K-netizens react to the male idol member who faked having an IQ of 60 to evade military service

On Wednesday, January 17, the Seoul Northern District Court disclosed its choice to hand a 1 year prison term, suspended for two years, to a 32-year-old member of a boy group. 

According to The Korea Herald, the person was condemned of claiming to have a psychological impairment to evade energetic military service, a straight infraction of South Korea’s Military Service Act, which mandates all qualified males to offer in the military for a minimum of 18 months.

The court additionally gotten the offender to total 80 hours of neighborhood service as component of the put on hold sentence. The implicated had actually undertaken checkups by the Military Manpower Administration in 2011 and 2017, passing both and obtaining authorization for active service.

However, in an initiative to stay clear of military service, the offender deliberately showed mental signs and symptoms and given inaccurate solutions throughout examinations. This …