SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An Air Force brigadier general has been demoted by one rank to colonel for mishandling a sexual assault case that led to the suicide death of a female soldier, military sources said Saturday. Jeon Ik-soo, the chief legal affairs officer of the Air Force, became the first general officer [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Two U.S. B-1B Lancer strategic bombers staged joint drills with South Korean F-35A stealth fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula on Saturday, the last day of the allies’ Vigilant Storm exercise, according to Seoul’s defense authorities. It marked the first time that the long-range supersonic bomber has been deployed [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States will hold major combined air drills, involving some 240 military aircraft, next week to verify the allies’ wartime operational capabilities, the Air Force here said Friday, amid growing North Korean security threats. The five-day Vigilant Storm exercise is set to begin Monday, as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Air Force said Thursday it will participate in a multinational exercise, hosted by Australia, to open late this month as part of efforts to bolster deterrence against evolving North Korean threats. A squadron of KF-16 fighters is set to depart from an air base in Chungju, 147 [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States have been conducting their first combined air drills here involving their respective F-35A stealth fighters, Seoul officials said Thursday, in an apparent show of force against North Korea’s evolving military threats. The four-day drills kicked off Monday amid lingering concerns that Pyongyang could [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Air Force’s aerobatic flight team plans to join three international air shows in Britain in July, Seoul officials said Monday, marking its first visit to the European nation in 10 years. The Black Eagles team is set to participate in the Southport Air Show, Royal International [...]
SEOUL, March 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean Air Force unit has achieved 210,000 hours of accident-free flight since 2007, officials said Monday, in a milestone highlighting its focus on safety. The 19th Fighter Wing in Chungju, 147 kilometers south of Seoul, posted the record after one of its fighters landed on its runway [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Air Force on Friday invited a child with a rare type of cancer as a one-day member of its acrobatic flight team, the Black Eagles. Choi Yoon-soo loved planes so much that he had a wish of joining an air show to watch the air maneuvers of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Air Force pilots who applied for discharge this year turned out to be zero since their career shift to private airlines became almost impossible due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the data that Rep. Kim Min-ki of the ruling Democratic Party received from the South [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The state-run Independence Hall of Korea revealed Thursday old photos of the Willows Korean Aviation School, the foundation of today’s South Korean Air Force, for the first time. The Willows Korean Aviation School was established in 1920 by Noh Baek-rin, the defense minister of the Provisional Government of the [...]