SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States on Friday held a meeting of their top air force commanders to discuss the allies’ combined air power operations, according to the Air Force. Some 100 senior commanders from the two allies attended the 2016 Air Bose Conference and talked about ways to [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent hacking attempt on South Korea’s Air Force’s website apparently used methods mostly employed by North Korean hackers, a military source said Friday, raising suspicion that Pyongyang might have been behind the cyberattack. Military authorities have been conducting an investigation into a suspected hacking attempt into the official [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s state arms procurement agency on Thursday said it has picked U.S. company General Electric (GE) as the preferred bidder to supply engines for the country’s next-generation fighter jets. The U.S. company has been picked as the supplier for the Korean Fighter Experimental (KF-X) program, according to the [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s Air Force website has been experiencing problems for 13 days due to an unidentified hacking attack, local officials said Wednesday. An official said the Air Force suspended its website operations from the early morning of May 12 when malicious code was found in it. The Air Force [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Low wages and poor working conditions are pushing a growing number of Air Force pilots out the door, studies showed Sunday. According to the Air Force, 127 pilots left the military last year, up from 124 in 2013 and 113 in 2012. It said the majority of those were [...]