SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A North Korean soldier crossed the border into South Korea early Tuesday in the latest defection amid Seoul’s propaganda campaign in response to Pyongyang’s s repeated launches of trash-carrying balloons. The South Korean military detected the soldier from north of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) within the Demilitarized Zone [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s Veterans Minister Park Min-shik has delivered to the family of a decorated U.S. solider, killed in the 1950-53 Korean War, soil from the site where his remains were excavated, the minister’s office said Thursday. The event honoring late Cpl. Luther H. Story took place at the Wall [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Chilgok County Mayor Kim Jae-wook on Wednesday posted a photo of a fallen hero of the 1950-53 Korean War on social media, moving the hearts of many. The deceased soldier in the photo was found crouching after being shot. The soldier’s boots were still in good condition. The soldier [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s first transgender soldier on Wednesday pleaded to be allowed to continue to serve after the military decided to discharge her. Byun Hee-soo, an Army staff sergeant in her 20s, voluntarily enlisted as a man in 2017 and underwent sex reassignment surgery in Thailand in November last year. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Army said Wednesday it decided not to allow a noncommissioned officer who underwent sex reassignment surgery to continue to serve in the military as a female soldier. The decision was made in a military committee meeting that looked into the case of Byun Hee-soo, a 22-year-old staff sergeant [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An Army non-commissioned officer underwent gender reassignment surgery last year and has expressed a desire to continue to serve in the military as a female solider, officers said Thursday. The serviceperson, whose identity was withheld, visited a foreign country while on furlough last year for the surgery. After an [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — A district court in Changwon issued a sentence of three months and an additional probational period of one year to a 21-year-old man who was found guilty of insulting two army female supervisors during his military service. During his tenure as a non-commissioned officer within the Korean army, the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) said on August 27 that the first recruitment for long-term Non-Commissioned Officers(NCOs) drew 2,155 applicants for 255 vacancies – each applicant having an average of 8.5 competitors. According to army officials, the longer service period coupled with the worsening job market have boosted [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The monthly wages of conscripted soldiers will be doubled from their 2012 levels by 2017, as the defense ministry aims to raise the monthly wage of a corporal to 195,800 won (US$180). The Ministry of National Defense released its mid-term national defense plan on April 20, which details the wage [...]