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Four football players were caught who had surgery to intentionally injure their wrist ligaments to avoid enlistment. The wrist seems to have thought that there would be no major problem with playing football when injured, but monitoring by the Military Manpower Administration was unavoidable.

This is Kim Tae-hoon, a defense journalist.

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K3 League soccer player was injured at the wrist ligament during his daily life last year and was judged as a 4th grade supplementary in the military service.

The K3 league is a semi-professional league under the professional soccer leagues K1 and K2, but you can continue playing in the league if you receive a supplementary judge.

The story then circulated among the K3 players, and some players intentionally found a way to injure their wrist ligaments.

If you force your wrists while holding the dumbbells, the ligaments will be torn, and if you go to a specific hospital, you will be informed that the diagnosis and surgery are easy.

In fact, one player had surgery in January of last year, and three were forced to injure the ligament in April.

All 4th grade supplements were issued, but they were caught up by the Military Manpower Administration's monitoring of social interests.

[Kim Jung-soo/Vice President of the Military Manpower Administration: K3 soccer league players underwent the same surgery in the same hospital and avoided active duty, and the investigation was overlooked.]

All were put on trial and sentenced to three of them for one year, probation In two years, 120 hours of community service was sentenced.

Once they are convicted, they must face criminal penalties and then again fulfill their military service obligations based on the results of the new examination.

The Military Manpower Administration will strengthen the criteria for military service for wrist ligament surgery.