Military Manpower Administration releases list of 355 people... Including son of former Financial Services Commission chairman
The Military Manpower Administration (MMA) disclosed the list of individuals evading military service last year. The number of military service evaders last year is the highest among those disclosed in the past five years (2018?2022).
On the morning of the 17th, when the first military service physical examination of 2021 was conducted, examinees were undergoing physical examinations at the Seoul Regional Military Manpower Administration in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@
On the 14th, the MMA announced that it had published the personal information of 355 military service evaders on the MMA website.
The MMA discloses the personal information of military service evaders pursuant to Article 81-2 of the Military Service Act. The first list was posted in December 2016. The number of evaders disclosed over the past five years were 281 in 2021, 342 in 2020, 256 in 2019, and 261 in 2018.
The evaders disclosed this time include 109 who evaded active duty enlistment, 46 who evaded social service personnel summons, 2 who evaded alternative service summons, 23 who evaded military physical examination, and 175 who violated overseas travel permission obligations.
The list of military service evaders disclosed this year also includes Eun Mo (31), the son of former Financial Services Commission Chairman Eun Seong-su, whom the MMA reported to the police last July on suspicion of violating the Military Service Act. Eun obtained U.S. permanent residency two years ago and returned to Korea in January last year. In the same month, he received a three-month overseas travel permit from the MMA for the purpose of "household arrangements for enlistment" and departed for the U.S. However, Eun did not return after three months and applied for an extension of overseas travel, which the MMA rejected, ordering him to return by May last year. When Eun refused to comply and did not return, the MMA reported him to the police.
In March this year, the MMA notified the evasion targets in advance that they would be publicly disclosed and provided a six-month opportunity to present their explanations. Afterward, the final list of individuals to be disclosed was confirmed through deliberation by the Military Service Evasion Disclosure Review Committee.
The disclosed information of military service evaders includes six items: name, age, address, evasion date, evasion details, and violated legal provisions. However, if a disclosed person fulfills their military service such as enlistment, their name is removed from the list. Since the first disclosure of military service evaders, the MMA has disclosed 2,255 evaders to date, excluding 1,005 who have fulfilled their military service obligations from the disclosure list.
An MMA official stated, "We expect that disclosing the personal information of military service evaders will help prevent evasion and establish a culture of faithfully fulfilling military service."
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