SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Navy looks set to embark on a long-cherished project next year to secure a light aircraft carrier, as the National Assembly passed a 7.2 billion won (US$6.1 million) budget for the project Friday in a reversal of an earlier move to slash it. The legislature passed the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Navy has unveiled a three-dimensional rendering of an envisioned light aircraft carrier in a show of its resolve to build the warship by 2033 amid lingering doubts over its feasibility and necessity. After five months of preparations, the Navy posted the six-minute clip depicting the carrier strike [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy received an upgraded destroyer on Friday, after more than a year of refurbishment aimed at bolstering anti-submarine and other capabilities, the state arms procurement agency said. The 3,200-ton Gwanggaeto the Great destroyer was handed over to the Navy, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration said, as South Korea [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea launched a new 5,600-ton-class submarine rescue vessel Thursday capable of conducting rescue operations in the deep sea regardless of weather conditions, the Navy said. A launch ceremony for the vessel, named Ganghwado, took place at the Okpo shipyard of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., on the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The Navy held a launching ceremony Wednesday for a new 2,800-ton frigate with improved anti-submarine capabilities. The new warship Pohang is the sixth of the country’s FFX Batch II frigates to replace the Navy’s 1,500-ton frigates and 1,000-ton patrol combat corvettes, according to the military. The ceremony was held [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Naval Academy has changed its official policy to allow first-year cadets to engage in relationships. The academy announced Thursday that the revised code of conduct will take effect in September at the start of the second semester. The academy earlier banned first-year cadets from engaging in relationships [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Navy on Friday received the country’s first 3,000-ton-class indigenous submarine capable of firing submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) to bolster underwater defense capabilities, officials said. The commissioning ceremony for the mid-class diesel air-independent propulsion submarine, named after prominent South Korean independence fighter Dosan Ahn Chang-ho, took place at the [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s new 14,500-ton amphibious assault ship will be deployed in October with improved combat capabilities developed with the country’s own technologies, the military said Monday. Navy Chief of Staff Adm. Boo Suk-jong presided over a commissioning ceremony for the landing platform helicopter (LPH) ship Marado at the southern [...]
GANGNEUNG, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A decommissioned naval vessel, once a prized resource for tourism that local authorities competed over, will be returned to the South Korean Navy. The city of Gangneung in Gangwon Province recently notified the Navy that ROKS Jeonbuk, a decommissioned naval destroyer currently displayed in Gangneung Unification Park as part [...]
DONGHAE, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Navy’s 1st Fleet is stepping up to help service members overcome the so-called ‘corona blues’ as the COVID-19 pandemic drags on. The fleet has allowed troops to engage in physical training after 4 p.m. every day to look after their health while adhering to quarantine regulations. [...]