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Afterswitching plates, my KCI mags have ran flawlessly for every range trip, training, and competition I have attended in the past four years. The set of mags have fed a minimum of 5000 rounds to my various 9mm Glocks, and I have never experienced a magazine-related malfunction. The mags have been dropped, thrown, stepped on, and otherwise abused, and they just keep running. Their feedlips are chewed and gnarled, but they keep feeding my Glocks like an all-you-can-eat brass and copper buffet.

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I am the daughter of South Korean immigrants. My childhood smells of soy bean paste and scallion pancakes. The most comforting sound in the world is the hiss of the rice cooker as it releases a steady jet of steam. My memories are filled with rice cake soup in January, the soft hum of a Korean drama playing in the background, and the honeyed voice of Kim Kwang Seok on lazy Sunday afternoons.

That was the same summer that, as our family performed Jesa, a memorial ceremony dedicated to our ancestors, I discovered that only the men of the household were allowed to perform the ceremony as the women prepared the enormous amount of food required for the event. Jesa is very important to Korean culture and is one of the few traditional ceremonies that Koreans still often follow faithfully, yet these strict gender roles are difficult to ignore. How do I express my appreciation for my culture despite the intense gender imbalances that exist within it?

South Korea remains a society deeply rooted in patriarchy. In 2018, the World Economic Forum ranked South Korea 115th out of 149 countries in gender equality, with the United States, China, and India ranked notably higher in gender equality. On the surface, South Korean women appear to have made strides towards gender equity. In 2013, South Korea elected its first female president. In 2001, the independent Ministry of Gender Equality and Family was founded. Policy-wise, the South Korean government has continued to make strides towards promoting gender equality.

South Korean women are still treated as second-class citizens, yet South Korean society vehemently refuses to acknowledge this inequality time and time again. In 2016, a young woman was stabbed to death in a subway station in Seoul, South Korea. The perpetrator was a man who cited the fact that he felt disregarded by women as the reason for the attack. Security cameras show the man singling out the woman after letting multiple men pass him by, solidifying the fact that this was a crime of gender violence.

In spite of the overarching patriarchal organization of South Korea, the sexist Korean values about women which run so deep in different aspects of my culture were actively shattered for me by the fact that my father has lived separately from the rest of our family for the majority of my life, leaving my mother to raise us by herself. How could I believe that women were somehow inferior or incapable in comparison to men when I was raised by a woman who actively disproved all the limitations placed on women?

Illustration: Diane Lin is an illustrator and art editor for F-Word magazine. She is a junior majoring in Economics and minoring in Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

The Korean Magazine Museum is a museum in the district of Yeouido in Seoul, South Korea. It was established on March 21, 2002, to promote Korean magazines in the competitive global arena. The museum consists of three underground floors and seven upperground floors for a total floor space of 1703 pyeong (app. 5,623 m2). Admission is free with opening hours from Monday to Saturday (10:00-18:00). The museum is closed on Sundays and national holidays.

I am excited! Santa came with this exotic post today and gave me my own copy of the Korean design and lifestyle magazine where I have been interviewed for 2 months ago! (only the unboxing itself was already fun!)

Even before perestroika, ordinary Soviet people would laugh at the Kim dynasty and condescendingly pity the North Koreans. They would flip through the pages of Korea magazine and count their blessings. By visiting Kim and praising him as a good friend, therefore, Putin is not recreating Soviet reality and Soviet relations, but creating new ones.

The same goes for war. Since the end of hostilities and freezing of the Korean War, the threat of using military force has been a key commodity for North Korea, with a value that has fluctuated depending on the circumstances. But for decades, Pyongyang has not moved from words to deeds, while Putin turned off down that path and followed it to the end in the space of just a few months.

Unlike the Kims, whose twenty-first century policies have fluctuated within the usual North Korean corridor of thawing and tensions in relations with the West and South Korea, Putin has undergone an evolution, as illustrated by the difference between his two visits to North Korea.

It soon became clear, however, that Kim had no intention of curtailing his missile program. Putin never saw Kim Jong Il again. In 2006, Russia officially condemned the test of a North Korean ballistic missile, and in 2009, after another North Korean nuclear test, Russia (and China) joined sanctions against Pyongyang.

A quarter of a century after his first visit, Putin traveled to Pyongyang this week in an entirely different capacity: not as a young and pragmatic representative of the global order who would help improve relations with those who have not yet entered it, but as the self-proclaimed leader of the anti-globalist coalition, as one outcast meeting another, ready to join forces to stand up to the world as it is now.

Of course, both Putin and Kim consider themselves staunch pragmatists who bear no resemblance to the crazy ideological Marxists and anti-imperialists of the twentieth century. One needs ammunition for the war in Ukraine; the other needs money, military technologies, and hydrocarbons; and both need ways around sanctions and geopolitical counterbalances, for which they look to each other. Today, however, the greater cynic appears to be Kim, while Putin looks like the more emotional, affronted, bitter, and therefore ideologically motivated one of the pair.

The SMLE No. 1 MkIII* was the standard personal weapon of Australian troops in Korea. Reliable and accurate, the Lee Enfield had first entered service with the Australian Army in 1908 as the Mk III, and had been carried by Australian soldiers in both world wars. The SMLE was a manually operated, bolt-action weapon. It fired .303-inch calibre ammunition that was fed from a ten-round detachable magazine. This magazine could be quickly reloaded while still on the weapon by the use of five round charger clips (see image). A well-trained soldier could fire up to 15 aimed shots per minute, which included reloading the magazine. It's effective range was approximately 3,000 metres; however, it was rarely used for distances over 1,000 metres. The SMLE could also be fitted with a bayonet with a 43 cm blade.

Private Alf Lees reloads his SMLE No. 1 MkIII* rifle with a charger clip while his mates from B Company, 3 RAR, give covering fire to another section pinned down in front of a Chinese position. HOBJ2070

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