Art and Sports Personnel (Korean: 예술체육요원; Hanja: 藝術體育要員; RR: Yeseulcheyukyowon) is a service system under the Conscription in South Korea, subject to artists who have won prizes in art competitions or athletes who have won prizes in International Sports Competitions.
The Art and Sports Personnel system was implemented in 1973 for those selected by the Specialist Selection Committee as it was recognized that those with academic, artistic, or physical specialties need to develop or demonstrate their specialties for the national interest.
At that time, the relevant laws of this system were enacted on March 3, 1973, and stipulated in the Act on Special Regulations on Military Service Obligations (병역의무의 특례규제에 관한 법률), which took effect on April 3 of the same year.
Selectors from the following persons; Art contest acknowledged by the Military Manpower Administration shall be governed by the provisions related to art competitions prescribed by the "Regulations on the Assignment and Management of Art and Sports Personnel" of the Military Manpower Administration directive.
[1] Among the past subjects, those excluded by the revision of the directive are those in the art field as follows;