SEOUL, March 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean and U.S. special commandos are conducting “realistic” combined drills here, involving AC-130J and MC-130J warplanes, to strengthen the “ironclad” security commitment between the allies, a U.S. official said Tuesday. The Exercise Teak Knife kicked off a monthlong run early this month, according to Capt. Kimberly Chatto, director [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — J-Hope, a member of K-pop supergroup BTS, has canceled his request to delay enlistment, the group’s agency said Sunday, in a move to join the country’s mandatory military service. BigHit Music did not provide a specific time frame on when he will join the military, saying only it will [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea and the United States staged combined counter-drone drills at a U.S. air base in a southwestern city last week, U.S. military photos showed Sunday, as Seoul seeks to reinforce readiness following North Korea’s drone incursions late last year. Posted on the Pentagon’s Defense Visual Information Distribution Service [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea plans to stage nationwide civil air defense drills in May for the first time in six years, its military said Wednesday, in a move to reinforce public safety amid evolving North Korean nuclear and missile threats. The Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said the plan and other [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Military and police personnel resumed a search Wednesday for a presumed civilian drone thought to have crashed after flying near a U.S. THAAD missile defense unit in a southern county the previous day, officials said. The authorities are conducting the search in areas close to the base in Seongju, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s military plans to restore its field training for reserve forces to pre-pandemic levels this year, the defense ministry said Tuesday, after three years of coronavirus-driven suspension or reduction. Starting from March 2, the field drills will proceed in a full-scale format, according to the ministry. They were [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean military deployed fighter jets in recent days in response to radar sightings of unidentified objects wrongly assumed to be drones from North Korea. On Wednesday morning, an unknown object was detected by radar, with the military scrambling fighter jets on standby to Incheon and northern Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state arms procurement agency signed a 30 billion-won (US$23 million) contract with a local firm Monday to develop an advanced counter-artillery radar system by 2026, officials said. The Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) inked the deal with LIG Nex1 for the project aimed at replacing aging radars [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will embark on a 190 billion-won (US$146 million) project Monday to locally develop a long-range air-to-ground guided missile by 2028, the state arms procurement agency said. The missile, which will be the country’s first domestically developed air-launched one, is to be fitted onto the homegrown KF-21 fighter [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A man who chose not to serve in the military based on his religious beliefs has been acquitted of the charges he faced. The Daejeon District Court overruled the appeal from the prosecution that charged a 26-year-old man with violation of the Military Service Act and pronounced him to [...]