SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Defense jointly announced the launch of a digital mental health service for soldiers starting on Monday. The service was developed by upgrading and reconfiguring the “digital wellness” service currently under development at Hanyang University, with support from the ICT [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea launched a joint military command overseeing drone operations Friday, officials said, amid efforts to step up the use of the unmanned assets to respond to evolving military threats from Pyongyang. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) held a ceremony marking the establishment of the Drone Operations Command [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has staged a large-scale Army exercise this week, mobilizing hundreds of armored vehicles, to reinforce its readiness against North Korean military threats, officials said Thursday. The Army’s VII Maneuver Corps mobilized some 550 tracked vehicles, including tanks and self-propelled howitzers, as well as over 3,000 troops for [...]
PYEONGTAEK, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Space Force unit in South Korea seeks to step up cooperation with the South Korean military to strengthen readiness against North Korean missile threats, its officials have said, amid Pyongyang’s continued saber-rattling. Since its launch last year, U.S. Space Forces Korea has been working with other U.S. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The police have made the decision to provide each local police officer, including those stationed at district and police boxes, with a firearm within a three-year timeframe, according to NPA’s announcement on Tuesday. This initiative includes the issuance of a .38 revolver as well as a low-risk revolver (or [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean and U.S. navy special commandos held joint drills at an American military base south of Seoul on Friday to beef up their readiness, Seoul officials said, amid tensions caused by North Korea’s failed yet defiant space rocket launch earlier this week. The exercise took place at Camp [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States were staging combined urban combat training this week to strengthen their interoperability, Seoul’s Army said Thursday, as part of major joint military drills between the allies this month. The five-day Army exercise kicked off at an urban operations training ground in Paju, 37 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Air Force staged air defense drills Monday to reinforce its combat readiness, officials said, as tensions linger over North Korea’s continued missile launches. The defensive counter air drills took place across 12 units nationwide in connection with major ongoing South Korea-U.S. combined exercise drills, officials said. The [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A 1,200-ton South Korean submarine has achieved 300,000 miles of accident-free maritime operations in a milestone underscoring the Navy’s enhanced underwater operational capabilities, the armed service said Monday. A ceremony celebrating the ROKS Park Wi’s achievement was set to take place at the Submarine Force Command in Changwon, some [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The annual Ulchi civil defense exercise kicked off Monday for a four-day run nationwide in conjunction with a joint military exercise between South Korea and the United States, the interior ministry said. Some 580,000 officials from about 4,000 city, county and ward governments, public institutions and others across the [...]