SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will deploy 12 additional maritime choppers by 2022 to better counter growing North Korean submarine threats, the state defense procurement agency said Tuesday. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) said the military plans to invest about 900 billion won (US$768 million) to pick a helicopter model for [...]
CHEONGJU, South Korea, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – For the first time in the 13 years since 2004, a South Korean court has ruled that a reservist who said no to reserve training is innocent. Judge Lee Hyung-gul from the Cheongju District Court ruled Sunday that a 34-year-old man identified as Yoo was innocent of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to install unmanned vigilance equipment at major military posts to complement surveillance soldiers in line with an expected reduction in the troop numbers, the state defense acquisition agency said Monday. The military will gradually put up high-definition security cameras and attach infiltration detection equipment to barbed [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Skyrocketing egg prices resulting from Korea’s record bird flu outbreak are now affecting the diet of 640,000 soldiers, with egg supply plummeting in recent weeks. The National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, Nonghyup, is currently responsible for all eggs provided to the military, but had to reduce its supply by roughly [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will this year launch a special unit tasked with incapacitating North Korea’s wartime leadership, two years ahead of schedule, its defense chief said Wednesday, as it strives to better counter Pyongyang’s evolving military threats. During its New Year policy briefing to Acting President and Prime Minister Hwang [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Republic of Korea Navy carried out its first maritime drill of 2017 on Monday with some 20 warships, including its newest 2,500-ton frigates, 1,000-ton patrol vessels, and 130-ton attack boats, participating. According to officials, the drills, which took place on all three – western, eastern, southern – coastal [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s historic bird flu outbreak has led to the culling of over 28 million poultry. And while officials are struggling to secure the necessary manpower for the mass culling efforts, the military has so far been reluctant to offer a hand by mobilizing its troops to help out with [...]
INJE, South Korea, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Serving at the very eastern frontline of the South Korean military are a father and his son, guarding the barbed-wire fence that dissects the Korean Peninsula, just an inch outside of the infamous Demilitarized Zone. Lee In-wook, a 51-year-old sergeant major, serves in the 12th Infantry Division, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean appeals court on Wednesday ordered the government to disclose the results of a probe on pollution detected in the water table near a U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) garrison in Seoul. The U.S. Army base in Yongsan, central Seoul, has been suspected as the source of oil [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Defense is teaming up with the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning for a big data research project that will make use of the medical information of 600,000 South Korean military personnel. Dubbed the “Military Personnel Medical Information Big Data Study”, the three-year project taking [...]