"How did HE Get In?"

cobrat
Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:17:14 +0000

thanks C. Did not know that.



Wow! I just googled it and it turns out the South Korean draft law is worse than I thought. Looks like even males BORN in the US, but of South Korean descent are liable for the South Korean military draft if they are considered dual-nationals by being registered into the South Korean household registry at birth/childhood by grandparents/parents and the parents didn’t renounce South Korean citizenship before the male turns 18:

[The accidental citizen soldier - seattlepi.com](http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/The-accidental-citizen-soldier-1141729.php)

This makes South Korea even more far reaching than the ROC(Taiwan) which also has a mandatory draft for all males, but exempts Chinese born outside of ROC…especially foreign citizens unless we take ROC citizenship or stay in the ROC for more than I believe 3 consecutive months. In practice, those born outside are almost always exempted.