SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — About 5,000 South Korean soldiers who worked up a sweat on the frontlines to fight the spread of the coronavirus have been recognized for their ‘honorable experience.’ As a result of deliberations by the three branches of the South Korean armed forces, a total of 13,164 soldiers were recognized [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has identified the remains of two soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War through DNA analysis after they were recovered from former battle sites near the inter-Korean border, the defense ministry said Friday. Pfc. Kim Sung-geun was presumed to have been killed during a battle in 1950 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Soldiers killed during operations to quell a pro-democracy uprising in 1980 have been relabeled as dead on duty from the previous designation of war dead, the defense ministry said Tuesday, amid efforts to set the record straight on the historic revolt. On May 18, 1980, the military junta, led [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry said that a monitoring committee composed of mothers of service members going through mandatory military service visited the Marine Corps’ 1st Division located in the southeastern coastal city of Pohang on Wednesday to monitor the food and clothes provided to the soldiers. The monitoring committee, operating [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Due to delays in the academic calendar and a lack of jobs for soldiers leaving the military following the coronavirus outbreak, an increasing number of service members are taking interest in extending their military service via a special program. The Ministry of National Defense reported that a growing number [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The defense ministry has ordered all service members to wear masks at all times in public, both indoors and outdoors, as part of efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic, officials said Tuesday. Under the rule effective Monday, any gatherings or training involving more than two people are banned unless [...]
INJE, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A military-purpose bridge, which are typically installed temporarily to replace a broken bridge during wartime or to help troops cross a river, has been installed in a remote mountain village in Gangwon Province. About 70 soldiers from the engineer brigade under the Republic of Korea Army 3rd Corps installed [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Rank-and-file soldiers will officially be allowed to use their mobile phones after work starting next month, the defense ministry said Friday. Since April 2019, the ministry has allowed all draftees to use mobile phones, which had previously been banned for security reasons, on a trial basis. “The trial implementation [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The military will begin allowing enlisted service members to go on vacation this week after months of restrictions, amid signs of a slowdown in the spread of the new coronavirus, the defense ministry said Monday. All enlisted service personnel have been banned from off-base trips in principle since Feb. [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The defense ministry has temporarily allowed service personnel to have video calls with families and friends as part of efforts to help them reduce stress as they have been banned from leaving their bases or meeting visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic. Soldiers have been banned from off-base traveling, [...]