In California, a man punishing his son in his garden attracts the attention of prying neighbors. TV report (2012). All this has since been improved, and Chosen to-day may well boast of having some of the best prisons in the Orient. The system of enslaving criminals once obtained in Chosen, but that of setting them to certain kinds of work, so that they might learn a trade and earn an honest living after their discharge, was entirely unknown in the country. The prisons in Chosen are now provided with workshops of every kind and no prisoner is suffered to idle, while their spiritual and moral welfare is also attended to by special instructors and chaplains. [37] As early as the mid-1890s, particularly after the assassination of Queen Min [1895], small, armed bands of guerrilla fighters emerged to harass the Japanese and other foreign enemies of the kingdom. Known as righteous armies . . . these groups were often organized by local literati, and their patriotism focused on supporting the monarch and the [Joseon] system. The movement grew rapidly after the announcement of the Protectorate Treaty [1905]. . . . Their pronouncements were very traditional: their goal was to protect the monarch, resist the Japanese, and restore independence. . . . The disbanding of the Korean army in 1907 further swelled the ranks of the uibyeong groups. . . . Most bands numbered in the hundreds, but some uibyeong were able to put several thousand together against the Japanese army. The largest encounter involved an army of 10,000. . . . The Righteous Army activity reached a peak in 1907 with Japanese estimates of nearly 70,000 irregulars challenging Japanese forces in 1500 clashes[,] . . . sporadic fighting continued for a year after the annexation. The meticulous Japanese military ultimately numbered Korean deaths in the conflicts at 17,690. [74] Canada, much clearer picture of the paddling table over which prisoners were bent to receive judicial punishment in federal penitentiary, 1903 to 1968

United Kingdom: computer-generated impression of flogging of junior seaman over the bare breech on board ship, c.1820 (view from 3 different angles) Germany: caning demonstration at the school museum in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, 2008, supposedly representing 1875

2. Pretend you’re looking for your keys in your pocket

Brunei: school students look at picture supposedly showing the results of a judicial caning, c.2000 Fig. 29. “Korean Customs: The Strangling of Criminals,” in East Asia Image Collection, http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia/imperial-postcards/ip0856. Kim Yongon, Kankoku kingendaishi jiten, 185.

United States (probably): man paddles small boy, jocular posed picture artificially coloured, possibly c.1900 Three versions of a scene from one of the St Johns schools of Canada, part of our series on "Top CP Schools". Fig. 24. Photographs of floggings with Japanese officers present. Left: “S 41 The Convict About [sic] to Be Flagged [sic].” http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia/imperial-postcards/ip0855. Right: “Rioters Penalty Execution at Korea,” East Asia Image Collection, http://digital.lafayette.edu/collections/eastasia/imperial-postcards/ip0452.

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A very brief glimpse of a hard paddle swat administered at a private Catholic boys' high school in Louisiana.