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alternative service system for conscientious objectors will take effect today (26th).
Instead of going to the military, you can camp for 36 months in a correctional facility such as a prison.
Reporter Im Sang-beom reports.
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63 conscientious objectors based on their religious beliefs and other conscientious conscientious objectors are starting alternative service at correctional facilities such as prisons.
It has been more than two years since the Constitutional Court ruled inconsistent with the Military Service Act in 2018, which did not regulate alternative service as military service.
The first 63 people convened were conscientious objectors based on religious beliefs, etc., and were convicted in court.
They will be trained at the Alternative Service Training Center in Daejeon Prison for the next three weeks.
Afterwards, they were assigned to Daejeon Prison and Mokpo Prison and served in camp for 36 months.
[Lee Young-hee/Director of Correction Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice: I think it will be a big turning point for our society to expand diversity and develop into a coexisting society.]
Alternative service personnel are required to carry out food service, maintenance of goods facilities, and health and sanitation assistance in the prison
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It's possible.
However, it was decided to exclude the protection service using weapons as it was deemed to violate the freedom of conscience.
Salary and vacation are the same as active duty soldiers, and negligence or departure from service is subject to the same level of punishment as social service workers.
Since the establishment of the substitute station judging committee in June, 626 people have been transferred to the substitute station until now.