in South Korea. I argue that the militaristic and Catholic definitions of masculinity significantly and pejoratively affect Korean culture. To unlearn these definitions, I propose an educational “readjusting” program that denounces any unjust discrimination on the basis of sex and gender.