The South Korean supreme court has ruled religion as an acceptable exemption for the country's long-standing mandatory conscription laws.
Previously, all able bodied men in South Korea we're forced to take up military service with little exceptions, resulting in complications for Jehovah's Witnesses.
Months ago, a young Jehovah's Witness was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for refusing to join the military, of which a possible maximum penalty could have been 3 years.