Touchy Issues

Discrimination for the blind carries the day in Korea, where the high court sided with blind masseurs seeking to uphold their century-old monoploy on massage licenses. Justice, never blind, may have eyeballed the fact that two visually impaired backrubbers offed themselves in protest to the more recently law letting ooglers knead. The court’s decision upholding Korea’s criminalization of adultery is also worked into this NYT report.

Topics: Korea

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:14 pm on Thursday, October 30, 2008

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