SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) —On Sunday, the South Korean presidential office announced that it will engage in “necessary discussions” with the United States following reports from foreign media outlets that U.S. intelligence agencies have been spying on the South Korean government with regards to issues including support for the war in Ukraine. At a [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The remains of a Korean independence fighter who inspired a hit 2018 TV series will return home from the United States next week a century after his death, the veterans ministry said Tuesday. The remains of Hwang Ki-hwan, currently laid to rest at Mount Olivet Cemetery in New York, [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will name a bike path at a former battle site after Turkey this week, under a program to commemorate the participation of the country and 21 others in the 1950-53 Korean War, the veterans ministry said Thursday. The ministry has arranged the program to remember the sacrifices [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States conducted major amphibious assault drills mobilizing their high-spirited forces, landing ships, stealth fighters and choppers under the rallying cry of “decisive action’ in a southern city on Wednesday. The South’s Marine Corps revealed to the media part of the drills that proceeded in [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Air Force’s Black Eagles aerobatic team plans to participate in a biennial air show in Malaysia in May, the armed service said Wednesday. The team will join the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) slated to take place at the Langkawi International Airport from May [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier arrived in the southeastern port city of Busan on Tuesday, in yet another show of America’s military might against growing North Korean threats. The USS Nimitz carrier docked at ROK Fleet Command in the city, 325 kilometers southeast of Seoul, after its strike group [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea successfully carried out the first armament tests on two prototypes of its homegrown KF-21 fighter Tuesday, the state arms procurement agency said, in a step to vet its combat capabilities. The prototypes underwent separate tests over the waters off the country’s southern coast after they took off [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Friday it has conducted the first training on the deployment of a “remote” launcher of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea. The U.S. military made public a set of photos of Sunday’s training, hours after the [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol vowed Friday to make North Korea pay for its reckless provocations as the regime claimed to have carried out additional simulations of nuclear attacks on its enemies. Yoon issued the warning hours after North Korea said it conducted the simulations this week involving cruise missile [...]
SEOUL/POCHEON, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States have staged a large-scale combined live-fire exercise near the inter-Korean border, the South’s Army said Thursday, in a show of the allies’ “tremendous” firepower amid North Korea’s evolving threats. The four-day drills took place at the Rodriguez Live Fire Complex in Pocheon, about [...]