Korean actor and Sgt. Park Bogum has spent his last day in the Navy as he took his last vacation before his official discharge in April.
On Feb. 21, Park Bogum left the Navy headquarters in Gyeryong, South Chungcheong province in South Korea.
He was able to leave the Navy early by applying to use all his remaining personal and pre-discharge leave credits.
Under military guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an enlisted individual is not required to return to his unit when he uses his personal leave credits before his discharge.
While Park Bogum is out of the Navy, he is still under military service until his official discharge on April 30.
Before he left the Navy, Park Bogum served as a lecturer last Feb. 10 to 680 trainees about successful military life.
Park Bogum, who works in the public relations team of the Navy’s military band, spoke about at the event about the military service success case education.
Park, nevertheless, will still technically remain an active serviceman until the discharge date. He has been serving in the Navy since August 2020.
The 28-year-old star of the Korean dramas “Record of Youth,” “Reply 1988” and “Encounter,” enlisted in the Navy on Aug. 31, 2020 and is a member of the military band.
Early this month, Park Bogum passed the government license exam as a barber.
"Park Bogum, who is serving as a sergeant, was named on the list of passers of the skilled technician (barber) practical test, which is the national technical qualification test conducted in December last year,” a Navy official said, according to Korean media Kyunghyang Shinmun.
The official added, “The military recommends that soldiers acquire licenses as part of their self-development before they are discharged.”