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A 26-year-old South Korean man gained weight to avoid mandatory military service, following a high-calorie meal plan provided by a friend. He initially passed a physical exam in 2017 but postponed his service for five years due to attendance at the university. In June 2023, he underwent another exam, where he weighed 225 pounds (BMI of 35.8), qualifying only for a non-combat role. It was determined that this was an attempt to dodge the draft, which lead to a one-year suspended sentence. Perhaps most interesting is a friend who helped him received a six-month suspended sentence.
Man Thought He Could Eat His Way Out of Military Service
South Korean man who hoped to avoid combat intentionally made himself obeseBy Arden Dier | Nov 25, 2024
A South Korean man who packed on the pounds in an effort to dodge mandatory military service will have to serve his country regardless, or face jail. The unnamed 26-year-old, who ate and ate until he was considered too obese to serve in a combat role, was convicted of trying to dodge the draft and received a one-year suspended sentence, per the BBC. He was considered fit for combat during an initial physical exam in October 2017 before successfully postponing his military service for five years as he attended university, per the Telegraph.
Due for another physical exam in June 2023, the man spent three months eating twice as much food as normal under guidance from a friend, who provided a high-calorie meal plan. That friend, found to have aided and abetted the scheme, received a six-month suspended sentence despite claiming he didn’t believe the defendant would follow through with the plan. Binge-eating had worked at least once before. In 2018, a dozen college students were classified as overweight after consuming large amounts of protein powder and juice on the day before their physical exams, the Independent reports.
In this case, the 5’5″ man weighed in at 225 pounds, for a body mass index of 35.8. Obesity is marked by a BMI of 30 or greater. He was then deemed fit only for a non-combat role. Able-bodied men in South Korea must serve the military for 18 months between the ages of 18 and 28 and those who evade military service without justifiable cause can be jailed for up to three years. The court said it handed down a “relatively lenient punishment” as the pair had no criminal record, per the Independent. The defendant also “acknowledged his wrongdoing and expressed a commitment to fulfilling his military duty,” the court said, per the Telegraph.
The South Korean military requires men aged 18-28 to serve for 18 months; avoiding service without justification can lead to up to three years in prison. The court considered the punishment lenient due to the defendant’s lack of a criminal record and his acknowledgment of wrongdoing.
Category: "Teh Stoopid"
We had a fatty in Basic that had to endure the Sgt. standing
over him in the mess hall while he tried to eat.
guy in the bunk across from me had to eat from the “health food bar” for every meal. kid lost so much weight that at the end of AIT when you get to DX uniforms , he had to exchange everything.
Shame he still failed his final PT test
Well, you know… obligatory:
Hiding a full Korean BBQ in your footlocker would be a challenge. Better than a donut though.
That would be impressive.
We had Drill Sergeants taking desserts off the plates of the “fat Boy” and giving them to the skinner ones in the Company!
“the pair had no criminal record”
I guess if you aren’t a criminal in the past, you can be a criminal now without issue. That would, I think, encourage more folks to do that. Being right on the boarder with ‘Lil Kim, I would think that draft dodging (by whatever means at hand – like a burger) would be very frowned upon.
Maybe if he’d taken the class by that broad (in more ways than one) over on the libs of tic-toc thread, he’d have been ok..
“I guess if you aren’t a criminal in the past, you can be a criminal now without issue.”
Suspended sentence is still a sentence that can be inflicted if the conditions of the suspension aren’t met…if jailing is meant to protect the public the judge probably figured these two clowns aren’t a threat to society at large and because they weren’t career criminals or violent so this method might be a way to save some taxpayer money…the punishment aspect is a different matter of course.
Also one suspects the reasoning is that he is going to serve after all, so one mistake that is being corrected isn’t a danger to society that requires incarceration…and one also suspects that his service will involve being reminded he’s a lazy, fat, shit who tried to dodge the service…so there will be punishment….
