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Originally Posted by GirlySports

he has to go when he's 29, in 2020 or 2021

When Korean men turn 20, they receive a letter to enlist in the following year. In 2017, males born in 1997 were invited to enlist in 2018. Most Korean men enlist after freshman or sophomore year of college.

Though the enlistment letter arrives after the 20th birthday, men could postpone the enlistment for many reasons. Illness, death of a family member, university and graduate school, enlistment of a sibling, opening a business, raising a child, and more (including being a professional soccer player or a singer/actor).

However, men can’t postpone enlistment for any reason when they turn 29.

well sort of...https://globalvoices.org/2010/09/20/...ry-obligation/