SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Over 8,000 permanent residents have fulfilled South Korea’s military service over the past two decades under a voluntary enrollment system, the Military Manpower Administration (MMA) said Thursday. The manpower agency adopted the voluntary enrollment system in 2004 to allow overseas residents whose mandatory military service was exempted or postponed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s military is expected to resume exercises in buffer zones set under a 2018 inter-Korean military accord as they have become effectively invalid after North Korea’s recent artillery firing, officials said Tuesday. On Monday, the South’s military said it will resume artillery firings and drills near the sea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to introduce artificial intelligence (AI)-powered surveillance technology in some front-line outposts to replace outdated systems and better detect threats along the border with North Korea, the state arms agency said Tuesday. The new system with enhanced monitoring capabilities will be introduced in eastern front-line general outposts [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – The risk of accidental clashes between the two Korea has risen as buffer zones created under a 2018 inter-Korean military agreement became invalid following North Korea’s conducting of live-fire drills near the western maritime border. Tension has escalated after North Korea fired around 350 rounds of artillery shells in [...]
GEOJE, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, currently known as Hanwha Ocean, is embroiled in a security breach involving the leak of submarine blueprints to Taiwan, with the South Korean police conducting an investigation. According to police reports on January 4, the South Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency has begun an investigation into [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The unification ministry said Thursday it has decided to dissolve the foundation in charge of assisting the operation of a now-shuttered joint industrial complex in North Korea’s border city of Kaesong amid frosty inter-Korean ties. The move came nearly eight years after South Korea shut down the industrial complex [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The Military Manpower Administration (MMA) said Thursday it has created a cyber investigation team to step up monitoring on those who attempt to evade mandatory military service and crack down on draft dodgers. The MMA said the new team will look into those who post information on how to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Army conducted live-fire artillery and mechanized unit maneuver drills Tuesday to reinforce readiness against possible North Korean provocations in the new year, its officials said. The exercise took place in areas near the front line, involving the Capital Mechanized Infantry Division and the 2nd Quick Response Division, among [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 1 (Korea Bizwire) –South Korea issued alerts on rising sea levels in parts of the East Sea on Monday following a major earthquake off Japan’s west coast. The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) said a tsunami caused by a 7.6 magnitude quake hitting Ishikawa and nearby prefectures could result in a rise in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy said Thursday it selected the 2,500-ton ROKS Gwangju frigate as this year’s “top gun” ship following an annual assessment of its warships’ combat capabilities. The frigate of the Third Fleet based in Yeongam County, 308 kilometers south of Seoul, won the title after scoring top marks in [...]