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BAREBACKED a 26 year old GERMAN CANADIAN last night. Taking ?s ITT. WGWAG!
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:36 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing This one was epic.
I am suspicious right off the bat because after we spoke on an app, she gave me a MYANMAR number.
But she stated in her profile that she is 178cm. And she was blonde with blue eyes.
I still take my chances and earlier this week she tells me shes drinking and tells me to send cock pics.
I send her body pics and ask to voice confirm. She goes MIA.
Of course I assume shes some scammer and forget about her. Then she suddenly texts me saying that she wants to see my cock again.
I ask her to voice confirm and she actually sends a voice message but I hear two girls randomly talking in a crowded place and ask for a specific message. She confirms as requested.
Here is where it gets lulzy, I send her videos of my cock and she straight up agrees to come over after shes done hanging out with her friend.
She comes over and we fuck. I am stunned at how hot this girl is. German-Canadian blonde with blue eyes. Sick body. Sick.
She tells me I have to use a condom when we fuck while shes sucking my cock and I ask her if shes on the pill.
Says shes allergic to the pill and tells me that I dont have to wear a condom if I bust outside. LOL. So of course I bareback her.
I cum in her mouth and she swallows and then we immediately go for round 2 because I came too fast hahaha.
Then we have an extremely lulzy post-fuck conversation about how she only dates Asian guys and white guys give her a lot of shit for it and a bunch of straight outta XOXO shit. Seriously lulzy.
First Canadian of 2018 and easily the hottest Canadian I've fucked.
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Date: January 15th, 2024 11:04 PM Author: balding aphrodisiac dragon nowag Conscription in South Korea
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
See also flag South Korea portal Forced Labour Convention Supplementary service in South Korea Social service agent Conscription in North Korea |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: Passionate Chapel EXPLAIN how your wife brutally NOWAGd you (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877706) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:47 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing shes in russia (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877709) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:48 PM Author: Passionate Chapel Thats why my post said EXPLAIN so lets hear the details about her PWNING and NOWAGING the FUCK out of you before going home. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877719) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:49 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing http://xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3930338&mc=299&forum_id=2
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:51 PM Author: Passionate Chapel Yea I read your pathetic attempt to deflect and pretend it was flame. Now tell us the real story or are you admitting (as we all assumed) that these girl threads are flame. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877740) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:56 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing everything up to visiting the russian consulate and getting the certificate is true
but yeah man shes back in russia. we still text every day though |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: cowardly plaza Quit dodging like a pathetic dweeb. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877872) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:11 PM Author: Passionate Chapel You still arent answering the question NOWAG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877873) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing What do you want to know, friend? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877882) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:17 PM Author: Passionate Chapel Read any of the posts in this subthread (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877910) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:18 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Pretty simple, friend.
I told her I didn't want to marry her. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:19 PM Author: cowardly plaza lmao you got swindled and dumped like a pathetic clitdick nowag, and you refuse to admit it, NEXT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877930) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:21 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Nah. We were together up until her last day here. Shes coming back later this year. The whole going to the Russian consulate thing and getting the certificate was just to fan the xoxo flame.
Did it all for TEH lulz, of course. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:26 PM Author: grizzly nighttime location travel guidebook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877963) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:29 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing oh u mad cuz big korean cock is stylin on ya (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877986) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:47 PM Author: Passionate Chapel He obviously got destroyed and has been avoiding (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35878074) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:56 PM Author: cowardly plaza (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35878121) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:25 PM Author: grizzly nighttime location travel guidebook (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877961) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:26 PM Author: Passionate Chapel LOLOLOL now tell us the real story NOWAG (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877962) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:51 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch This is just a sad display from a male butterface. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877741) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:01 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Here is the lulziest part of the post-fuck conversation:
While she was telling me about how much she likes Asian guys, she revealed that she has only fucked Chinese guys and Hong Hong guys.
Sadly for Chinese dewds, she straight up tells me that the smallest cock she's had was a Chinese guy who apparently dry humped her and then pulled down his pants. She tells me his cock was the size of her ring finger LOL.
She told him that she was busy and left him there blueballpwn3d. HAHAHA.
Then she told me about a Hong Kong guy who apparently had a big dick.
I asked her why she never fucked a Korean guy and she said she was in a relationship for several years and even after coming to Korea earlier this week, some guy she was talking to online talked big game but backed out earlier yesterday afternoon when they were supposed to meet.
Very lulzy.
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:12 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch I believe your sex stories, just not sure of the need to only talk about this as your only topic here. Seems very one-dimensional. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877876) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:20 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Who would carry the WGWAG torch on XOXO if it were not for The Gangnam WGWAG Playboy's sexcapades? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877934) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:24 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch WGWAG was so long ago and was funny as an ironic meme. There have long been exceptions to the WGWAG rule or iron chains. Earl can give you more of a background for this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877951) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:26 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Earl was doMANsticated years ago. Literally no Asian poster here talks about the white girls he fucks except for me.
I will be WGWAG-threading for as long as I post. U mad I'm fucking your nieces? |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:29 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch I have a nephew and he's 5. I'm more appalled than jealous at this point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877988) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:30 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Why do you think the board thinks I'm lying about my conquests? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877992) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:34 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch As stated before, it's one-dimensional. If you talked about other shit and had other stuff to relate to, it'd seem more believable.
Coming here to post the penthouse WGWAG letter of the week just gets tiresome for the rest of us without any other background or texture to what's going on in your life.
You've obviously fixated on the days when you couldn't even kiss a girl all through college, you happened to post here when you did -- and now you can't stop validating experiences to negate your past.
You're like the Notre Dame hero Rudy. You sucked for so long, now that you've made it your life is about the one time you did and you're validating rather than living the experience for what it is. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:38 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Fucked 2 white girls and a Chinese girl senior year before I came to Korea, u mad? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35878025) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:39 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch You still took 3 years of abuse for your WGWAG failings prior to that.