I was a skinny farm kid when I enlisted in the Marines during Vietnam. Eventually grew, put on muscle. Now at 75 I like being on the lean side. Certainly easier. Still got the aches and pains but I fit into my pants.😜
Same here, Dave, when I joined the Army in ’71. I barely made the height and weight requirements. They put me on double rations then I had a growth spurt, adding 40 lbs and 4 inches. With all of the exercise it was pure muscle. My bunk mate was 40lbs too heavy and they starved/exercised it all off of him.
Agree or disagree on a “draft”, I personally think that we should do as other countries do and require some type of military service for everyone that is physically able. A good portion of the draftees that I served with were good troops and many decided to make a career out of it since they had “found themselves a home”. YMMV
“adding 40 lbs and 4 inches”
That is one helluva growth spurt. My “growth spurt” (almost 100 lbs.) took several decades and was entirely horizontal.
I was barely 5’3″ @ 119lbs when I reported for Basic at The School of Hard Knox for Wayward Boys, timactual. When I reported to Ft Silly Me OK for Gun Bunny School, I was 5’7″@ 162lbs. I hung around 140ish for most of the years till I had them strokes. Right now Imma ’bout 160ish with furniture disease. My chest is trying to fall into my drawers.
AB Brother jokes that he was so thin (at 6’3″ was somewhere near 165) that they had to strap a mortar base to him so he would fall on the jumps.
AB Son wasn’t quite that light, but with all the ruck it didn’t matter.
Eat mo Brock-A-Lee!
Wouldn’t that be block-a-ree in Korea?
Could use fatty as a bullet barricade.
Why they weren’t successful… that’s all his Pizza Hut, too:
See? He’s got DunLop’s Disease too!
In the 70s we called the lard asses “potato boys” and they had road guard duty…I still recall our training runs through large parts of Fort Benning where the roads were not active but the road guards had to race ahead, safeguard the crossings and when the company passed race ahead of the whole company again and block the next unused intersection….they trimmed down pretty quickly…
Back on “Fort Lost-in-the-Woods” it wasn’t any different, the chubby-boys instantly got Road Guard Duty, and the Drills ragged them, I remember hearing “MOVE IT, why aren’t you there already, pork chop!!!” being yelled at them.
It came up in a MASH episode– the weren’t even original.
He was probably told how big Americans are but went about improving himself the wrong way. Gotta pay better attention.
https://youtu.be/BnP_mZAv8gE
He….Un Fat Phuc
Glad I read the comments before I posted my original idea, which would have been some variation of Fat Phuc.
Good job, Chair!
In 1968, at age 18, I failed my draft physical for being too fat, I was classified 4-F, unfit for military service.
In 1971, I got motivated and tried to enlist in the Army, the recruiter laughed and said, “Son, go lose a hundred pounds and come back and see me.
A year later I had lost a hundred pounds and went back to see him, he immediately asked to see my draft card, he said, “Son, you’re 4-F, unqualified, I’m not even supposed to waste my time talking to you!”.
He said I could try going to my Draft Board and see if they would get me another physical and maybe get reclassified 1-A.
It was 1972 and the Vietnam War was still ongoing and the office ladies at the Draft Board thought I was nuts, but I got eventually got reclassified 1-A.
Enlisted in June 1972 for Infantry, Airborne and the 101st Airborne. By December 1972 I finished Basic, Jump School and Infantry AIT.
They signed the Paris Peace Accords in January 1973, and I never got anywhere near any combat.
Seems the South Korean military has their share of shitbags as well.
I went to PI in 1992 at 5’8” and 125 pounds. I left weighing 150.
I was still a scrawny fuck and still 5’8”, but my dick was suddenly 4 feet long.
I loved PI.
The Bn’s chemical officer when I was first in made no bones about his plan to get fat and get kicked out. He was eating four MREs a day while sitting on his duff in the TOC at NTC. Sorry dud.
Yes, you read this and immediately went to the John Pinette (RIP) card.