Picture of the Day: South Korea to Buy F-35A?
This undated photo, released by The Associated Press, shows the radar-evading F-35A fighter ready to take off at a U.S. air base. South Korea is considering procuring 20 additional F-35A fighters to enhance its wartime strike capabilities, military officials said on Sept. 12, 2016, amid escalating nuclear threats posed by North Korea. (Yonhap)
South Korea would probably be better off buying twice as many FA-50s http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/-fa-50-light-combat-aircraft-south-korea/
Afford a lot more of them, very upgrade-able platform, good for the money. Any, stealth isn’t what it use to be. Russia and China both have systems that can track stealth aircraft. On top of that if you want the F-35 to carry any kind of bomb load it requires external stores, so no more stealth……
They just need to make sure none of the chips or firmware came from China.