We know it scarred you in some way. I'm sure we all feel a bit responsible for the way you turned out. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:40 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing holy shit white girls be MAD that their sisters are being converted to the WGWAG cause in droves (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35878042) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:47 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch I'm pretty sure Asian men of all varieties are still below all other races on the conversion rate. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35878079) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:48 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing And yet a Korean man has gotten more pussy than literally everyone else on xoxo combined, why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35878083) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:50 PM Author: cream kink-friendly brunch literally?
okay.
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:53 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Here's another super lulzy part of our conversation:
She told me that she didn't develop her Asian fetish - she was born with it and only found Asian guys attractive from the start.
Then she showed me pictures of guys she's fucked previously. Very lulzy. |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:51 PM Author: Passionate Chapel LOL @ this NOWAGs broken CPU (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35878094) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 8:53 PM Author: Cracking Box Office Did she do gfe? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877749) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:04 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing If I had to estimate exactly how much money I spent on her it would be:
$23 for monthly app subscription $5 for a battery charger for her phone (hers wasnt working so I just gave her mine) $3-5 dollars for gas - I drove her back
But if youre wondering whether I paid to fuck her? $0 |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:08 PM Author: Cracking Box Office All that in addition to the "roses" you "donated" to her? Seems like a lot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3954248&forum_id=2#35877851) |
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Date: April 19th, 2018 9:13 PM Author: effete alcoholic goyim genital piercing Here's another lulzy part of our post-fuck conversation:
At some point in the conversation she tells me that I should be proud of "leaving [your]ethnic mark on me" after I asked her why she never fucked any Korean guys before she met me.
I literally laughed out loud IRL. Can't make this shit up. |
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Date: April 20th, 2018 3:46 PM Author: Laughsome marketing idea Actually, you can make it up.
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South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience. Please help by spinning off or relocating any relevant information, and removing excessive detail that may be against Wikipedia's inclusion policy. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Conscription 1780 caricature of a press gang 1780 caricature of a press gang Related concepts Alternative civilian serviceCivil conscriptionConscientious objectorConscription crisisDraft evasionImpressmentMilitary serviceNational serviceWar resister By historical country Ottoman EmpireRussian EmpireSoviet Union By modern country AustraliaAzerbaijanBermudaBrazilCanadaChinaCongo-Kinshasa (child soldiers)CubaCyprus (reduction)DenmarkEgyptEritreaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceIsraelIranNorth KoreaSouth KoreaLatviaLithuaniathe NetherlandsNew ZealandNorwayMexicoMonacothe PhilippinesRussiaSerbiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUkraineVietnam By geographical area Ireland vte 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.[3]
South Korean soldiers in training Establishment The basis for military conscription in South Korea is the Constitution of the Republic of Korea, which was promulgated on 17 July 1948. The constitution states in Article 39, "All citizens shall have the duty of national defense under the conditions as prescribed by Act."[4][5]
In addition, the conscription is defined and acted by the "Military Service Act" (๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ).[6][7] According to the "Military Service Act" Article 3, "Every male the Republic of Korea shall faithfully perform mandatory military service, as prescribed by the Constitution of the Republic of Korea and this Act. A female may perform only active service or reserve service through volunteering" and "Except as provided in this Act, no special case concerning mandatory military service shall be prescribed". Only males being drafted was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Korea, which declared in 2006 that it is the right of government to decide whoever is subject of the conscription, and hence there is no constitutional error of government decisions.[8] Conscription is managed by the Military Manpower Administration, which was created in 1948.[9]
Enlistment and impairment-disability evaluation By law, when a South Korean man turns 18 years old, he is enlisted for "first citizen service," meaning he is liable for military duty, but is not yet required to serve.[10][11] When he turns 19 years old (or, in some instances, 20 years old), he is required to undergo an Impairment & Disability evaluation to determine whether he is suitable for military service. The table below shows the evaluation's possible grades and their outcomes, according to the Military Service Act.[12] Men must enlist by the time they turn 28.[13]
Grade Description Outcome 1, 2, 3 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is healthy enough to perform actively in army." "To be enlisted for active duty service, supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 4 "Those whose physical and psychological constitution is not so healthy for active training but capable of doing supplemental service for civilians as replacements (This is a common grade for people with minor disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for supplemental service or the second citizen service, based on their qualifications, such as educational background and age." 5 "Those incapable of entering active or supplemental service, but capable of entering the second citizen service (This is a common grade for people with disabilities)."
"To be enlisted for the second citizen service." 6 "Those incapable of performing military service due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence (This is a common grade for people with severe disabilities)."
