Dr. Lee Cook-jong, who saved a wounded freighter captain shot by Somali pirates and gunshot North Korean defector, was appointed as the director of the Armed Forces Hospital in Daejeon on Wednesday.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Seoul on Monday for talks with his South Korean counterpart over deterrence against North Korean nuclear and missile threats, and other security issues, officials here said.
Lee Ki-sik, commissioner of the Military Manpower Administration, said on Monday that the administration was “reviewing the military service exemption for BTS from various aspects” and that “for now, we are looking at the matter within the overall...
The outgoing and incoming presidents are clashing over the relocation of the presidential office to the Ministry of National Defense building in Yongsan in central Seoul.
Military prosecutors indicted 10 people for sexual assault, intimidation, evidence destruction and defamation after the suicide of an Air Force officer who was sexually harassed.
Prosecutors retrieved Tuesday a transcript of a phone call made to the Ministry of National Defense to request an extension of a medical leave for Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae’s son in 2017, according to sources.
It has been found that Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae, a former judge, and her husband, an active lawyer, pressured the Ministry of National Defense to help extend their son’s sick leave during his military service in 2017, when...
South Korea will resume its ongoing project to excavate the remains of its fallen troops from the 1950-53 Korean War after delays brought on by the coronavirus outbreak, announced its Ministry of National Defense Wednesday.
Military discipline has hit rock bottom. The range of misconduct is too varied to mention it all ? ranging from a professor of the Air Force Academy assaulting a student cadet to an army senior who beat a female officer with a shovel.
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