SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Marine Corps has staged regular defense drills on border islands in the Yellow Sea as part of efforts to maintain readiness against North Korean military threats, officials said Friday. The three-day joint exercise involving the Army, Navy and Air Force began Wednesday on islands near the Northern Limit [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Marine Corps will hold its first-ever joint drill with the Japanese army in the Philippines next month, foreign media reports said Tuesday. The joint exercise will take place during KAMANDAG, an international military exercise in the Philippines, slated for June, according to Kyodo News Agency and [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The Navy and the Marine Corps have launched a large-scale amphibious landing exercise in the southeastern coastal city of Pohang earlier this week to sharpen their joint operational capabilities, the armed forces said. Some 3,200 troops are taking part in the regular brigade-level drills that kicked off in areas [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has formally confirmed its ratification of a U.N. agreement on the sustainable use of marine biological diversity, becoming the first East Asian country to do so, Seoul’s foreign ministry said Thursday. South Korean Ambassador to the U.N. Hwang Joon-kook deposited an instrument of the ratification for the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A former Marine Corps chief investigator was acquitted on Thursday of subordination charges in a military probe into a young conscript killed during flood-related rescue operations. A court martial in central Seoul delivered the ruling on Col. Park Jung-hun, who was accused of insubordination and defamation of his superior [...]
POHANG, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – In a series of unusual sightings that experts say may be linked to climate change, several subtropical marine species have been spotted in the waters off Pohang, a coastal city in North Gyeongsang Province. On August 26, local fishermen reported seeing a pod of false killer whales in the sea [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Busan Coast Guard announced on April 20 that it will award a total of 900,000 won in rewards to individuals who reported cases of ocean pollution during the first quarter of this year. The Coast Guard operates a reward system for reporting marine pollution incidents to supplement its ocean [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea on Friday awarded an order of national security merit to a Marine who died during search and rescue operations for victims of torrential rains earlier this week, the Marine Corps said. The government honored late Marine Cpl. Chae Su-geun of the 1st Marine Division with the Gwangbok [...]
POHANG, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean steelmaker POSCO is offering special hiring benefits to service members from the Marine Corps who joined the relief efforts when super Typhoon Hinnamnor hit the country. The company decided to exempt service members recommended by the commander of the 1st Marine Division, stationed the southeastern city of [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean Marine draftee who departed for Poland without approval while on vacation is in the custody of Ukraine authorities, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday, amid a report he intends to help Ukraine’s fight against Russia’s invasion. The Marine attempted to enter Ukraine from Poland but was [...]