"To be exempted from military service." 7 "Those unable to be graded...due to any disease or mental or physical incompetence." "To undergo a follow-up physical examination" within two years. Term of South Korea military service Areas Notation of military service relevant regulation Commonly used terms Meaning English Korean English Korean Conscription examination Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ง๋ณ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ Conscription Examination Military Service Judgment Examination Physical Examination(PE) ์ง๋ณ๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ(์ ๊ฒ) Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ์ Physical Grade ์ ์ฒด๋ฑ๊ธ Grade I Grade II Grade III Grade IV Grade V Grade VI Grade VII 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ Grade 1 Grade 2 Grade 3 Grade 4 Grade 5 Grade 6 Grade 7 1๊ธ 2๊ธ 3๊ธ 4๊ธ 5๊ธ 6๊ธ 7๊ธ - ๊ฐ์ข ์ 1์์ข ์ 2์์ข ์ 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Grade A Grade B-1 Grade B-2 Grade B-3 Grade C Grade D Grade E ๊ฐ์ข 1์์ข 2์์ข 3์์ข ๋ณ์ข ์ ์ข ๋ฌด์ข Physical grades names from Before 1984 - Disposition for military service - Type of service Preliminary Military Service First militia Service First Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Preliminary Military Service 1st Citizen Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ ์ 1๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Active Service ํ์ญ Active ํ์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Supplementary Service Supplemental Service Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Wartime labor service Second militia Service Second Citizen Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ ์ 2๊ตญ๋ฏผ์ญ Exemption from Military Service in Ordinary time Exemption from Ordinary time ํ์๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ํ์๋ฉด์ Exemption from Military service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Exemption from All Military Service All exemption ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์์ ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ญ์ ์ Exemption from All Military Service by Criminal record All exemption from Criminal record ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ์ ์ํ ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ๋ณ์ญ์์ ๋ฉด์ ์ ๊ณผ๋ก ์์ ๋ฉด์ In the case of being sentenced to more than 6 years in prison under the ROK Military service act, it was Removal from Military service registration.[14] Disposition for subject to active duty, service, etc. Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ Active duty Subject to Enlist Subject to Conscription Subject to Draft ํ์ญ๋์ ํ์ญ์ ์๋์ ์ง๋ณ๋์ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Subject to Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Disposition for subject to supplementary service callup, service, etc. Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Called for Defense ๋ฐฉ์์์ง๋์ Defense Call-up(Defense soldier call-up) is classified as a supplementary service from 1969 to 1994. It was in the form of commuting from home to Military unit(or Police station, Police box, Conscription part of Town office). - ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Defense Soldier ๋ฐฉ์๋ณ Called for Public Interest Service ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Public Service ๊ณต์ต๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ ์์ง๋์ Public interest service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ๊ณต์ต๊ทผ๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Certificate of Military Registration Certificate of Military Registration data notation[15][16] English Korean Name Hong Gil-dong ํ ๊ธธ๋ Kim Han-guk ๊น ํ๊ตญ Birth date 12 Mar. 1979 790312 28 Mar. 2001 2001. 3.28 Physical grade Grade I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7๊ธ Draft Physical Examination Omitted ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์๋ต Disposition for military service Preliminary Military Service ๋ณ์ญ์ค๋น์ญ Subject to Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Active Service ํ์ญ Enlisted in Active Service ํ์ญ๋ณ์ ์๋์ Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ Called for Full-Time Reserve Service ์๊ทผ์๋น์ญ์์ง๋์ Supplementary Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Called for Social Service ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Alternative Service ๋์ฒด์ญ Called for alternative service ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์์์ง๋์ Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Subject to Follow-up Physical Examination ์ฌ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ๋์ Wartime Labor Service ์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ Exemption from Military Service ๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ (6๋ ์ด์์ํ) Reason of disposition An only son ๋ ์ Wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ (Family member) wounded in action or injured in the line of duty (๊ฐ์กฑ)์ ·๊ณต์ Difficulties in Earning a Livelihood ์๊ณ์ ์ง๊ณค๋ Not Completing Middle School ์คํ๊ต ์คํด์ดํ Long-term Waiting ์ฅ๊ธฐ๋๊ธฐ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ(์ด๋ฏผ) Acquisition of the Permanent Residence Right ์์ฃผ๊ถ์ทจ๋ Loss of nationality ๊ตญ์ ์์ค Thirty-one years of age or older 31์ธ์ด์ Thirty-six years of age or older 36์ธ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for one year or longer 7๊ธ1๋ ์ด์ Remaining in Physical Grade VII for two year or longer 7๊ธ2๋ ์ด์ Naturalization ๊ทํ Multiracial child ํผํ์ Serving a sentence ์ํ Child born out of wedlock ํผ์ธ์ธ ์ถ์์ Excluded from the Public ์ ์ธ Immigrated from the North of the Military Demarcation Line ๊ตฐ์ฌ๋ถ๊ณ์ ์ด๋ถ์ง์ญ์์ ์ด์ฃผ Boot camp Army Recruit Training Center ์ก๊ตฐ ํ๋ จ์ OO Replacement Center OO ๋ณด์ถฉ๋ OO Division OO ์ฌ๋จ Draft examination Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Studying Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Seafarer) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Residing Abroad) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (Emigration) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Draft Physical Examination (In Prison) ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌ๊ฐ) Evasion of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ ๊ธฐํผ Enlist of active Postponement of Conscription (Student) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Conscription (Studying Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Conscription (Residing Abroad) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Emigration) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Conscription (Training in Research Institute) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription (Outstanding Athlete) ์ ์์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Conscription Date ์ ์์ผ์ ์ฐ๊ธฐ Homecoming after Conscription ์ ์ํ ๊ท๊ฐ Subject to Notice of Re-Conscription ์ฌ์ ์ํต์ง๋์ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ Employed Abroad ๊ตญ์ธ์ทจ์ Residing in an Unreclaimed Area ๋ฏธ์๋ณต์ง๊ตฌ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ Application for Military Service ๊ตฐ ์ง์ Evasion of Conscription ์ ์๊ธฐํผ Missing ํ๋ฐฉ๋ถ๋ช (Medical/Judicial/Religious) Officer/Cadet Officer (์๋ฌด/๋ฒ๋ฌด/๊ตฐ์ข )์ฅ๊ต/์ฌ๊ดํ๋ณด์ Basic Branch Officer ๊ธฐ๋ณธ๋ณ๊ณผ์ฅ๊ต Noncommissioned Cadet Officer ๋ถ์ฌ๊ด ํ๋ณด์ Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ Removed from OO OO ์ ์ Call of supplementary