South Korea to Provide Free Physicals to Troops

From Yonhap:

South Korea will provide free physical checkups for all its conscripts starting in 2008 as part of efforts to improve their welfare, government and ruling party officials said Thursday.

In their plan, the military and the private sector will establish a cooperative medical system, and a military medical center will be built to help research and education.

Shouldn’t the military being giving physicals to the soldiers to begin with? They act like they are doing these soldiers a favor for something they should have been doing in the first place.