{"id":18631,"date":"2024-11-24T11:03:16","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18631"},"modified":"2024-11-24T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T11:03:16","slug":"south-korean-man-dodged-draft-by-binge-eating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18631","title":{"rendered":"South Korean man dodged draft by binge eating"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A court in South Korea has found a man guilty of trying to avoid mandatory military service by deliberately gaining weight, local media report.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The 26-year-old began binge eating before his physical examination for the draft, a judge in the capital, Seoul, said. He was categorised as obese, allowing him to serve in a non-combat role at a government agency.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The defendant received a one-year suspended sentence. A friend who devised a special regimen that doubled his daily food intake got a six-month suspended sentence, <!-- --><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.koreaherald.com\/view.php?ud=20241124050010\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\">the Korea Herald newspaper reports<!-- --><\/a>.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">All able-bodied men in <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/topics\/cnx753jej1xt\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\">South Korea<!-- --><\/a> over the age of 18 must serve in the army for at least 18 months.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">According to the Korean Herald, the defendant was assessed as fit for combat duty during an initial physical exam.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But at the final examination last year, he weighed in at over 102kg (225 lbs, 16 stone), making him heavily obese.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The man who recommended binge dieting had denied the charge of aiding and abetting, saying he never believed his friend would through with it, the newspaper adds.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/clyve5l9j3go\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court in South Korea has found a man guilty of trying to avoid mandatory military service by deliberately gaining weight, local media report. The 26-year-old began binge eating before his physical examination for the draft, a judge in the capital, Seoul, said. He was categorised as obese, allowing him to serve in a non-combat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}