[Timeline] Summary of T.O.P's military transfer to public service worker

Currently there are many articles available that include incomplete or at times even false news on T.O.P's mandatory military service transfer from conscripted police officer to public service worker on the internet. Especially English articles seem to only report very selective information. With the hope of clearing up some confusion I have hence summarized the events by a timeline below: 

On July 20th, 2017 the court announced the final verdict on T.O.P's trial. He was sentenced to 10 months in prison if he violates his two year probation period. T.O.P also received a 12.000W fine which is based on the estimated prize of buying the amount of cannabis T.O.P was charged with of smoking.

On July 28th, on the day the appeal period (one week) expired, T.O.P was ordered to return to the police station he was originally serving at. T.O.P asked for sick-leave due to a social anxiety disorder as certified by his doctor and mum.

The following days, a police committee at Police Headquarters examined the situation and deemed T.O.P unfit to serve as a police officer as part of his mandatory military service. On July 31st, 2017 the case was handed over to the Military Manpower Administration to relocate T.O.P to a different department.

This process is in line with the military service disposition criteria. This states that if someone is sentenced to a prison term of over 6 months but under 18 months he is subject to a non-compulsory transfer.

This implies two things: T.O.P's prior served time as part of military service remains valid (117 days from 9th February to 5th June 2017) and the service time overall remains unchanged at a total of 637 days. Which means T.O.P has 520 days remaining of his mandatory military service time.

On August 28th, 2017 the Military Manpower Administration announced T.O.P's transfer to serving in the Military as public service worker.

Between then and a new announcement on January 4th, 2018 T.O.P has been waiting for the relocation details for his new position.

On January 4th, 2018 it was announced that T.O.P is most likely to be re-located to the military administration office in Yongsan-gu (Seoul): the position itself is not yet finalized but will likely deal with Disaster Safety - the official letter of relocation is expected to be sent shortly and T.O.P is expected to start his new role in mid-January 2018. Starting on his first day at the office his remaining military service time of 520 days will be applied, leading to a possible discharge date in mid-June 2019.

Source: previous updates as summarized on BIGBANGmusic (@_BBmusic) and this informative article:  http://www.kukinews.com/news/article.html?no=514613 – Summary provided by www.BIGBANGmusic.de / (@_BBmusic)  (please credit appropriately).


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