The government's plan to purchase 36 additional AH-64 Apache attack helicopters is likely to be scrapped after a massive budget cut, a lawmaker noted on Sunday.
A parent’s demand for a grade change for their child at Seoul National University has stirred public criticism over academic boundaries and parental overreach, after a teaching assistant revealed the incident online.
The government has approved a plan to allocate 870 billion won ($608 million) to purchase new presidential helicopters with enhanced survivability, the state arms procurement agency said Wednesday.
A firefighting helicopter crashed in Daegu on Sunday, killing a 74-year-old pilot. The accident occurred just 11 days after a similar crash during the wildfire response in North Gyeongsang.
A helicopter crashed on Sunday while fighting a wildfire on a mountain in Daegu earlier the same day, with the pilot presumed dead, according to local fire authorities.
A total of 29 specialized and high-performance fire engines manufactured by Mercedes-Benz emerged as powerful tools in containing the recent wildfires that devastated the country's southeastern region.
A firefighting helicopter crashed in North Gyeongsang while fighting wildfires. Its pilot was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Army on Thursday received the first model of the homegrown Light Armed Helicopter (LAH) as part of its efforts to modernize the fleet of aging helicopters, the state defense procurement agency said.
More and more Korean parents are increasingly interfering in their grown-up children’s work lives, a phenomenon referred to as "overparenting."
North Korea condemned the recent U.S. approval to sell additional Apache attack helicopters to South Korea as a "reckless provocative act of deliberately increasing the security instability" in the region.
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