Tracking 60 Minutes 'Real Men in Crisis' Episode The number of people who have been discharged from the military due to various mental and physical illnesses has reached a whopping 10,000 in the past 6 years. Many of them have worsened their illnesses because they did not receive proper treatment in the early stages of their illnesses. Furthermore, they suffer from mental and physical pain even after returning to society because they do not receive compensation from the state for various reasons such as unknown causes. In 2014, Tracking 60 Minutes looked into the problems of the military medical system through Korean youth who have had their futures taken away. Are the military and the state fulfilling their proper responsibilities in a situation where various absurdities in the military are constantly being raised? ■ Suspicious Deaths, What Happened There That Day? On January 19, 2014, trainee Lee Kang-min (pseudonym), who had only been enlisted for a month, returned as a cold corpse. On the 16th, Kang-min's family received a letter. Kang-min said that he had been beaten up for secretly going to the bathroom. He kept having to pee and was on the verge of wetting his pants, but his superiors just told him to hold it in. The military medical corps classified the soldier who kept asking to be sent to the bathroom as mentally ill and had him receive psychiatric counseling on January 15. However, Kang Min was taken to the Armed Forces Daegu Hospital by ambulance that day and later transferred to Yeongnam University Hospital, where he died three days later. Why did Kang Min, a healthy 22-year-old who had been evaluated as normal in all items during his physical examination for military service, suddenly collapse and die? On January 13, Kang Min’s medical records at the Armed Forces Daegu Hospital showed his blood sugar level as +++999. This was above the measurement limit. The production team tracked down the truth about the 13th, when Kang Min’s death began. ■ The military does not protect my son Every day, 24-year-old Jo Hwang-hee’s mother washes her grown son’s hair, prepares his meals, rips open a medicine bag, and gives him medicine. This is because he came back with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) due to not receiving proper initial treatment during his military training. Lee Eun-hyung, 26, also suffered from complex regional pain syndrome due to inflammation in his ankle during his military training but not receiving proper treatment. Both of these young men were diagnosed as normal in the physical examinations conducted by the Military Manpower Administration before enlistment. However, they cannot go out even for a day without narcotic painkillers. There is no place that takes responsibility for them, who do not know how to live their lives. The Ministry of National Defense discharged them on the grounds of an injury sustained while on duty. However, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs did not provide any compensation after their discharge. The reason was that they could not prove a causal relationship between their duty and the disease. The sons of the Republic of Korea, who dreamed of a bright future in their 20s, enlisted to protect their country, but the country did not protect their future. The know-how of investigative reporting and the planning ability of a genuine documentary! In charge of the Japanese forced mobilization compensation case and the Jeju 4.3 military trial victims retrial case for 《Sisa Direct》. We are with attorney Jae-seong Lim, who has silently stood by the victims protesting against massive state violence. Every Friday at 10 p.m., KBS 1TV broadcast ✔ Tips: 010-4828-0203 / Current Affairs Direct Homepage / [email protected] ▶Homepage: http://program.kbs.co.kr/1tv/culture/... ▶Twitter: /kbssisajg ▶Facebook: /kbssisajg1 ▶Instagram: www.instagram.com/kbssisajg