SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Army revealed yesterday that it was activating a heat wave response division in order to better prepare the military for the scorching heat in addition to providing aid to the general public. Army officials also stated that the response division had activated level 1 as of August [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — As early as next year, South Korea’s Armed Forces may begin testing drones in artificial combat settings, a sign that a fourth industrial revolution-influenced form of warfare is creeping ever closer. At the three-day “dronebot” expo being held at the Sejong Convention Center, the Army laid out its plans [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Army said Friday it will select soldiers next year to serve in the envisioned “dronebot combat unit,” which it describes as a potential game changer in warfare. The Army will create a related military occupational specialty (MOS) in the coming year. It stopped short of revealing the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Army plans to develop a combat uniform with new camouflage patterns and advanced functions, a military source said. The new uniform will replace the current digitally patterned one, adopted in 2008, to help ground troops better adjust to a changing warfare environment. The development started as part [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — An Army soldier, who was wounded in a firing accident involving a K-9 self-propelled howitzer in Gangwon Province last month, died in a hospital on Wednesday, the Army said. The death of Wie Dong-min, a 20-year-old sergeant, raised the number of victims to three in an explosion of a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The assembly of the first prototype Light Armed Helicopter (LAH), which is under development using South Korean domestic technology, has begun. “The assembly unit at the headquarters of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) will commence assembly of the first LAH prototype,” announced the Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) on [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea remained 11th in the world in terms of military strength this year, ahead of North Korea at 23rd, an annual military power index showed. The South had a firepower index of 0.2804, right behind Italy’s 0.2772, according to the Global Firepower (GFP) 2017, which took over 50 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Yu-chun, a member of the popular boy band JYJ, will enlist in the Army Thursday for his mandatory military service. Park will enter a boot camp in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province, for five weeks of basic training before starting his military service as a public agent, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s 30th Mechanized Infantry Division has recently introduced a competition called ‘Best Warrior,’ in which 4 ‘Best Warriors’ are selected through an ‘infernal’ three day competition with no sleep, among 70 executive army officers in the division. The competition has been presented by the division in order to set [...]
CHUNCHEON, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Discharged military watch dogs will be adopted by non-military individuals for the first time in Korea. According to an announcement from the First Republic of Korea Army (FROKA) on April 21, 50 military dogs were discharged from service on April 22, and will be adopted by civilians at no cost. [...]