Yang Min-hyeok's remarks about the military don't exactly come across as "honesty"...

For those remarks to be considered honesty, if he had been saying things like that even before winning the gold medal—for instance, saying "I want to win so I can get a military service exemption"—then I would have accepted it as honesty.
But, he stayed quiet without saying a word until he won, and then, even though the reporter didn't even mention the military, he was the first to say
that he was only thinking about the military exemption. To me, that doesn't look like honesty; it just makes him look like an irresponsible athlete who is caught up in his own emotions and only cares about himself.