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Article: S. Korean soldiers to sleep in beds starting in 2013: ministry.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- April 28, 2009
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SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's military said Monday it plans to provide each soldier with an individual bed by 2013, dispensing with sleeping on floors. Most South Korean rank-and-filers sleep crammed against one another in quarters partitioned by platoon, a source of complaints about mandatory service in the country's armed forces. The Ministry of National Defense said it will introduce a 6.3-meter-square bed for each non-officer-level soldier starting in early 2013. Koreans traditionally sleep on heated floors, but ...
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