South Korean Jehovah’s Witnesses begin prison work terms

Dozens of South Korean Jehovah’s Witnesses in suits and ties lined up to enter a prison on Monday — to begin training as administrators, rather than the jail terms they used to face as conscientious objectors. For decades the only alternative was conviction and jail, and with it lifelong stigma, but in total tens of thousands of conscientious objectors, many of them Jehovah’s Witnesses, have been willing to pay that price to adhere to their…