Talk:Conscription in South Korea

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Steve Yoo Heading edit

Why does this article call Yoo Seung-joon by his American name? He was known throughout his career as Yoo Seung-joon. Calling him by his American name was a deliberate insult used in Korea when he refused military service. He should be known by his Korean name in this article. Kkachi (talk) 13:51, 31 December 2012 (UTC)KkachiReply

It doesn't matter what the intent behind using "Steven Yoo" was from the extreme limited perspective of the South Korean netizen community. What does he formally go by? Both variations of the name are prominently used. His Wikipedia page uses Steve Seungjun Yoo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Seungjun_Yoo) so I'd lean towards using that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.59.12.226 (talk) 07:19, 21 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

Notable enlistments Section edit

What purpose does this section serve in respect to providing information about conscription in South Korea? The section and its supporting references make up more than 60% of the article itself and does little to enhance the article. The entire section should be removed considering we're mainly talking about local stars who ranging from minor soap opera actors to short term boy band'ers who didn't willingly volunteer for military service but were drafted. It's not notable in the sense of Ed McMahon, Oliver Stone, and to some degree Elvis Presley who willingly enlisted (debatable for Elvis) and are known outside of a local venue. It's a useless list of names people don't know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.59.12.226 (talk) 07:50, 21 February 2014 (UTC)Reply

As no one has given reason to keep this section I am removing it along with associated references. --144.59.12.226 (talk) 04:41, 13 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

I don't get it either. I only see it as being of slight interest to K-pop/K-culture fans. 84.49.75.226 (talk) 17:57, 10 December 2014 (UTC)Reply
I see it was restored in June 2014 after IP 144 removed it in June. It is continuing to get bigger and distracts from the actual topic of the article. So I'm going to fork it into a separate article. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 02:03, 16 September 2015 (UTC)Reply
I have forked it to List of celebrity South Korean military conscripts. For those that love trivia, that list took up 71% of the page size. AtHomeIn神戸 (talk) 02:14, 16 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

inconsictency in statistic edit

in the paragraph about conscription it says South Korea has the third longest conscription after Israel and Singapore. Yet in the article about North Korea Korean People's Army#Conscription and terms of service it says the Conscription there is between 3 to 5 years. That's far longer, yet not mentioned in the article. --Panoramedia (talk) 13:19, 20 August 2014 (UTC)Reply

History, absence of edit

There's no history of the institution here, in particular, no notation of conscription during the Korean war, and whether it was forced or voluntary. The Northern Army forced conscription, but did the South do likewise? Was there conscription beginning in 1945? Or only after 1950? Theonemacduff (talk) 19:01, 7 September 2015 (UTC)Reply

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BTS and their Exemption edit

With BTS being the first K-pop group to be exempted from the mandatory military service, should they be mentioned as a rare exception in this article?

--Peppapig567 (talk) 07:26, 18 October 2018 (UTC)Reply

Second citizen service edit

What is the "second citizen service"? This should be explained a bit in the article. Stifle (talk) 14:41, 29 November 2019 (UTC)Reply

Military Service System in South Korea edit

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
The result of this discussion was to merge the pages. -ink&fables «talk» 17:12, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi, there is another article, Military Service System in South Korea. It has a merge tag on it to this. Thanks. scope_creepTalk 00:33, 7 October 2020 (UTC)Reply

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