SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program applicants is declining at a rapid pace as the monthly wage of conscripted soldiers increases with their duration of military service becoming shorter. This year’s Army ROTC program applicants numbered 7,600, the second lowest behind only 2020 when the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Naval Academy has changed its official policy to allow first-year cadets to engage in relationships. The academy announced Thursday that the revised code of conduct will take effect in September at the start of the second semester. The academy earlier banned first-year cadets from engaging in relationships [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean Naval Academy has reportedly penalized some 40 cadets who turned themselves in for engaging in romantic relationships during their freshman year, placing them under detention. And some say that these measures are excessive. All military academies in South Korea ban first year cadets from engaging in romantic relationships [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Dozens of cadets from the military nursing academy were sent to coronavirus treatment centers Friday to help out the government’s fight against the fast-spreading pandemic, the defense ministry said. A total of 77 students and four nursing officers from the Korea Armed Forces Nursing Academy will support the medical [...]