SEOUL, South Korea — A South Korean man hoping to avoid mandatory military service has been convicted after trying to eat his way out of it. He was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, under the Military Service Act, which allows for sentences of up to three years for evading mandatory military service without justifiable cause. The sentences were “relatively lenient” because neither of the men had previous criminal convictions, the court official said. “Most of all,” the official said, the man “accepted his wrongdoing and vowed to serve his military duty sincerely.”The official could not confirm whether the man had started his military service. Stella Kim reported from Seoul, South Korea, and Seyed Ismail Nafeesa from Hong Kong.

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