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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The military began enforcing a tighter social distancing scheme on Friday banning troops from vacationing and taking off-installation trips as it is striving to stem the spread of the new coronavirus at barracks. Under the Level 2.5 social distancing guidance at barracks, all service members are not allowed to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A South Korean company has been selected to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) staff officer that would provide analysis and statistical information for decision-making by military commanders. Hanwha Systems Co., a solution provider for defense electronics, recently announced that it was selected as a prime negotiator by the Agency [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will open a two-hour online course for reserve forces next week, the defense ministry said Thursday, after their annual field training was called off due to the coronavirus pandemic. The training sessions for the country’s 2.75 million-strong forces were supposed to kick off in September, but the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A long-standing debate over South Korean women participating in mandatory military service has rekindled following anticipation that the military will face a lack of personnel in 10 years due to the decreasing national population. The country should consider enlisting women for the military, experts argue, if it intends to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Military officials and defense researchers were to hold their first meeting Tuesday to develop core technologies necessary to build and deploy the country’s first light aircraft carrier by 2033, the arms procurement agency said. The military has been pushing to secure the 40,000-ton light aircraft carrier to “proactively respond [...]