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<p>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:</p>
<p>[The</a> accidental citizen soldier - seattlepi.com](<a href=“http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/The-accidental-citizen-soldier-1141729.php]The”>http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/The-accidental-citizen-soldier-1141729.php)</p>
<p>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.</p>