SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — North Korean soldiers are failing to receive even a modicum of human rights protection, as advised by the international community, during incarceration. The Center for Military Human Rights Korea, a civic group, held a conference in Seoul on Tuesday to discuss the results of an investigation into human rights [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The government is stepping up to distribute uniforms recycled from plastic bottles to the military and the police. The Ministry of Environment hosted a ceremony in Seoul on Monday where the Ministry of Defense, the National Police Agency, and the Korea Federation of Textile Industries bought technical wear made [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Military personnel will begin receiving coronavirus vaccines starting in June, with those serving in inter-Korean border areas and at command and control centers to be high on the list, officials said Monday. Under the inoculation plan, the defense ministry began administering COVID-19 vaccines this month, and around 2,400 military [...]
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, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States will stage a major springtime combined military exercise starting this week in a scaled-back manner amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Sunday. Whether to hold the regular exercise has drawn attention as the unification ministry and some civic [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry on Wednesday began administering coronavirus vaccines to military personnel, with doctors and other health care workers becoming the first recipient group, officials said. The medical staff at the Korean Armed Forces Yangju Hospital in the city of Yangju, some 50 kilometers north of Seoul, received COVID-19 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has approved a male citizen’s request to substitute his mandatory military service for other public service due to his personal beliefs, marking the first such case other than those citing religious reasons, the military manpower agency said Wednesday. By law, all able-bodied South Korean men must carry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will push to deploy a light aircraft carrier by 2033 to boost the country’s defense capabilities, the arms procurement agency said Monday. The defense project promotion committee held a videoconference, presided over by Defense Minister Suh Wook, and approved the plan to build a 30,000-ton-class light aircraft [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States are preparing to hold their annual springtime combined military exercise next month, sources said Sunday. The planned exercise has drawn keen attention amid concern that North Korea could use the exercise as a pretext for provocations in the early months of the administration [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea and the United States conducted fewer joint military exercises last year compared with a year earlier amid the coronavirus pandemic, defense ministry data showed Saturday. The two countries staged a total of 172 joint training sessions in South Korea last year, down from 191 in 2019. By [...]