The Korea Military Academy may ease its time-honoured ban on smoking, drinking and relations with the opposite sex, following questions regarding its effectiveness, Yonhap News Agency reported.

Since its establishment in 1952, the officer training school has forbidden cadets from smoking, drinking, sex and marriage while in school. The bans are supposed to instill discipline. These regulations are valid at all times, whether on or off campus, in or out of uniform. What is proposed would loosen off campus restrictions, the news agency said.
A senior army official cited by Yonhap said, "The army is considering improving the current system to apply separate rules on and off campus, taking into consideration the legal regulations, social trend and education purpose."