A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining weight to evade military service.

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 unnamed man received a suspended prison sentence of one year after doubling his daily food consumption to avoid military service duties, per reports

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A man in South Korea has been found guilty of trying to dodge the draft by gaining an exorbitant amount of weight, The Associated Press and The Korea Herald reported. South Korea requires all “able bodied” men to serve in the country’s military for a minimum of 18 months.

A South Korean man hoping to avoid mandatory military service has been convicted after deliberately trying to gain so much weight it would make him ineligible.

A South Korean man has been sentenced to a suspended prison term for deliberately gaining weight in order to avoid mandatory military service.

A Seoul court convicted a 26-year-old South Korean man of violating the Military Service Act by intentionally gaining weight to avoid mandatory military service. Despite initially qualifying for combat duty with a Grade 2 (second-highest grade) assessment in 2017,

A tale of weight gain and military evasion unfolds in South Korea, as a man's drastic measures to sidestep service highlight the pressures of conscription.

A man in South Korea is off to jail after gaining weight to avoid being drafted into the military. The man, not named in reports, gained 44 pounds when his number came up. This placed him in a category that allowed him to do the national service required of young people in a community center rather than the army.