A court docket in South Korea has discovered a person responsible of attempting to keep away from necessary navy service by intentionally gaining weight, native media report.
The 26-year-old started binge consuming earlier than his bodily examination for the draft, a choose within the capital, Seoul, mentioned. He was categorised as overweight, permitting him to serve in a non-combat position at a authorities company.
The defendant obtained a one-year suspended sentence. A pal who devised a particular routine that doubled his each day meals consumption received a six-month suspended sentence, the Korea Herald newspaper studies.
All able-bodied males in South Korea over the age of 18 should serve within the military for at the very least 18 months.
In line with the Korean Herald, the defendant was assessed as match for fight obligation throughout an preliminary bodily examination.
However on the closing examination final yr, he weighed in at over 102kg (225 lbs, 16 stone), making him closely overweight.
The person who really helpful binge weight-reduction plan had denied the cost of aiding and abetting, saying he by no means believed his pal would by with it, the newspaper provides.
