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X. Substitute Services

According to Article 24 of the Act of Military Service System, substitute services can be enforced
when the National Defense Military is not obstructed and under the conditions that the replacement
of soldiers is not affected, the quality of soldiers does not deteriorate, and it does not create an un-

fair system for military service. According to Article 3 of the Enforcement Statute for Substitute Ser-
vices, draftees shall carry out auxiliary jobs in public affairs and other social services of the user orga-
nizations, or they shall carry out scientific or industrial research and development or technical work in
government agencies, public research agencies (institutions), colleges and universities, administrative

juridical or corporate research institutions recognized by the competent authorities. Furthermore, to
coordinate with the adjustments of military service policies from 2018, men who were born before
1993 are obliged to serve regular substitute military service or apply for R&D substitute services upon
reaching conscription age. Men who were born after 1994 and whose physical status qualifies for reg-

ular service draftees should serve the 4-month general military training, though there are exceptions
for substitute services applications due to family or religious factors.

In addition, with limited sources of substitutive servicemen, public administration service has been

available for application from 2019, which includes consular substitute service, cultural substitute ser-
vice, athletic substitute service, and tribal substitute service for indigenous people, in order to meet
current major state policies.

This policy is intended to cultivate diplomatic talent, to avoid interruption of cultural and athletic

training, as well as to encourage indigenous people to promote tribal development through substi-
tutive service. Since 2020, due to the high demands for long-term care social service and tech R&D
talents, applications are now open for draftees who were born after 1994 in related professions (med-
ical, social welfare, home care, tech R&D, etc.) to apply for substitute service.

In addition, to provide more diverse options for draftees, those born after 1994 are also qualified
to apply for police services and firefighting services from 2021. More draftees responsible for social
security, disaster preventing and relief will also be sent to remote areas; in 2022, in order to meet the
needs of national defense, the implementation of police service will stop, and the number of sub-

stitute services will be reduced. Since 2022, substitute services are divided into four categories: fire-
fighting services, social services, public administration substitute services (consular, cultural, athletic
substitute services and draftees who have indigenous people status), and R&D substitute services.

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