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 [...]
PYEONGTAEK, South Korea, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The Republic of Korea Navy has just completed a memorial commemorating the 46 soldiers lost in the sinking of the ROKS Cheonan warship. An exhaustive investigation revealed that on the night of March 26, 2010, the ship was hit by a North Korean torpedo, although North Korea [...]
GEOJE, South Korea, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea launched its eighth 1,800-ton “KSS-II” submarine on Tuesday dubbed the Lee Beom-seok, named after a renowned independence movement fighter during the Japanese colonial rule, who served as a prime minister and defense minister after the Japanese occupation ended. The ship is scheduled for deployment in [...]
GEOJE Island, South Korea, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., a major South Korean shipbuilder, launched a 1,400-ton diesel submarine on Monday for the Indonesian navy, a company official said. The submarine is the second of the three submarines being built under a 2011 deal worth US$1.1 billion. In March, [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The Esmeralda (BE-43) is the world’s longest sailing ship, and it made port at a naval base in the Korean city of Busan Tuesday morning. Weighing 3,763 tons, the Esmeralda was commissioned in 1954, and currently serves as a training ship for the Chilean Navy. The vessel is 110 [...]
Muan, South Korea, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The Battle of Myeongnyang, which took place on October 25, 1697, was a historic naval battle between the Korean and Japanese navies during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592 – 1598). Led and won by Admiral Yi Sun-sin, the battle was considered a last stand that would determine [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – KT Corp., South Korea’s second-largest mobile carrier by sales, said Friday it has set up networks for Wi-Fi connections in 20 of the Navy’s submarines to allow sailors access to the internet. The Wi-Fi networks will help Navy soldiers aboard submarines participate in online information communication technology education programs [...]
PYEONGTAEK, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) – On June 29, 2002, South and North Korean patrol boats clashed along a disputed maritime boundary (the Northern Limit Line) near Yeonpyeong Island, in Korea’s West Sea. The confrontation led to a naval battle that resulted in the sinking of one South Korean patrol boat, while six sailors were wounded [...]
BUSAN, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – On Jun 21, three naval vessels from the Indian Navy made port at the dock of the Naval Operational Command in Busan after participating in a combined military exercise with the United States. And today, June 23, three other naval ships, this time from the Chinese Navy, also arrived [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea plans to conduct military exercises in waters near its easternmost islets of Dokdo later this week, a military official said Tuesday, in the latest warning against Japan over its repeated territorial claims to the islets. The drills are set to begin later this week and involve navy destroyers, [...]