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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean soldiers picked ‘leave’ as the most desired gift for Christmas this year. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Defense Daily of 1,194 service members, 16.6 percent or 199 of the respondents picked military leave as the Christmas gift they wanted the most. In an open-ended [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean soldiers deployed overseas celebrated the Chuseok holiday with various activities but without events inviting guests due to coronavirus concerns, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Monday. This year’s Chuseok, the Korean autumn harvest celebration and one of the biggest holidays in the country, falls on Tuesday, [...]
SEOUL, April 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite about 10 years having passed since a soldier died at an army training center due to a delay in treatment of cerebral meningitis in 2011, South Korea still appears to have a long way to go to improve its military medical system. According to a report released by [...]