service, etc. Postponement of Call (Student) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฌํ์) Postponement of Call (Studying Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ํ) Postponement of Call (Seafarer) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ ์) Postponement of Call (Residing Abroad) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Emigration) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ) Postponement of Call (Training in Research Institute) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์) Postponement of Call (Outstanding Athlete) ์์ง์ฐ๊ธฐ(์ฐ์์ฐ์) Postponement of Call Date ์์ง์ผ์์ฐ๊ธฐ Exemption from Call ์์ง๋ฉด์ Evasion from Call ์์ง๊ธฐํผ Enlistment in OO (์ฐ์ ์์๋ฑ)ํธ์ Cancellation of Enlistment in OO OO ํธ์ ์ทจ์ Advance Service ์ ๋ณต๋ฌด Social Service Personnel ์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์ International Cooperation Service Personnel ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ๋ด์ฌ์์ Art and Sports Personnel ์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ Expert Research Personnel ์ ๋ฌธ์ฐ๊ตฌ์์ Industrial Technical Personnel ์ฐ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅ์์ International Cooperative Doctor ๊ตญ์ ํ๋ ฅ์์ฌ Public-Service Advocate ๊ณต์ต๋ฒ๋ฌด๊ด Public Health Doctor ๊ณต์ค๋ณด๊ฑด์์ฌ Doctor Exclusively in Charge of Draft Physical Examination ๋ณ์ญํ์ ๊ฒ์ฌ์ ๋ด์์ฌ Onboard Ship Reserve Service ์น์ ๊ทผ๋ฌด์๋น์ญ Alternative Service Personnel ๋์ฒด๋ณต๋ฌด์์ Others Ban on foreign travel (a person who has stayed in the country for one year or longer) ์ถ๊ตญ๊ธ์ง(1๋ ์ด์ ๊ตญ๋ด์ฒด์ฌ) Removal of the ban on foreign travel (others) Jehovah's Witnesses ์ฌํธ์์ ์ฆ์ธ Departure before age 24 24์ธ์ด์ ์ถ๊ตญ Period of Mandatory Service ์๋ฌด๋ณต๋ฌด๊ธฐ๊ฐ Exclusion from the Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด ์ ์ธ๊ธฐ๊ฐ Short-term overseas travel ๋จ๊ธฐ์ฌํ Illegal stay in a foreign country ๊ตญ์ธ๋ถ๋ฒ์ฒด์ฌ Violation of duty to obtain permission for overseas travel ๊ตญ์ธ์ฌํํ๊ฐ์๋ฌด์๋ฐ Forces Army ์ก๊ตฐ Navy ํด๊ตฐ Air Force ๊ณต๊ตฐ Marine, Subordinate to ROK Navy ํด๋ณ๋ Expiration date Indefinite ๋ฌด๊ธฐํ 6 Months 6์ Type of service Reserve Service ์๋น์ญ Recruit Service ๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ Exemption from the Service ๋ฉด์ญ Retirement from the Service ํด์ญ Removal from Military Register ๋ณ์ ์ ์ Discharge Discharge from Military Service ์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service by Application ์์ ์ํ ์ ์ญ Forced Discharge from Military Service ์์ ์ํ์ง ์๋ํ ์ ์ญ Home on Leave from Military Service ๊ทํด์ ์ญ Discharge from Military Service as Woman ์ฌ๊ตฐ์ ์ญ Completion of Service ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ Completion of Service(Release from Call) ๋ณต๋ฌด๋ง๋ฃ(์์งํด์ ) Completion of Military Service ๋ง๊ธฐ Age Limit ์ฐ๋ น์ ๋ Disease ์๋ณ Domestic Reason ๊ฐ์ฌ์ฌ์ (์๊ฐ์ฌ) Difficulties in Maintaining Household ์๊ณ๊ณค๋ An only son ๋ ์ wounded in action or injured in the line of duty ์ ·๊ณต์ Emigration ๊ตญ์ธ์ด์ฃผ Disqualification ์ ๋ถ์์ค Exclusion to the Public ์ ์ธ Secession from Military Service ๊ตฐ๋ณต๋ฌด์ดํ(์ญ์ ) Removal from the Army Register ๊ตฐ ์ ์ Self-Surrender ์์์ ๊ณ National Land Construction Corps ๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ Volunteer Soldier as a Student ํ๋์์ฉ๊ตฐ Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ Enforcement Decree of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ์ํ๋ น Detailed Enforcement Regulation of Military Service Act ๋ณ์ญ๋ฒ ์ํ๊ท์น Combatant police, etc. Combatant Police Officer ์ ํฌ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Auxiliary Police Officer ์๋ฌด๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Obligatory Fireman ์๋ฌด์๋ฐฉ Coast Guard ํด์๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ Correctional Guard ๊ฒฝ๋น๊ต๋ Military service age The age standard is from January 1 to December 31 of the year of age.
โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service โ : Age group of Mandatory Military service in Wartime Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service Note 17 or younger Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration(Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment possible. - Assignment the Preliminary Military Service. - Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service.Note 1
1.Age group subject to Civil Defense Corps under the Framework Act on Civil Defense from the age of 20[17] 2.Subject to a return order from the chief of staff of each military if he desertied while serving on the basis of active duty soldiers. 3.Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers in the Age group of Exemption from Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc.(38 to 40 years old, 38 to 45 years old in Wartime) can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a wartime basis.[18] 19 to 35 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up(Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination.(Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service(Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 36 to 37 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime(Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 Reserve soldiers and Completed their service Supplementary soldiers can be assigned to the Reserve Force according to the Reserve Forces Act on a Wartime basis. 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Expanded 50 years of age for the Wartime Civil Defense Corps Note 1: Some disabled person (mild disabled person). If the disability status of a disabled person changes at the age of 19, or if a reason for the return of the disabled registration card occurs, a Conscription Examination shall be performed. Note 2:
Republic of Korea Armed Forces soldier (Byeong) ranks English Korean Army Navy Air Force Marine Corps Sergeant Petty Officer Second Class Staff Sergeant Sergeant ๋ณ์ฅ Corporal Petty Officer Third Class Senior Airman Corporal ์๋ฑ๋ณ Private First Class Seaman Airman First Class Lance Corporal ์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ Private Second Class Seaman Apprentice Airman Private Second Class ์ด๋ฑ๋ณ
Note 3: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank from Military Personnel Management Act.[19]
History of military service age 1971 to 1984 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger - None. - 18 to 19 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. 20 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call)Note 1 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 2 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote 2 Note 1: According to Article 7 of the Military Service Act Addenda in 1971, Military Service Act Violators(Conscription examination or Enlist refusers/dodgers) as of the enforcement year(1971) are obligated to Conscription examination and enlist.[20] Note 2: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1984 to 1993 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. No, But Possible the Voluntary enlist. 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime not enlisted from 1st Citizen Service 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.Those who are not Active (Serving), Reserve, or Supplementary Service are the 1st Citizen service. 3.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to Reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, All Military Service Obligators (Including those Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc.) are no Conscription examination, Enlist, Supplementary Service Call-up (Exemption from Call) 2.