SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Locally made flail tanks that can detect and remove land mines have made a debut on the front lines, the arms procurement agency said Wednesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) had delivered the first mass-produced batches of mine-clearing tanks developed by Hyundai Rotem Co., a South Korean train [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Service members will be able to enjoy new menu items and diverse foods, such as hamburgers from famous burger chains and salmon, at barracks next year. According to the defense ministry’s new guidelines on military meals for 2021, two dozen new menu items will be added to a list [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The military will provide vegetarian and Muslim enlistees with a vegan diet excluding any meat and ham starting next year, the defense ministry said Sunday. From February, prospective draftees will be asked to mark if they are a vegetarian when they take physical examinations, the ministry said. Two columns [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said Wednesday it will complete reducing the mandatory military service period to 18 months by next year as planned as part of a series of reform projects under way to make the military “smaller and stronger.” During a meeting on defense reform presided over by Defense [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 300 Special Warfare officers were dispatched to public health centers Monday to help with the government’s handling of the new coronavirus, the Army said. A total of 379 officers from the Army’s Special Warfare Command were sent to 79 public health centers in Seoul and the surrounding [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will develop an autonomous underwater mine detector with its indigenous technologies to boost the military’s capabilities in mine countermeasure operations, the arms procurement agency said Wednesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said it has signed a 12 billion-won (US$11 million) contract with LIG Nex1 Co. to develop [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The military will introduce a Samsung smartphone-based combat information device on a trial basis next year that will enable troops to view real-time battle information without relying on communications networks. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said it has signed a contract with LIG Nex1 Co. to buy the individual [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The military plans to deploy suicide unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and gun-shooting drones on a trial basis next year under a rapid acquisition project aimed at better responding to fast-evolving future battle environments, the arms procurement agency said Wednesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration said it has signed contracts [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry plans to develop a “big data” collection and analysis system to more efficiently take advantage of diverse and scattered data so as to make better policy for military operations and troops. Currently, the military has vast amounts of data on more than 1.4 million items related [...]