South Korea Conscription
Conscription
South Korea is one of country in
the world that has conscription. Conscription is an obligation for citizen to
follow it conscription is followed by all men with 18-35 aged who is physically
and mentally prepared to be a part of
Korean Army.
The purpose of this conscription
is to train basic military techniques until they are ready to help in case
there are threat of invansion from other countries and military forces
shortage.
In South Korea the reason why
they have conscription because the relation between South Korea with North
Korea after Korean War. Conscription take around 2,3-2,5 years in the military
camp.
Before they joined the
conscription, they have to passed the feasibility test to know the unit where
they will be placed. There are 4 grades in conscription, the first grade is the
highest grade (the Active Army). They can choose to followed the conscription
as a Police, Active Army and Public Service Army ( Like Government employee
(PNS) in Indonesia) still they have to passed the test. Especially in Public
Service Army, they can joined the conscription as a Public Service Army just to
them who are not possible to join the conscription as an Active Army. Usually
because the accident like crash or etc. Before they joined the conscription,
they will get training around 4 weeks or one month in the camp after that they
will joined the conscription.
Usually the man that will joined
the conscription will get stressed a bit because they have to far from their
family and as much as possible not to communicate with the outside world and
just focus on their training at military camp. They have to leave temporarily
their daily activity like work or school, for they who work and then joined the
conscription, the government still will pay their salary although they not come
to work and for the students who joined the conscription usually it will useful
for them in the future.
For they who didn’t joined the
conscription will get punishment 3 years in a prison but there are some way to
loose from conscription. They have to loose the nationality but not all of them
can do it. Usually someone who born and life in a board have two nationality,
they who still with their Korean nationality have to comeback to Korea to
joined the conscription , but if they choose to not joined the conscription
they have to loose their nationality.
But, is not the end. Usually
someone who choose to loose their Korean nationality will get difficulties in
the future if he want to comeback to Korea.
First,
almost impossible to him to get his Korean nationality back.
The
second, if he want to start a career in Korea its a bit hard, he will get
cultural pressure. Usually the citizen will look down to someone that didn’t
join the conscription, because in South Korea , a men is not considered as a
men if not joined the conscription.
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