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty. 1.Same as above. 2.The 1st Citizen service that has not been Conscription examination and those Subject to Active Enlist (Subject to draft) who have not been notified of Active draft are transferred to Supplementary service. 36 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examantion and Enlist. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, 2nd Citizen Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. 1994 to 2010 Age Mandatory military service Duty of conscription examination and enlist, etc. Type of service 17 or younger a 17-year-old person (17-year-old male) must report the incorporation of the 1st Citizen service to the Town mayor or Village Chief. (Before February 5, 1999) Military Manpower Administration takes over the Identity registration data of persons (17-year-old male) who are enrollment to Military Service Registration (Assignment the Preliminary Military Service) in the following year from the Ministry of the Interior, and transmits them to the Local Military Manpower Office. (After February 5, 1999) 18 Subject for Mandatory Military service of Peacetime No, but voluntary enlistment is possible. Assignment the 1st Citizen Service. Persons with disabilities registered under the Disabled registration system is Wartime Labor Service or Exemption from Military Service. 19 to 30 All Military service obligators are obligated to Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up (Passed person from Conscription examination. Active duty is Enlist, Supplementary Service is Call-up) 1.According to the results of the Conscription examination. (Military Disposition. Active duty, Supplementary service, Wartime labor service or Exempted from Military service) 2.When the Mandatory service (Active service) period is completed, they are transferred to reserve service. 31 to 35 1.In the peacetime, General Military service obligators are no Conscription examination and Enlist/Call-up 2.In the peacetime, Military Service Act Violators, Oversea stayer, etc. are obligated to Conscription examination. When disposed of as a Supplementary service, there is an Obligation to convene Public service. 3.In the wartime, All Military service obligators are obligated to enlist as conscription examination and active duty.
1.Same as above. 2.Military Service Act Violators, Overseas stayer, etc. are Subject to Supplementary service, Wartime Labor Service or Exempted from Military service according to the results of the Conscription examination. 38 to 40 In any case, No duty of Conscription Examination and Enlist. Same as above. 41 to 45 1.End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime (Soldier ranks) 2.Extension of Mandatory Military service from Wartime Exemption from Service for Active Soldiers, Reserve Soldiers, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in PeacetimeNote 46 or older End of Mandatory Military service from Peacetime and Wartime. Exemption from Service for Active, Reserve, Supplementary Soldiers, Wartime Labor Service in Peacetime and WartimeNote Note: Retirement of Officers, Warrant officers, and Noncommissioned officers when they reach retirement age of rank. Determination criteria of physical grades There are seven physical grades. Grade name is I, II, III, IV, V, VI and VII. Before 1984 grades name is A, B (respectively B-I, B-II, B-III), C, D and E
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean Grade A ๊ฐ์ข Grade I 1๊ธ Grade B-I ์ 1์์ข Grade II 2๊ธ Grade B-II ์ 2์์ข Grade III 3๊ธ Grade B-III ์ 3์์ข Grade IV 4๊ธ Grade C ๋ณ์ข Grade V 5๊ธ Grade D ์ ์ข Grade VI 6๊ธ Grade E ๋ฌด์ข Grade VII 7๊ธ I, II, III and IV is Accepted, and grades V, VI and VII is Rejected.
The criteria for determining the physical grade shall be in accordance with Attached form 2 and 3 of the "Rules for examination of Conscription Physical Examination, etc.(๋ณ์ญํ์ ์ ์ฒด๊ฒ์ฌ ๋ฑ ๊ฒ์ฌ๊ท์น [ko])" Attached form 2 sets the criteria for determining height and weight. Attached form 3 is the evaluation criteria for diseases and mental and physical disabilities, which vary from year to year.
In the following criteria, diseases and mental and physical disabilities are described mainly as representative or known.
Physical grades Accepted or Rejected Standards[21] Type of military service[22] I Accepted Physical and Psychological constitution is healthy, and can serve in active duty or supplementary service. Active duty, Supplementary service, and Wartime labor service based on Qualifications (Educational background, Age, etc.)
2 3 4 5 Rejected Those incapable of entering active or supplementary service, but capable of entering the wartime labor service Wartime labor service 6 Those incapable of performing military service due to disease or mental or physical disorder Exempted from Military service 7 In the case where grades I, II, III, IV, V, VI cannot be received due to Disease or Mental and Physical disability Subject to Rephysical examination Physical grade Height (centimeters), weight (BMI) Disease or disabled I Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI20.0๏ฝ24.9 A completely healthy person without illness or physical disability Those in good condition after treatment of acute infectious diseases II Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI18.5๏ฝ19.9ใปBMI25.0๏ฝ29.9 Allergic rhinitis III Height 159๏ฝ160 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ34.9 Height 161๏ฝ203.9 cm๏ผBMI16.0๏ฝ18.4, BMI30.0๏ฝ34.9 Hepatitis B carrier Conservative treated or Operated PneumothoraxNote 1 Mental disease Minior, Mild Depression Minior, Mild Obsessive-compulsive disorder Several Developmental Disability (ADHD, Learning Disability) IV Height 146๏ฝ158 cm Height 159๏ฝ203.9 cm: Below BMI16.0 and BMI35.0 or Over Height 204 cm or Over Case of endoscopic surgery with either Early gastric cancer, Early colorectal cancer, or Carcinoid Prodrome of Skin malignant tumor(Giant acromegaly condyloma, Bowen disease), Basal cell carcinoma Mental disease Borderline intellectual functioning Mild Autism Spectrum Disorder (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) V Height 140.1๏ฝ145 cm Mental disease Schizophrenia Gender dysphoria Mild Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Disability (High-functioning Autism, Asperger Syndrome, PDD-NOS without Intellectual Disability) VI Height 140 cm or Below Malignant tumor (Cancer) Metastasized skin cancer Bone cancer HIV carrier Hansen's Disease (Leprosy) Mental disease Schizophrenia with Personality devastated Moderate, Severe and Profound Intellectual Disability Autism Spectrum Disorder with Intellectual Disability (Low-functioning autism, Childhood disintegrative disorder) VII Note 1: Surgery due to pneumothorax is Grade V in 1992. Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade According to Article 14 of the Military Service Act, grades I to IV are based on qualifications (education, age, etc.) and are subject to active service, supplementary, wartime workers, Grade V exemptions, Grade VI exemptions, and Grade VII medical examinations. The criteria for disposing of active duty or supplementary officers in grades I to IV are determined by the Military Manpower Administration's announcement (annual announcement of conscription inspection). According to the announcement, the criteria for military service are as follows.
