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Conscription in South Korea has existed since 1957 and requires male citizens between the ages of 18 and 35 to perform compulsory military service. [1] [2] Women are not required to perform military service, but they may voluntarily join the military.
This size is maintained through conscription: All able-bodied South Korean males must complete military service (18 months for the army, auxiliary police, and marines, 20 months for the navy and conscripted firefighters, 21 months for the air force and social service, and 36 months for alternative service) between the ages of 18 and 35. [2]
However, while the military service period continues to be reduced, the service period of school military officers continues to be fixed, and for this reason, the 61st school district (commissioned officer in 2023) candidates were not enough.[4] In Korea, the shorter the military service period, the higher the preference.
In 1958, North Korea adopted Cabinet Decision number 148 to define service of conscripts as three and a half years in the army and four years in the navy. In 1993, service was expanded to ten years on the orders of Kim Jong Il. [5] In 1996, conscription was further extended and conscripts will now have to serve until they are aged 30. [4]
That momentum was interrupted by South Korea’s requirement that all able-bodied men between the ages of 18 and 28 serve 18 to 21 months in the military or equivalent civilian service. South ...
Under South Korean law, all able-bodied men are required to perform 18-21 months of military service. NBC News notes that the band has already been granted a two-year exte BTS Members Prepare to ...
A man in South Korea has been found guilty of deliberately gaining weight to avoid the country's mandatory military service, according to reports. On Tuesday, Nov. 26, the Seoul Eastern District ...
South Korea has mandatory military service of 18 (army, marines), 20 (navy), 21 (air force and civil service), 36 (special civil service) months. There is 3 years alternative for conscientious objectors from 2020 (civil service in prison).