Regarding labor laws in Korea, Korean employees are paid based on job title and years of working for the company, compared to the United States where people they get paid based on what they do. (Law 360, New York, Where the US and Korea Labor Laws Divide, June 3, 2014) Furthermore, despite the fact that Korea also guarantees freedom of speech and press through constitutional law, a 1989 Supreme Court decision showed on the case of "Illustrating a paratrooper killing citizens in Gwangju, 1980" says the opposite. The painter was sentenced to 18 months in prison, due to his "intent to defame the soldiers by calling them murderers of civilians". (Liberal Law and The Press In South Korea, School of Law University in Maryland, p. 8) This case was absurd as the Gwangju uprising in the 1980s ended with the army's indiscriminate fire on citizens, resulting in hundreds of dead, injured, and brought to the police labeled as mob. More recently, on July 18, 2015, a National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent committed suicide in his car, with a letter informing him that the NIS was not trying to spy on citizens. (KJ Kwon and Hilary Whiteman, CNN, South Korean intelligence employee commits suicide, leaves note, Monday, July 20, 2015) A few days before the incident, some evidence was revealed that NIS had purchased a spy program and implemented it in some free mobile applications. The worst part is that the program is uniform
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