Serving South Korea may be a tad duller than stardom for Jin
Absent extenuating circumstances, all South Korean men must serve at least 18 months in the armed forces, starting before they turn 28. Mr Kim’s megastardom is arguably such a circumstance. It persuaded South Korea’s parliament to pass a law in 2020 to allow those who “excel in popular culture and art” to postpone their service.
Military service also tends to be excruciatingly boring. Fighting across the demilitarised zone that separates North and South Korea is extremely rare, and suicide by far the biggest cause of death among Korean conscripts. The only thing 28-year-old Han Seung-joo recalls battling at his station close to thein Yeoncheon, where Mr Kim will do his training, was the weather. “There was a lot of snow shovelling,” he recalled. “We would shovel the snow and look back and there would be more snow.
Those medically unfit to serve also tend to be assigned humdrum labour. Lee Sang-yup, who has scoliosis, was posted to a primary school to help serve lunch. “It always felt like a waste of time,” he recalls, “I would do everything to get out of it.”
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