South Korea

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

By Chen Chuanren
Korean Air Aerospace Division provides depot level maintenance for the ROKAF F-15.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
South Korea and GA-ASI conducted a demonstration flight of the Mojave uncrewed aircraft system from the ROKN amphibious assault ship LPH-6111 Dokdo.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Under the Seoul Urban Air Mobility dFuture Vision, the city plans to begin by building vertiports at four locations by 2030.
Advanced Air Mobility

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

By Chen Chuanren
South Korea has selected Konan Technology to develop artificial intelligence (AI) software for the country’s future uncrewed air vehicles (UAV).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus presented a model of the proposed aircraft at the Euronaval defense exhibition in Paris, held Nov. 4-7.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Chen Chuanren
South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration has reportedly signed a contract for the purchase of 100 MBDA Meteor air-to-air missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun met Oct. 30 at the Pentagon.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
The A&D industry’s critical minerals supply chain is in a precarious position given its reliance on Chinese imports, panelists say at the Zero Gravity summit.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Matthew Fulco
This event coincided with a worrying escalation by Russia in its 33-month war against Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kim Minseok
South Korea's Agency for Defense Development (ADD) and Hanwha have revealed their new supersonic air-to-ground missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
A new defense market reality is emerging in the country as Tokyo seeks to increase its exports.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kim Minseok
The South Korean military has publicly unveiled the Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, which it claims is the world’s largest ballistic missile armed with a conventional warhead.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By David Casey
Delta Air Lines is adding Seoul to its network from Salt Lake City, starting in June 2025.
Airports & Networks

By Matthew Fulco
Hanwha and its subsidiary Hanwha Defense Australia signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Advanced Navigation.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Kim Minseok
The first mission is planned as early as March 2025.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
The governments have approved a 2.96 trillion won ($2.2 billion) project to regenerate the area around Gimpo.
Advanced Air Mobility

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