North Korea executed teens for listening to K-pop, watching ‘Squid Game’: report
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North Korean authorities executed teenagers for watching the South Korean television series "Squid Game" and listening to K-pop, Amnesty International reports.
Ashley Carnahan is a writer at Fox News Digital.
It also separately documented accounts of forced labor sentences and public humiliation for consuming South Korean media elsewhere in the country, particularly for those without money or political connections.
"Usually when high school students are caught, if their family has money, they just get warnings," said Kim Joonsik, 28, who was caught watching South Korean dramas three times before leaving the country in 2019.
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