ROK Military Deciding on What to Do with Soldier Who Had Gender Reassignment Surgery

It will be interesting to see what the ROK military does with this case:

Will South Korea accept a transgender person in the military? 

The Army is examining a “keep or drop” case involving a petty officer who underwent sex-change surgery in Thailand last year while on leave. 

The officer ― who is also seeking to change his legal gender to “female” ― is recuperating from the surgery, hoping to stay in the military.

The Army is planning to hold a meeting next week to decide on the case. If the decision is to keep “him,” he will become the first transgender person in uniform. This could have a far-reaching impact on a society facing heated conflicts over LGBT and gender-based discrimination. 

Korea Times

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setnaffa
4 years ago

What they should do is, unless the dude had permission from his CO, give him a dishonorable discharge.

But, under Moon, they may decide to make him an Admiral and assign him to Korea-Japan relations.

n2guns
n2guns
4 years ago

Petty officer – Army?? “The Army is planning…”

setnaffa
4 years ago

@n2guns, it is Korea Times, after all… They were probably too lazy to even check Wikipedia… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_military_ranks_of_Korea#Enlisted_ranks

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
4 years ago

ROK MILITARY DECIDING ON WHAT TO DO WITH SOLDIER WHO HAD GENDER REASSIGNMENT SURGERY

Hold a drag show?

guitard
guitard
4 years ago

That took some balls to do that!

setnaffa
4 years ago

I’d bet he’s not man enough to try it again. But I have no experience in these matters and wish to remain ignorant

charliem
charliem
4 years ago

Damaging government property.

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4 years ago

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guitard
guitard
4 years ago

Petty officer – Army?? “The Army is planning…”
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Although this no doubt is a mistake, when speaking in Korean, the ROK military uses the same ranks for all of its service. So for example, a ROK Army Major named Kim is called Kim so-ryung; and a ROK Navy Lt Cmdr named Kim is also called Kim so-ryung (so-ryung is the Korean word for O-4).

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