The armed forces have been considering how to deal with frequent references to men in their songs because of a growing number of female recruits, the Korea Times reports . Current songs - including one of the military's most famous tunes, Real Men - were penned in a different era when the sexes were less equal, a military spokesman says. But with about 10,000 female recruits now singing along, things may need to change. While existing songs will remain untouched, it seems new compositions will get a gender-neutral treatment. "The military has conducted surveys on its own, which showed that few female soldiers have antipathy to the existing songs," says spokesman Kim Min-seok. "Therefore, authorities decided to leave existing songs as they are, but exclude problematic words from those created from now on."