SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea began production of the homegrown KF-21 fighter jet Wednesday, the defense procurement agency said, in the latest milestone in the country’s efforts to build an advanced fighter aircraft. A ceremony marking the assembly of the first KF-21 production model took place at Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI), [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has struck a 1.3 trillion-won (US$939 million) deal to supply weapons, including K-9 self-propelled howitzers, to Romania, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday, the latest in Seoul’s push to clinch major arms export deals. Under the agreement signed Tuesday, South Korean defense giant Hanwha Aerospace will [...]
SEOUL, July 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Hanwha Systems Co., a South Korean defense solutions company, said Tuesday that it has clinched a 1.2 trillion-won (US$866.8 million) deal to supply multi-function radar (MFR) for the Cheongung-II medium-range surface-to-air missile (M-SAM) system, which will be exported to Saudi Arabia. This deal is part of a larger [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean Ministry of National Defense announced on July 3 the launch of a specialized generative artificial intelligence (AI) service for defense operations, accessible through its internal network. Similar to ChatGPT, the popular AI service developed by OpenAI, this new platform allows users to engage in chat-based interactions to [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea’s recent shift from sending propaganda leaflets to launching balloons filled with excrement into South Korea may be seen as an admission of the regime’s vulnerability, but experts warn that this tactic could pose a serious threat if it evolves into a form of terrorism. These observations come from [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The military will expand a squadron-level unit for space operations into the Space Operations Group, the Air Force said Friday, in an effort to raise its operational efficiency in the crucial security domain. A ceremony marking the launch of the group-level unit will take place at Osan Air Base [...]
BRUSSELS/SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s potential arms support for Ukraine should not be viewed on the same footing as North Korea’s suspected delivery of munitions to Russia, given the illegal nature of Russia’s invasion, the chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has said. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg also said [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The defense ministry said Thursday it has decided to ban physical discipline training in boot camp in the wake of the recent death of an Army conscript after a grueling disciplinary session. Last month, the soldier died two days after collapsing during the session that involved running laps and [...]
SEOUL, June 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Marine Corps on Wednesday resumed full-scale live-fire exercises on islands near the tense inter-Korean maritime border for the first time in seven years, following South Korea’s suspension of an inter-Korean pact that had restricted such drills. This resumption follows South Korea’s complete suspension of the 2018 inter-Korean tension [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 25 (Korea Bizwire) –On the 74th anniversary of the Korean War, Hong Joon-pyo, the mayor of Daegu and a former conservative presidential candidate, renewed his call for South Korea to develop its own nuclear arsenal to counter North Korea’s nuclear threat. In a Facebook post on June 25, Hong invoked the example of [...]