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South Korea court convicts man for dodging military draft by gaining weight
The man and his friend devised a plan for him to put on excessive weight in order to trick the conscription system.
A court in South Korea has sentenced a young man to a suspended prison term for deliberately putting on excessive weight to dodge mandatory military service. An acquaintance of the man, who had helped him devise a regimen to put on more than 20kg (44 pounds), received a six-month prison term, suspended for one year, for aiding and abetting the offence. All able-bodied men are legally bound to serve in the military for 18-21 months in South Korea, where tensions have escalated with its neighbour to the north and the two countries remain technically at war.
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