South Korea convicts man over binge eating to dodge military draft

Iulian Moșneagu

Seoul, South Korea CNN  —  A South Korean man who ate to the point of obesity in an attempt to dodge the army has avoided prison after he pledged to take up his mandatory military service. The man, who was not publicly identified, was sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for two years, by a court in Seoul for violating the country’s Military Service Act. He was ruled out of active duty in June last year after he weighed in at 102 kilograms (225 pounds) with a body mass index classified as