This is a pretty cool training exercise, but you would think the Canadians would have been able to send more than just 44 Soldiers for this training:

Army troops of South Korea and Canada launched joint high-tech military drills in South Korea for the first time earlier this week, officials said Friday, as part of efforts to bolster bilateral military ties between the two nations.

The 11-day exercise, which runs through April 30, is under way at the Korea Combat Training Center (KCTC), a facility employing advanced technologies for realistic ground drills, in the mountainous county of Inje, some 125 kilometers northeast of Seoul, according to Army officials.

A group of 44 soldiers from the Canadian Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, an Army regiment that served in the 1950-53 Korean War, has been deployed to train alongside South Korean troops from the 7th Infantry Division.

The joint training comes as the Canadian troops visited South Korea to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a key battle that took place in the northern county of Gapyeong in April 1951 at the height of the three-year war.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but I also recommend reading my prior posting about Canadian troops that fought in the Battle of Kapyong:

The Unification Minister really stepped in it, but he will likely face no consequences since he is a committed leftist. You can say many things about the Korean left, but one thing they do well is stick together so I doubt anything will happen to Chung Dong-young for the leak. This is likely why USFK is taking this action since the Korean government is taking no action to address this issue:

The United States has restricted South Korea’s access to intelligence related to North Korea’s nuclear facilities in protest over the unification minister’s disclosure of the country’s uranium enrichment facility in Kusong, sources said Monday.

The South Korean military has claimed its readiness posture remains unhindered by Washington’s decision, but concerns remain over a potential vacuum in Seoul’s surveillance capabilities against the North.

The U.S. has restricted information sharing with Seoul on the North’s nuclear facilities collected via satellites, including on a facility located in the western city of Kusong.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link.

Kim Keon-hee is going to be in jail for far longer than she served as First Lady. Was pursuing politics with her husband worth this?:

 An appeals court on Tuesday increased the sentence for former first lady Kim Keon Hee from 20 months to four years in prison on corruption charges.

The Seoul High Court handed down the sentence during a hearing that was televised live, after finding her partially guilty of involvement in a stock price manipulation scheme and guilty of accepting luxury gifts from the Unification Church.

It acquitted her, however, of receiving free opinion poll results from a self-proclaimed power broker, upholding the lower court’s ruling.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link.

There is probably a lot worse abuse then a face slap going on in these South Korean companies employing foreign workers:

A video showing a Bangladeshi worker being assaulted at a factory in Incheon has sparked public outrage, prompting a government response and a police investigation.

Authorities are looking into the case, and civic groups are calling for stronger structural measures to prevent repeated abuse of migrant workers. The incident comes shortly after another case involving a Thai worker, deepening concerns over the treatment of migrant workers in Korea.

Korea Herald

You can read more at the link.

If China is unhappy about this defense cooperation this should be a sign to India that the products they are receiving are high quality. The Chinese would not be complaining if South Korea was selling them junk equipment:

China would see India’s attempt to expand defense industry cooperation with South Korea in artillery and anti-aircraft guns as “inevitably sensitive” given Beijing’s border dispute with New Delhi in the Himalayas, according to analysts.

After meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday as part of his three-day visit to India, South Korean President Lee Jae Myung announced that Seoul and Delhi had agreed to upgrade their economic cooperation, focusing on vital sectors such as shipbuilding, defense and artificial intelligence.

Lee said South Korea fully backed India’s “Atmanirbhar Bharat” or self-reliant India policy and hoped to “actively” support the production and operation of Indian defense equipment and discuss cooperation such as in technology development.

Korea Times

You can read more at the link.