SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A district court in Changwon issued a sentence of three months and an additional probational period of one year to a 21-year-old man who was found guilty of insulting two army female supervisors during his military service. During his tenure as a non-commissioned officer within the Korean army, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry on Wednesday announced additional military reform measures, including allowing female troops to gain greater access to combat positions and strengthening rules on political neutrality. The measures are part of efforts to flesh out the Defense Reform 2.0 that the ministry unveiled last Friday to create a [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military will look to incorporate unmanned combat systems into manned units starting as early as 2024 amid a shrinking population, defense ministry sources said Tuesday. The sources said the military studied the effects of forming units mixed with personnel and unmanned weapons earlier this year and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military law-enforcement authorities announced plans Wednesday for tougher punishment against sex offenders amid the spread of the #MeToo movement in the country. In a report to the National Assembly, the Military Court of Korea said it will introduce the so-called “one strike, you’re out” system against soldiers [...]
NORTH CHUNGCHEONG, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Journalists and military personnel rubbed shoulders at the new state of the art training grounds opened in Cheongan County on August 17. The 132,000-square-meter facility is the first of its kind that will be able to accommodate a full battalion of reserve forces and provide the latest in [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s defense ministry said Thursday it has requested a record budget of 43.7 trillion won (US$38.7 billion) for next year, citing growing threats from North Korea and the need for reforming the South’s military under President Moon Jae-in’s campaign pledge. It represents an 8.4 percent increase from 2017. [...]
GANGNEUNG, South Korea, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A forest fire that broke out in Gangwon Province was finally contained Tuesday three days after it ignited and burned 320 hectares of vegetation, the size of 457 football fields. Among the emergency crews deployed to the combat the fire were some 20,000 soldiers, who instead of [...]
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The United States plans to deploy its “strategic” weapons in South Korea on a regular basis in order to thwart North Korea’s threats under an agreement between the allies, Seoul’s defense ministry said Friday. The two sides agreed to push for “measures available in all aspects including the regular [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s defense ministry announced Thursday that an advanced American missile defense system here will soon be put into “actual operation” to counter North Korea’s ballistic missile threats. Hours earlier, Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM), told U.S. congressmen that the THAAD system will become operational [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The competition to join the South Korean military, which recently heightened amid a nation-wide economic downturn and rising youth unemployment, is subsiding with the number of South Korean youth gradually declining. According to the Ministry of National Defense, there were 566,656 young applicants to South Korea’s mandatory military service [...]