1. Voluntary
Military

2. INDEX
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3. 01
Issue

4. I Voluntary military VS Military Conscription
Volunteer military system is not forced conscription,
it is a system functioned by recruiting career soldiers
who personally apply to the army.
Conscription is a system where a Nation calls upon
it’s people by enforcing compulsory military service
system to defend the country.

5. 02
Agreement

6. I Advantage Utilization of Talented people
In military they will only select the essential personnel
like the corporations’ do, this will make the military
Operate more efficiently and will significantly decrease in
desertion (failing to return to base) and internal
accidents especially suicide.

7. I Advantage 2. Decrease in violation of human rights
Since soldier is a public officer beating, abusing,
Military absurdity, internal absurdity and rank-ignorance
will significantly decrease and the organization will
be more strengthened.

8. I Advantage 3. Corruption
A systematic irregularity for avoiding military service
compulsory military service does not exist.

9. I Advantage 4. Welfares of Officers and Soliders
Soldiers equipment such as Clothings, Infantry Equipment,
Personal Equipment, Combat Equipment, Military bags
and so on can be improved and military can be more
Modernized.

10. I Advantage 5. Professionalism
Since it is volunteer it’s more like to be very motivational,
because they will usually serve the country longer than the
NCOs and soldiers and also it will help to enhance
professionalism. T his is important when the equipment
handling takes a long time and be an expert of the
equipment.

11. 03
Article and quote

12. IReserch

14. 03
Controversy

15. I Rich and the Poor controversy
The point is people have to spend 2 years in the Army by
compulsory means but if you volunteer and join the
Army you would get stable income, be familiar with skills
that requires professionalism, Military commissioned
education and a chance of getting university education
and also get additional points which will be
advantageous of getting hired by a public owned
companies after your discharge.

16. I Rich and the Poor controversy
Many number of citizens’ volunteer for being a
policemen or a firefighter but we do not call this community
discrimination. But in other hand volunteering for the Army
many people admit this being community discrimination
which is not very convincing.
It is just a career path for everyone.
-Newspaper article spoken by
Doohwan kim

17. I Academic Controversies
If volunteer military system was to be functioned
it would be hard to see the citizen volunteering
for the army if the person who finished university
education is capable of finding a good work place.
If I were to raise some objections about this topic,
I have to point out about the entrance level of
Korean university being unbelievably high.

18. I Academic Controversies
Currently almost all of the soldiers in Korea army has not
Finished their studies in university yet, great number of them
join the army while they are still attending university so it
would mean them joining the army after only finishing
the first year this would be the same as them only
finishing high school because they have not “fitted in”
yet in their universities.

19. 03
Summary

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21. I According to Wikipedia out of all of the Countries
in the world there are 24 Countries without military
and there are 4 countries such as Canada Indonesia
that won’t conscript if war was to break out.
There are 70 Countries that abolished conscription
system lately Germany, Sweden, Serbia etc. has
abolished conscription system so this would make
South Korea the only Country that still has this
system out of all developed Countries.

22. I Country expected to abolish conscription
Republic of China : Planned on 2015 but was extended to
2017 because of short of volunteers
Turkey : Expecting to abolish before 2020.
Russia : Mid to long term expected to change to
Volunteer System.
Georgia, Kazakhstan : Expected to change to
volunteer system on 2016.

23. I The historians of England are stating that struggles
and the damages done was the worst in WW1 and WW2
the main reason for this was because England had
conscription system back then.
Forces that require professionalism such
as SAS special force are natives of England, England has
the most studies and proof of conscription
being inefficient.

24. I You cannot judge an army just by the number of their
soldiers, for example 1.3 million Iraq troops have lost to only
18 thousand troops of United States. Winning the war
does not depend on the numbers but in
modernized weapons.

25. I Rather than spending all of the limited defense budget
on large-scale troops maintenance, they should invest
in strengthening professionalism and weapon
modernization.
We should walk on a path for a long-term of self-defense.

26. Thank You