Pay for ROK Conscripts to Rise By 15%

Could you just imagine the whinging in the US if a mandatory service requirement was mandated and conscripts were making less than $200 a month?:

Salaries for conscripted soldiers will go up 15 percent on-year in 2016, with sergeants earning 197,100 won a month, according to the government.

All able-bodied South Korean men must carry out compulsory military service for about two years in a country that faces North Korea across a heavily fortified border. (Korea Herald)

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