[스포츠]Short Track Lim Hyo-jun, if nationality recovers?…again’military duty’

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Short track player Lim Hyo-jun explained that he had always kept’nationality recovery’ in mind when YTN reported that he had naturalized to China early 9 months ago.

However, if you become a Korean again, you will not be able to avoid the’military duty’.

This is Jo Eun-ji.

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Short Track Lim Hyo-jun was awarded the gold medal at the PyeongChang Olympics in 2018 and was eligible for military service.

I received basic military training for 4 weeks, but I did not become a so-called’military pen’.

According to the Military Service Act, for the next 2 years and 10 months, you are obligated to engage in related fields as’physical personnel’, and 544 hours of volunteer work are also mandatory.

However, in June last year, two years and four months after the glory of Pyeongchang, Im Hyo-jun was unable to fill the mandatory service period as the naturalization procedure in China was completed.

Volunteer work was also limited to 84 hours, which is 15% of the quota, and that was the last time on November 15, 2019.

[국민체육진흥공단 관계자 : 코로나19 때문에 사회적 거리 두기가 시행되면서 (봉사활동을) 하지 못했던 거죠.]

As a result, Lim Hyo-jun became a Chinese citizen, Lin Xiao-jun, with a status of’uncompleted military service’.

[정부 관계자 : 병역 의무가 대한민국 국민이에요. 이미 중국 국적이 됐기 때문에 병역 의무가 없는 게 사실이에요.]

As explained by Lim Hyo-jun, what if you recover your Korean nationality? You will be transferred to the original status of’Social Service Personnel Target’ before obtaining the qualification as a physical education agent.

However, assuming Hyojun Lim, born in 1996, after the age of 38, it is exempted from regaining nationality after 2034.

[병무청 관계자 : 병적이 제적되는 겁니다, 쉽게 얘기해서. 우리나라 사람이 아니기 때문에…. 다시 체육요원으로 편입할 수 있느냐, 그건 아마 힘들 겁니다.]

Taking the YTN coverage together, it seems that Hyojun Lim’s side was not clearly aware of the provisions related to military service.

The forced harassment case triggered by the chronic conflict with the juniors of the national team, followed by disciplinary action and lawsuits, as well as the desire for a second consecutive Olympic victory, made a decision to’naturalize in China’, and in many ways, it became an amnesty.

YTN Cho Eunji[[email protected]]is.

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