โ : Active duty (ํ์ญ, Subject to Enlist for Active duty. Subject to Draft) โ : Supplementary service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) โ ๏ผWartime labor service (์ ์๊ทผ๋ก์ญ)[23] โ : Exempted from Military service (๋ณ์ญ๋ฉด์ ) โ : Subject to Physical Reexamination (์ฌ๊ฒ์ฌ๋์) Disposition for military service by educational background and physical grade (after 2021) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII Regardless Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination History of disposition for military service 1950s to 1969 Before the 1970s, the criteria for disposition of active duty and supplementary military service cannot be confirmed due to lack of data at the time.[24]
in 1950 to 1955 1950: It was the first year in the Republic of Korea that the Conscription was implemented. At that year, due to the limitation of 100,000 troops by the Korean military, the conscription system and Conscription Examination were suspended. However, in June of the same year, when the Korean War broke out, there was an unofficial conscription. 1952: As the Conscription system was Implemented again, Conscription Examination began again. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1956 Educational background Physical grade A B-I C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1957 The supplementary military service was abolished by the enforcement of the revised Military Service Act from August 1957.[25] Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary military service, 2nd Supplementary military service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1958 to 1960 On February 24, 1958, there were Re-examination measures after canceling the judgment on 45,000 Grade C judges in the 1950 to 1957 Conscription examination. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1961 There was a physical examination of public officials who were judged to be Grade C. In 1961, there was a physical examination of 128,422 embroidered persons who reported between June 21 and June 30, which was set as the period for reporting embroidery of those who failed to serve in the military. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1962 Those born on or after January 1, 1930, who have been punished for active service under the Military Service Act enacted before October 1, 1962, and who have not joined the army, will be transferred to the 1st supplementary role and will be supplemented. (Except for those who joined the National Land Construction Team(๊ตญํ ๊ฑด์ค๋จ [ko]) in 1961.) Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III B-IV B-V C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty) (After Oct, 1st 1962, Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination 1963 to 1969 Among those who were examined for conscription in 1962, those who were judged to be Grade B4 and B5 were transferred to Grade C and converted to 2nd Citizen service. Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E Regardless Accepted (Active duty, 1st Supplementary service, 2nd Supplementary service) 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination After 1970s 1970 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1971 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1972 Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less Active duty Supplementary service 1973 Middle school Graduated or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1974 to 1976 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty Grade B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated or more, High school Dropout or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated or more, Middle school Dropout or less Grade A: Active duty Grade B-I, B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Graduated Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Elementary school Graduated Elementary school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1977 to 1979 College attending or more Grade A, B-I, B-II, B-III: Active duty High school Graduated or less Grade A, B-I: Active duty Grade B-II, B-III: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less: 2nd Citizen service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1980 to 1983 College attending or more ใGrade A, B-I, B-II: Active duty ใGrade B-III: Supplementary service High school Graduated or less ใGrade A: Active duty ใGrade B-I, II, III: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade A B-I B-II B-III C D E College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1984 In 1984, Change of Physical Grade Name.
Before 1984 After 1984 Name Korean Name Korean A ๊ฐ์ข I 1๊ธ B-I ์ 1์์ข II 2๊ธ B-II ์ 2์์ข III 3๊ธ B-III ์ 3์์ข IV 4๊ธ C ๋ณ์ข V 5๊ธ D ์ ์ข VI 6๊ธ E ๋ฌด์ข VII 7๊ธ College attending or more ใGrade I, II, III: Active duty ใGrade IV: Supplementary service High school Graduated ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1985 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1986 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1987 High school Graduated or more ใGrade I, II: Active duty ใGrade III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout or less ใGrade I: Active duty ใGrade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1988 to 1991 1988: Skipped Conscription Examination of Elementary school Graduated or less 1989: Those aged 25 or older among those graduating from High school will be converted to Supplementary service. June 1, 1991: High school graduates who are 162 centimeters or less, high school graduates and those who are above university students, and who are Grade II (and III, IV) due to myopia of ophthalmology, will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1990) November 15, 1991: Those who graduated from high school and a Physical grade II will be converted to Supplementary service. (A person who was Conscription examined from 1991) January 1, 1992: Middle school Dropout or less is Supplementary service. (Exemption from Call of Bangwi) Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1992 Middle school Graduated or more, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty. But, on October 30 of the same year, it was changed as follows: High school Graduated or more, Physical grade III, IV: converted to Supplementary service High school Dropout or less, Physical grade I, II, III, IV: converted to Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1993 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout and Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1994 High school Graduated or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty High school Dropout Grade I: Active duty Grade II, III, IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated with Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Active duty Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1995 to 1996 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Those who graduated from middle school and a Physical grade I, II, III, IV will be converted to Supplementary service from 1996 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1997 High school Dropout or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout with Physical grade III: converted to Supplementary service from June 2, 1997 High school Dropout with Physical grade II: converted to Supplementary service from January 1, 1998 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 1998 to 2003 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Graduated, High school Dropout Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service 1999 to 2011 Skipped Conscription Examination with Transferred the 2nd Citizen service of Middle school Dropout or less in 1999 to 2011 Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Supplementary service Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2004 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2005 College attending or more with Grade I, II, III, IV: Active duty Middle school Graduated and High school Dropout Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated Active duty Supplementary service High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2006 to 2011 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less 2nd Citizen service 2012 to 1st half of 2015 Middle school Graduated or more Grade I, II, III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service Middle school Dropout or less with Physical Grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service 2nd Citizen service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout Middle school Graduated Middle school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(in Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2014(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2014-2) 2nd half of 2015 to 2020 High school Graduated or more Grade I, II and III: Active duty Grade IV: Supplementary service High school Dropout of less with Physical grade I, II, III, IV: Supplementary service Educational background Physical grade I II III IV V VI VII College attending or more Active duty Supplementary service Wartime Labor Service Exempted from Military service Subject to Physical reexamination High school Graduated High school Dropout or less Supplementary service External links
(Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2016(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2016-3) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2017(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2017-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2018(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2018-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2019(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2019-1) (Korean) Public Notice of Draft examination in 2020(Military Manpower Administration Public Notice No. 2020-1) Service types and length Grade 1, 2, 3 and 4: those are suitable for military service (ํ์ญ) The length of compulsory military service in South Korea varies based on military branch.[26] Active duty soldiers serve 1 year 6 months in the Army or Marine Corps, 1 year 8 months in the Navy, or 1 year 9 months in the Air Force.[27] After conscripts finish their military service, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster and are obligated to attend 3 days of annual military training for 6 years[citation needed] (5 years from 2021).
