Ahn, off to four months of military training

He got his doo lopped off. What a damn shame. The dude looked pimp with long hair and now he has to sport that goofy fvcking hairstyle.

Why must Korean dudes go to mandatory military service. The North ain't gonna do shlt. Only dumb Americans and paranoid Japanese think they're a threat. I'm an international F-1 student myself and gonna go through this BS in a few years. Hopefully, I'll get a permenent residency in the states to avoid going to the army.

 

Not really sure. I hope he goes to a La Liga club, but we've all been down this road before. He was suppose to go to Blackburn last year but the British denied him a work permit, he was suppose to go to Atletico Madrid towards the begining of this year during the January transfer window, but it fell through because the Japanese management company that had bought him out from Perugia when Ahn refused to go back to Italy needed Atletico to reimburse them with their investment towards Ahn, but Atletico found that maount too much so the deal fell through.

So who knows what will happen this time.

 

You obviously don't know the infamy of the South Korean military. If you knew what went on with training, then even Terminator would be reluctant to go. The sheer barbaric way they train is due to the fact it has long been known the North Koreans train their soldiers with even more barbaric ways to harden them. So this is why South Korea's army had been literally hell on earth because they had to match somewhat of the brutal way the North trained its soldiers so in case of war, the South wouldn't get the shlt kicked out of them(as they did during the Korean War).

In the South Korean military, incoming enlistees get the shlt kicked out of them almost on a daily basis by the higher ups, they train using live ammo on enlisted soldiers(such as doing that thing where you have to crawl underneath barbed wires, they shoot live ammo just inches above soldiers heads and among other training procedurals), endure more beatings if you make even the slightest mistake, learn all kinds of bad habits, get group beatings not because you messed up but just to harden a soldier.

Almost every year, there are numerous cases where soldiers die while serving in the military through "mysterious" circumstances. Meaning, the physically weaker soldiers who get severely beaten often times just keel over and die and the military ends up covering it up by releasing false statements about an irregularity on his health. There has been countless amounts of families who tried suing the government but have lost every single time.

So, to put it simply, yes, I am scared shltless to go back to Korea for mandatory military service.

There have been a few cases where people in Korea have gone as far as gaining excessive weight, hurting themselves by breaking something, asking their family doctors to falsify their health reports just to avoid going to the military. All of these cases have been caught and been arrested. Scary shlt.

But even if Ahn and the rest of the World Cup squad weren't exempted from military service, they would have been treated differently as is the case with celebrities and public figures. So to normal folks like myself and millions of others, we try to do what we can to avoid going.

 

My cousin back in Korea was in "Gae Byung Dae" AKA Hae Byung Dae and told me all of thls shlt. I don't think he was exaggerating. He also suffered a fractured disc after a higher ranking officer gave him a beating when he was serving. He told me so many horrifying stories about bar room brawls, going to room salons, getting beaten up and beating up others. I knew he wasn't exaggerating because the reason he told me all of those stories was to convince me to apply for perminent residency as soon as I can. He didn't wish any of it for me or my older brother.

And the brutal military training in Korea isn't a reflection of Korea's image at all. Korea is an economically prosperous nationt hat just happens to require a brutal training regimen to match up with the way the military in the North trains. It is in no way a reflection of a country's status at all.

By thinking it IS a reflection is condescending.

And you haven't heard or known anything about what I wrote? Were you living under a rock? A few Korean actors had been caught years ago trying to falsify his health to prevent from enlisting, former PResidential candidate Lee Hwe Chang's son got caught a little over a year ago for losing excessive weight and again falsifying health reports to prevent enlisting, a man broke his own legs years ago to prevent from enlisting. There has been numerous cases where soldiers have died while training with government coverups and their parents suing with no effect.

Trying to show the good side of South Korea is all good, but you also have ot be objective about our nation. Yes, we're filthy rich, but there are a lot of problems with Korea and the military is just a small problem out of many others.

 

My cousin would probably drop kick you in the head if someone said something like that to him while he was serving. But it is true, they are grade A azzholes.

He told me when him and his Hae Byung Dae friends got leave from service and was walking around the streets, everyone would Jjol Ah to them.

 

I don't know where you pulled that figure out, but you must have looked through 1985 GDP statistics on South Korea, brah' But most likely you pulled it out of your azz.

This is the 2002 GDP figure of South Korea

19,400 USD (flutuates between 8 and 9 in World Rankings) It used to be just over 21K before the economic slump over the last few years, but the country is going back up again.

South Korean companies such as Samsung, LG, Lucent Technologies, Daewoo(electronics division), CYON(high end 3G mobile phone makers) have all been outperforming Japanese products in sales for the last 2 and a half years in Europe, Asia, Middle East, and South America(In the US, Japan is still outselling Korean products)

It is also projected, South Korea will go up 6 percent in GDP in 2003.

http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ks.html