SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean soldiers prefer empathetic superiors, while military officers favor leaders with strong organizational skills, according to a new personality-based survey released by Kookbang Ilbo (The Defense Daily) on Thursday. The survey, conducted between May 28 and June 13 via the military’s internal intranet system, gathered responses from 3,445 [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Some 600 North Korean soldiers are believed to have been killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine, South Korea’s spy agency told lawmakers Wednesday, adding that more than 4,000 North Korean soldiers have been also wounded. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) gave the assessment during a closed-door briefing for the [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s acknowledgment of its troop dispatch to Russia to support its war in Ukraine will not affect South Korea’s efforts to accept North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine if they wish to defect to the South, a foreign ministry official said Tuesday. Two North Korean soldiers have been [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT and the Ministry of Defense jointly announced the launch of a digital mental health service for soldiers starting on Monday. The service was developed by upgrading and reconfiguring the “digital wellness” service currently under development at Hanyang University, with support from the ICT [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs said it has launched a public-private joint program to support the adolescent children of soldiers and police officers who died on duty. The ministry on Wednesday held a signing ceremony for the Heroes Family Program with the Woomi Hope Foundation and Child [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Active-duty soldiers in charge of mine disposal are suffering from exceptionally low wages, which aren’t even being paid properly. “There are service members in charge of mine disposal here,” a service member working at an Army base in Incheon, just west of Seoul, said on a Facebook page that [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A trio of foreign heroes praised for saving more than 30 lives from last Saturday’s tragic crowd crush in Seoul turned out to be American soldiers stationed in South Korea, some survivors said Thursday. One of the survivors, known only as a twentysomething man living in Cheongju, central South [...]
SEOUL, April 29 (Korea Bizwire) — After the presidential transition team confirmed plans to raise soldiers’ monthly salary to 2 million won (US$1,574), a group of low-ranking public servants made a strong appeal to improve their labor conditions. “All of the nation’s public servants work hard and have tough times today due to COVID-19,” said [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The top New Year’s resolution among soldiers currently serving was earning ‘vocational qualifications’. The Defense Media Agency conducted a survey of 744 service members, 44.7 percent of whom expressed interest in vocational study. Service members were interested in acquiring national qualification certificates for languages as well as other vocational [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — An unfriendly letter that a high school girl wrote to a soldier in the mandatory military service surprised many this week, not only because of the letter’s sarcastic tone but also due to the fact that the practice of having students send thank-you letters to troops still exists. In [...]