Non-active duty personnel, or "supplemental service" personnel serve for various lengths: 1 year 9 months for social work personnel (better known as public service workers - personnel ordered to do public service work at places that require auxiliary workers such as local community centers like city halls, government agencies, and public facilities like subway stations);[28] 2 years 10 months for arts and sports personnel or industrial technical personnel; and 3 years for public health doctors, lawyers, veterinarians, or expert researchers.[29]
In 2010, there was growing public pressure to either shorten the length of conscription or to switch to voluntary military service, and calls from experts for a gradual phasing out of conscription rather than complete abolition.[30] However, in December 2010, after taking into consideration of the 2010 ROKS Cheonan sinking and Bombardment of Yeonpyeong incidents, the South Korean government said it would not reduce service periods.[31]
Grade 4: those are unsuitable for military service (๋ณด์ถฉ์ญ) Art and sports personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์) Artists and players who have won government accredited competitions are allowed to work as 'Art and Sports Personnel (์์ ์ฒด์ก์์ [ko])'. After a month of military training, Art and Sports Service agents work through their specialties to finish their military services; e.g. in professional sports teams, art galleries, museums or orchestra bands. Unlike other service agents who are working at factories, farms, universities, institutes or nursing homes, Art and Sports Service agents are allowed to work abroad.[citation needed]
Former president Park Chung-hee introduced exemptions for athletes in 1973 in an effort to win more medals for the country; some historians believe this also served as a distraction against the government's unpopularity.[32] After winning a gold medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics, wrestler Yang Jung-mo was granted the first exemption. In the 1980s, president Chun Doo-hwan promised exemptions to any athlete who won a medal of any kind at either the 1986 Asian Games or the 1988 Summer Olympics.[32]
When South Korea co-hosted the FIFA World Cup in 2002, their national football team was guaranteed an exemption if they reached the round of 16; the same promise was made to the national baseball team in 2006 if the team reached semifinals in the World Baseball Classic. Public outrage ensued, and similar exemptions have been rarely granted since.[32]
Current conscription regulations stipulate that athletes who win medals in the Olympic Games or gold medals in the Asian Games are granted exemptions from military service and are placed in Grade 4.[33] They are required to do four weeks of basic military training and engage in sports field for 42 months. After that, they are automatically placed on the reserve roster, and are obligated to attend a few days of annual military training for six years. In practice, after athletes finish their four weeks of basic military training, they are able to continue their own sports career during the 34 months of duty.[34]
The policy has resulted in coaches being accused of selecting players desperate to avoid military service instead of choosing the best athletes. Parents encourage their children to pursue sports in hopes of them receiving an exemption.[32]
Notable athletes who have been granted exemptions from military service are the bronze medal-winning men's football team at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[35][36] 2008 Olympic gold medalist badminton player Lee Yong-dae,[37] swimmer Park Tae-hwan,[38][39] 2014 Asian Games gold medalist tennis player Chung Hyeon,[40] 2018 Asian Games gold medalist footballer Son Heung-min, and 2018 Asian Games gold medalist baseball player Lee Jung-hoo.
