SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The competition to join the South Korean military, which recently heightened amid a nation-wide economic downturn and rising youth unemployment, is subsiding with the number of South Korean youth gradually declining. According to the Ministry of National Defense, there were 566,656 young applicants to South Korea’s mandatory military service [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – For the first time in the 13 years since 2004, a South Korean court has ruled that a reservist who said no to reserve training is innocent. Judge Lee Hyung-gul from the Cheongju District Court ruled Sunday that a 34-year-old man identified as Yoo was innocent of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s ruling Saenuri Party said Monday around 3,400 men are giving up their citizenship annually to evade the mandatory military duty, adding the government should take steps to restrict their economic activities in the country. Currently, all able-bodied South Korean men between the ages of 18 and 35 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Military service is no voluntary option for South Korean men. The country, which is still technically at war with its northern neighbor, currently practices conscription, and legislation mandates that all men between 18 and 35 years of age complete a period of military service. As of 2016, those enrolled [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – “I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for death,” said American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay in her poem ‘Conscientious Objector’. South Korean law currently mandates that all men between 18 and 25 years of age complete a period of military service. As of 2016, [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will phase out the military’s special rule that exempts natural science and engineering students from the compulsory military service in a move that takes into account the country’s dwindling population, the defense ministry said Tuesday. All able-bodied South Korean men are required to finish a two-year military [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – With the start of his mandatory military service around the corner, actor-singer Lee Seung-gi has released a song about the very subject. His agency, Hook Entertainment, said Lee will enter the Army on Feb. 1, and put out the single “I Am Joining the Military” at noon Thursday. Through [...]