Faker and Team Korea earn military exemption after winning gold medal in League of Legends at the Asian Games

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Faker was already exempt for being a high school dropout but

I guess that E-Sports >>> kpop

well, that is interesting

Unpopular opinion, but they'd be serving in the interest of S. Korea better if they lost and enlisted rather than winning the medal. As an unpopular man once said, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

The skillset that top esports players possess is among the top skillsets that will be required to defend countries and win kinetic wars in the future. For example, kinetic military action will require rapid reflexes and hand-eye coordination when remote controlling advanced drone systems and reacting to the large amounts of data compiled by AI. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising to see militaries start new special forces units specializing in the operation of these types of technological systems, if they haven't already.

In the "higher phase of communist society" for talent not to go to waste, esports medalists would volunteer to serve and award winning idols would continue to release music and tour. The former would fulfill the need of national security. And the latter the need of national soft power. Too bad utopia only exist in theory.

faker sempai gets to win worlds and keep playing

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Unpopular opinion, but they'd be serving in the interest of S. Korea better if they lost and enlisted rather than winning the medal. As an unpopular man once said, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."

The skillset that top esports players possess is among the top skillsets that will be required to defend countries and win kinetic wars in the future. For example, kinetic military action will require rapid reflexes and hand-eye coordination when remote controlling advanced drone systems and reacting to the large amounts of data compiled by AI. In fact, it wouldn't be surprising to see militaries start new special forces units specializing in the operation of these types of technological systems, if they haven't already.

In the "higher phase of communist society" for talent not to go to waste, esports medalists would volunteer to serve and award winning idols would continue to release music and tour. The former would fulfill the need of national security. And the latter the need of national soft power. Too bad utopia only exist in theory.

In reality it is probably way more beneficial for society to get rid of forced conscription all together. All those men would contribute way more to the country in the civilian workforce than the military.

With the way modern warfare is, I don't know how useful any military assets stationed on the Korean peninsula would be anyways. Military bases in South Korea and even Japan would be taken out easily and probably first thing in the event of a hot war in the Pacific. Australia is actually a far more important ally for the US in the region as large portions of it are out of range of Chinese and North Korean misses etc.

Also, the capital of South Korea, Seoul is near the border with North Korea and within the range of conventional artillery and could be shelled by artillery barrages at any time.

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one con of what you said

is that Russians also said they will take Ukraine in 3 days

and here we are...

Ukraine is over 500% larger than South Korea.

Russia failed to meet its objectives early in the invasion more from their own incompetence than anything. They made a ton of mistakes even with basic planning and coordinating ground and air forces etc. If they had not bungled things up it would a lot different.

Iraq lost the conventional war to the US in a month for example.

France had the most powerful military in the world before WW2 but it had bad leadership and was very poor at the tactical and operational level which is why it lost to Germany in the manner it did.

It would be much more useful for SK to have a professional volunteer elite military than a conscript army in my opinion.

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Ukraine is over 500 times larger than South Korea.

Russia failed to meet its objectives early in the invasion more from their own incompetence than anything. They made a ton of mistakes even with basic planning and coordinating ground and air forces etc. If they had not bungled things up it would a lot different.

Iraq lost the conventional war to the US in a month for example.

France had the most powerful military in the world before WW2 but it had bad leadership and was very poor at the tactical and operational level which is why it lost to Germany in the manner it did.

It would be much more useful for SK to have a professional volunteer elite military than a conscript army in my opinion.

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Wow, you know a lot!?

Are you a history buff or something?

Quote from bartkun

6 times not 500 :)

overall also remember that there were Russian people already living and working there as well in most east parts of the country

also I get your point don't get me wrong but overall the whole attack on military bases will only work if it's atomic bomb

current conflict in Ukraine already proved that just sending some regular rockets doesn't; work anymore

I made a mistake haha, I meant over 500% not 500 times haha.

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Wow, you know a lot!?

Are you a history buff or something?

I do like history, but my main interests are actually economics and linguistics lol.

Quote from bartkun

6 times not 500 :)

overall also remember that there were Russian people already living and working there as well in most east parts of the country

also I get your point don't get me wrong but overall the whole attack on military bases will only work if it's atomic bomb

current conflict in Ukraine already proved that just sending some regular rockets doesn't; work anymore

I think it's going to be a really long war because both sides are entrenched now, but I think a war of attrition is slightly in Russia's favor, as Ukraine really does need Europe and the US to keep supporting it win. I don't know if there is the political will to do so in Washington and Brussels. Both the EU and the US are democratic in general and if the voters get tired of spending tax dollars in Ukraine and paying higher energy costs it could prove to be highly unpopular like Vietnam was.