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South Korean Military Creates Non-Smoking Units
» by GI Korea July 6th, 2011 at 10:49 pm » Comments (30)
This is an unusual way to combat smoking by creating non-smoking units: The military has declared a war on smoking, unveiling an ambitious plan to lower its service members' smoking rate ...more »South Korea Ends Military Exchange Ties With Taiwan, Sort Of….
» by GI Korea May 8th, 2011 at 6:05 pm » Comments (30)
Despite the headlines of South Korea severing military exchange ties to Taiwan it appears that this is not really the case. Rather it just more smoke and mirrors to ...more »ROK Air Force Looks To Add Stealth Capabilities
» by GI Korea April 12th, 2011 at 5:59 pm » Comments (12)
It makes me wonder with North Korea's antiquated air defense systems if stealth capabilities are really needed for the ROK Air Force or does this announcement have more to do ...more »Ex-ROK Air Force Colonel Arrested For Leaking Information
» by GI Korea April 2nd, 2011 at 8:33 pm » Comments (6)
It would help if Yonhap published who he was leaking information to?: Prosecutors said Saturday that they have arrested a retired Air Force colonel on charges of stealing confidential information ...more »Picture of the Day: President Lee In UAE
» by GI Korea March 13th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (10)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (C) poses with members of the South Korean special forces unit, named "Ahk," on March 12 during his official visit to ...more »Picture of the Day: Joint Commissioning
» by GI Korea March 11th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (11)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="At the joint commissioning ceremony for officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force held Friday at Gyeryong-dae, a total of 5,309 new officers, including 123 ...more »Could China Steal Global Hawk Technology From South Korea?
» by GI Korea March 11th, 2011 at 3:48 am » Comments (15)
Long time readers may remember that the South Korean government under former President Roh Moo-hyun were interested in buy the US high altitude UAV called the Global Hawk: However, the US ...more »Sweeping Reforms Announced For ROK Military
» by GI Korea March 10th, 2011 at 4:26 pm » Comments (5)
These are some interesting reforms that were announced: Defense Minister Kim Kwan-jin unveiled a set of sweeping military reform packages Tuesday to enhance the interoperability of the armed forces ...more »US & Korea Air Defense Soldiers Conduct Joint Training Exercise
» by GI Korea February 17th, 2011 at 5:54 pm » Comments (2)
It is always good to see a joint training exercise between US and Korean Soldiers: U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Seong Kim proudly watched his Soldiers executing the Patriot missile reload drill. Through ...more »South Korea Wants to Increase Range of Missiles
» by GI Korea January 19th, 2011 at 7:12 pm » Comments (6)
The South Koreans are still busy trying to get their missile agreement with the US revised: Seoul and Washington have started talks to revise a bilateral accord that limits South ...more »
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