I know that all Korean males have to go to the military but I have legit never heard of this mf going into the military, was he able to skip it because he's the biggest star in LoL or something or is it just delayed
Can't faker delay his longer because he dropped out of highschool? Remember reading that he wont have to do millitary service, but other public sector based service. OR if he can win the gold medal at Asian games, as esports was just added. SK count that as service to the country if you win. It happened with Son Heung-Min being exempt because he won gold at Asian games.
I could be 100% wrong, so please correct me if I am.
With League being a part of the Asian games, Korea's top talent are gonna be climbing over each other to guarantee they don't have to go the the military, team KR vs team CN looks like it would be super fun to watch
I think they got rid of the rule that high school dropouts don't do military service
We have mandatory military service here as well so my assumption and research (haven't been in army yet):
You have to serve after turning 18 and I would imagine that most serve year or two after that due to school etc and you have to serve before turning 28-30?. And Korean have to serve for about 20 months.
And for tasks its just basic military training and then you specialize to certain branch. It likely has different periods aka starting with basic stuff that is taught for everyone and then more specific and obviously during this time you do your serve in whatever branch you are in. Let it be navy or whatever.
And if you reject you are likely going to end up in jail. Also at least we have option for civil service aka 11 months doing usually government provided jobs and I would imagine South Korea having something similar but for longer due to our service only lasting 6-12 months instead of 20.
but this is just my assumption based on little research and our system