Esports players were not exempt from conscription until 2023, when esports became a regular event at the 2022 Asian Games.[41][failed verification] Because esports had become a medal event in these games, it became possible for players to be exempt from conscription, so long as they won a gold medal in the games. The gold medal-winning roster of the country's national esports team became the first players to be granted the exemption.[42]
A total of 220 exemptions were granted from 2008 to 2018.[32]
Exemptions are also granted to classical musicians and ballet performers who win first place in stipulated international-level competitions. A two-year extension for notable K-pop artists (from a law that was passed in December 2020) could also be given by government for their career, the age for joining military is 30 (which previously was 28). Some resources and media outlets claim that the primary reason for this amendment was singer-songwriter Jin, who, at the time, was about to turn 28.[43][44] As his group BTS has had a huge impact (especially in the music industry) worldwide and contributed greatly to the spread of Korean culture and the Hallyu Wave, exemptions for them were in talks for a few years.[45][46] Despite this, BTS' record label, Big Hit Music, announced on October 17, 2022, that Jin withdrew his enlistment deferral request and will be the first in the group to enter into mandatory military service, with other members of BTS to be enlisted on a later date.[47]
Conscientious objection The right to conscientious objection was not recognized in South Korea until recently. Over 400 men were typically imprisoned at any given time for refusing military service for political or religious reasons in the years before right to conscientious objection was established.[48]
On 28 June 2018, the South Korean Constitutional Court ruled the Military Service Act unconstitutional and ordered the government to accommodate civilian forms of military service for conscientious objectors.[49] Later that year on 1 November 2018, the South Korean Supreme Court legalized conscientious objection as a basis for rejecting compulsory military service.[50]
Salary and benefits Salary per month in 2017[51]
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ163,000 โฉ176,400 โฉ195,500 โฉ216,000 Salary per month in 2018
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2019
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ306,100 โฉ331,300 โฉ366,200 โฉ405,700 Salary per month in 2020
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ408,100 โฉ441,700 โฉ488,200 โฉ540,900 Salary per month in 2021
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ459,100 โฉ496,900 โฉ549,200 โฉ608,500 Salary per month in 2022
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ510,100 โฉ552,100 โฉ610,200 โฉ676,100 Salary per month in 2023
Private (์ด๋ฑ๋ณ) Private first class (์ผ๋ฑ๋ณ) Corporal (์๋ฑ๋ณ) Sergeant (๋ณ์ฅ) โฉ600,000 โฉ680,000 โฉ800,000 โฉ1,000,000 Equipment The Ministry of National Defense has revealed that it failed to provide sneakers to 7,411 recruits who joined the military from 22 May to 4 June 2012, after the budget was insufficient for need. The Defense ministry originally projected the cost of each pair of sneakers to be 11,000 KRW. However, the actual cost turned out to be 15,000 KRW.[52]
The office of National Assembly member Kim Kwang-jin of Democratic United Party revealed that cadets in Korea Military Academy were provided with sneakers worth 60,000 KRW and tennis shoes. Cadets in Korea Army Academy at Yeongcheon were provided with sneakers worth 64,250 KRW, in addition to running shoes and soccer shoes.[53]
Dual citizens For dual citizens, or those with multiple citizenships, male South Koreans must choose their citizenship by the time they turn 18, before 31 March of that year. If these males choose to revoke their South Korean citizenship, they will not be required to complete their mandatory military service. However, if they fail to choose their citizenship by their 18th year, they will be subjected to fulfill their mandatory military service[54] and, for those who wish to maintain their multiple citizenships, an oath not to exert foreign nationality within two years since finishing their military service.[55] If males choose to renounce their citizenship by their 18th year, they are ineligible to gain a South Korean work visa (F series) until after they turn 40 years of age. It may still be possible to gain an E series visa.
There have been cases of Koreans abroad (e.g. Korean Americans) being forced to serve in the military, as they were unaware they were actually citizens of South Korea. This happens when these people visit South Korea. One cause of this is the inadvertent inclusion on the family register.[56]
Racial minorities In 2011, the government dropped race-based requirements for mix-raced Korean nationals conscripted into the armed forces.[57] However, there currently is no law allowing non-ethnic Korean citizens conscription into the armed forces. All naturalized citizens and citizens not of partial Korean ethnicity have a choice of whether to enlist or not.
Controversies Violation of Forced Labour Convention The Forced Labour Convention explicitly excludes "any work or service exacted in virtue of compulsory military service laws for work of a purely military character" from its scope.[58] However, ILO defines conscription of non-military purpose as forced labour.[59]
According to ILO, South Korean conscription violates the forced labour convention, because South Korea enrolls men with disabilities for non-military purposes. A majority (+90%) of the "Reserve - class 4 -" group work as "social service agents (์ฌํ๋ณต๋ฌด์์)", and earn far less than the minimum legal wage at various fields, including government offices, subway stations, tax offices, post offices, and sanitaria.[58]
In April 2021, South Korea ratified the Forced Labour Convention, but conscription remained in place. South Korea changed its conscription law by providing "right to decide to be enrolled" to "reserve - class 4 -. those with minor disabilities". South Korea claims that this change makes the conscription legitimate because "reserve - class 4" now have the right to decide their methods of conscription between soldiers with active duty and "social service agents".[58] However, ILO continues to argue that enforcing "reserve - class 4-" to work as a "social service agent" is a violation of the Forced Labour Convention.[58]
Hazing Main article: Hazing in the Republic of Korea Armed Forces Lowering standards of acceptance In recent years, the South Korean government is preparing a policy to lower conscription standards for mental and physical conditions that would previously be considered exempt, as it fears that the nation's low birthrate will lead to fewer conscripts. In 2021, South Korea had the lowest fertility rate in the world, a title also bestowed on the country the previous year.[60] However, experts warn that such actions will lead to wider problems already present in the military, by recruiting personnel who would not be able to adapt to the closed military.[61]
Draft evasion In general, the South Korean public tends to be intolerant towards men who attempt to evade mandatory military service or receive special treatment, especially if they are exploiting family wealth or political connections. Draft evasion is a punishable crime, but many entertainers, athletes, politicians and their children are known to have fabricated medical or other reasons to seek exemption from military service.[62][63] According to a 2017 report by the Military Manpower Administration, the most common evasion tactic was extreme weight loss or gain (37%), followed by fabrication of mental illness (23.7%), and deliberate full-body tattoos (20.3%).[64] Studying abroad or migrating overseas to obtain foreign citizenship are considered the preferred option for sons in wealthy families, while nearly a hundred high-ranking politicians including sitting members of the National Assembly have managed to arrange unexplained exemptions for their sons.[65] These cases of draft evasion are to be distinguished from conscientious objection on political or religious grounds.
Yoo Seung-jun (Steve Yoo) In 2002, just before South Korean pop singer Yoo Seung-jun was due to be drafted for his military service, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He was born in Seoul and migrated to the United States at the age of 13. The South Korean government considered it an act of desertion and deported him, banning him from entering the country permanently.[66] In February 2017, Yoo lost his second and final appeal regarding his entry ban which prohibited him from entry and any further appeals.[67] However, citing procedural irregularities, the South Korean Supreme Court re-opened the case in July 2019 and sent the case to the Seoul High Court, ordering them to retry Yoo's case.[68] In November 2019, the appeals court reversed the ban, paving the way for Yoo to return to the country, pending approval of a visa.[69] One of Yoo's visa requests was denied in July 2020 by the Los Angeles Consulate, citing Korean law that allows discretion in denying visas to applicants that "posed a threat to public interest."[70]
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