South Korea

By Kim Minseok
Seoul is set to acquire WB Electronic's Warmate 1 to promptly bolster its loitering munitions capability.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Ben Goldstein
Swiss startup Jekta has announced an order from South Korean lessor Solyu for 30 of its PHA-ZE 100 hydrogen-electric seaplanes.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Craig Caffrey
Seoul's latest defense budget increase will likely represent a marginal real-terms cut once inflation is factored in.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
The move was confirmed by Kim Kyung-nam, head of KAL Aviation Technology Research Institute.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The South Korean defense ministry is proposing a 3.6% year-on-year spending hike.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
The South Korean National Defense Ministry says the first of its reconnaissance satellites has passed in-orbit testing and is now operational.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S. State Department has approved Seoul's request to purchase 36 Boeing AH-64E combat helicopters, which would double South Korea's Apache fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren, Kim Minseok, Robert Wall
Seoul is preparing its future fighter for near-term service and a long-term evolution.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The engineering and manufacturing development phase is scheduled to be completed by 2027.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The design builds on experience from the Air One vertiport operational demonstration in Coventry, England, in April 2022.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
South Korea has contracted Hanwha Aerospace to mass produce a high-powered directed-energy weapon, which the country hopes to operationalize by year's end.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By David Casey
A new agreement between South Korea and the Philippines increases weekly capacity on flights connecting Seoul and Manila.
Airports & Networks

By Kim Minseok
South Korea has awarded initial production contracts for the KF-21 fighter jet to KAI, Hanwha Aerospace and Hanwha Systems.
Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
Hanwha will integrate its new AESA radar, featuring the "tile" type transmitter/receive (T/R) block design, on to the KUS-LW.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Kim Minseok
The Republic of Korea Air Force retired its F-4 Phantom fleet on June 5 after 55 years of service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Nara Space Technology, a South Korean manufacturer of small satellites, announced on May 31 that it had raised $14.5 million in a Series B fundraising.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Archer Aviation plans to demonstrate its Midnight electric air taxi in South Korea late this year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The Ministry of National Defense’s resource management office introduced policy directions for guided missile operations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Japan and South Korea's civil aviation regulators have agreed to mutually recognize each other’s aviation certifications and approvals.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Craig Caffrey
Seoul's investment in domestically developed systems and technologies is set to expand South Korea’s rapidly growing footprint in global defense export markets.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Brian Everstine
A USAF F-16C crashed shortly after takeoff in South Korea in 2023 after power outages caused a series of failures to instruments in the aircraft’s cockpit.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Hyundai Elevator is to lead a Seoul-funded project to develop a vertiport as part of the Korean Urban Air Mobility (K-UAM) core technology development program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Yonhap News reported that DAPA met with Malaysian Defense Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
A new cost-sharing arrangement on the development of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-21 fighter jet will see Indonesia slash its contribution.
Budget, Policy & Operations