SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s key military compound in central Seoul is set to undergo major realignments due to the planned relocation of the presidential office there at a time of rising security concerns caused by North Korea’s continued missile tests. The area is home to the nation’s defense ministry, the Joint [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Rank-and-file soldiers will not be assigned the job of tracking down those who go AWOL starting next year, officials said Thursday, amid fresh attention on the position after a popular Netflix series, titled “D.P.” The Criminal Investigation Command under the defense ministry and service branches of the military decided [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. said Tuesday that it will supply 10 hydrogen buses to South Korea’s defense ministry by next year. Under an initial agreement with the ministry, Hyundai Motor also said it will build a hydrogen charging station at a military training facility in the central city of Daejeon. [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — South Korea is pushing to export a coronavirus test kit developed by a military research center that drastically reduces the diagnosis time, the defense ministry said Tuesday. The Armed Forces Medical Research Institute has patented the loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method used in the test kit that cuts the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said Monday it has advised soldiers to stop using flavored e-cigarettes at barracks amid growing concerns about health risks linked to vaping. The measure is in line with the government’s strong advice last month against those products, warning that they could cause serious lung illness or [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense ministry expressed “deep regrets” Monday over Japan’s disclosure of new evidence related to a military radar dispute and its decision to halt bilateral consultations. Tokyo’s defense ministry announced its final view on the monthlong spat, saying that bilateral working-level dialogue may not lead to “verification of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday released its own video clip to repudiate Japan’s claims over an escalating spat involving military radar, renewing calls for Tokyo to stop distorting facts and apologize over the incident. Seoul’s defense ministry posted the video clip on YouTube, a week after Tokyo released its own [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s National Security Council (NSC) decided Thursday to take steps, if necessary, against what it said may have been a “serious” violation of safety protocols or even a threat by a Japanese warplane against a South Korean naval ship engaged in a rescue operation. The decision came at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean men who refuse to join the military due to religious faith will be subject to three years of alternative duty at local correctional facilities, nearly double the length of service for Army draftees, the defense ministry announced Friday. The ministry put on public notice the proposed revision [...]
UIJEONGBU, South Korea, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The city government of Uijeongbu, north of Seoul, has demanded the defense ministry conduct an examination into soil contamination at a former U.S. military base site in the city, officials said Tuesday. The Uijeongbu city government bought the former Camp Sears site from the defense ministry in 2012 after the land was returned to the ministry in 2007 under a base consolidation and relocation plan, [...]