Being overweight won’t help you dodge bullets, but it might help you escape mandatory military service in South Korea — unless you get caught. A Korean court recently served up a prison sentence to a ...

A South Korean man was given a one-year suspended sentence for evading military service. He was found guilty of intentionally putting on weight to get out of a combat role. This is just the latest ...

A South Korean man who ate to the point of obesity in an attempt to dodge the army has avoided prison after he pledged to take up his mandatory military service. The man, who was not publicly ...