Congress has the final say, and for the past several years, military pay raises have adhered to the ECI, regardless of which party was in power. Pay scale for 2024 will see a 5.2% pay raise on January 1st, last year it was 4.6%. The military pays only by direct deposit, twice month...
udn.com/news/story/121823/6674688?from=udn_ch2cate6643sub121823_pulldownmenu_v2 ⊙ S. Korean presidential candidates have never tried to win the election by shortening mandatory military service (their service days is about 5 times of Taiwan's), but Taiwan's politicians do ! for instance,...