Military Service in South Korea Men are responsible for military duty in South Korea. There are two types of duty, active duty or non-active duty. To determine whether to be qualified on active duty or not, men have to be checked up on their health status when they become an adult. Conscripts who don't qualify the criteria of health status can’t be on active duty even they want to be. Non-active conscripts should work for public/civil service for about 2 years which is few months longer than active duty. If conscripts have a professional skill, e.g. medicine, computer engineering, they can choose to finish their duty as an alternative service. But they should work for about 3 years which is longer than other duties. As far as I felt as a conscript who is currently serving the military, most of the conscripts do not want to take their military duty due to various reasons: Many people died and killed by enemy and accidents. It’s probably inevitable in the military. But the governments do not take their responsibility and avoid to pay proper compensation for victims. Conscripts get paid $200 per month, which is 20 times smaller than minimum wage. Time is important and especially twenties’ are more valuable in our life. The governments have to treat conscripts much better than now. We dedicate our life to protect our family and friends. We deserve better.