More Females Are Serving in Leadership Roles in the ROK Military
It is good to see that more women are able to advance their careers in the ROK military:
When it comes to promoting gender equality in military barracks, some might think it is about giving preferential treatment to female personnel.
Kang Seo-yeon, a chief petty officer of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy, realized this after an article spotlighting her service received comments to such effect online.
“After all, we are all service members whether we are male or female,” Kang said. “Female NCOs in the military can often be seen as a special case when they should rather be seen as competent, just like their male colleagues.”
For Navy service personnel, serving in a remote area or on a ship on a maritime mission helps their careers. While her husband is also a Navy chief petty officer serving on the ROKS Chungbuk (FFG-816) in the Second Fleet based at Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province, Kang chose to serve at a naval base on Deokjeok Island off the western coast of Incheon this year ― her 11th in the Navy. Before enlisting in the Navy she served four years in the Army as she always wanted to be in the military after graduating from high school.
Kang, now raising her four-year-old son on Deokjeok Island, said she can balance her work and childcare through the military’s childcare support policies.
In South Korea, all able-bodied men must serve 18 to 22 months in the military but no mandatory military service is required of women. They can join the military as non-commissioned, or commissioned officer if they graduate from military academies or pass national qualification tests to join the military.
Media focus on female personnel has often been on them taking certain positions for the first time that had not been “allowed” before, largely due to the perception that women would find it hard to serve on such missions.
Korea Times
You can read more at the link about various female servicemembers that have filled leadership roles for the first time in the ROK military.
The ROK Army is a joke. If your a female and you join, your automatically a Non-Commissioned Officer….let that sink in…..
Did you miss the bit about passing the qualification test or graduating from a military academy. Female NCOs and commissioned officers of the ROK Army and Navy I’ve met were not “jokes”.
The graduating from a military academy is for female officer.
I am talking about NCOs, if a female enlist in the ROK military she automatically becomes a NCO. Every ROK female I met was a massive joke, not sure what your on about.
I know that, David. My point is that it’s not as automatic as you make it seem. The female must pass a particular test to enter at that level. If she does not pass the test, she does not enter. And I’m on about the ones I’ve met were not jokes. Maybe you should hang out with better examples of soldiers.
My KATUSA roommates told me in the 1980s women had to be brought in as NCOs or officers because as women they would not survive the rigors of being lower enlisted in the ROK Army. I understood this was stated as fact not opinion.
Doc, after 20 years of marriage to a Korean, my opinion is they like being in charge. And although I have no experience with RoK NCOs, I imagine the men would have literally no idea how to treat Korean women in boot camp. They’re not culturally trained for it any more than any other Asian culture.
Creating an artificial process to create women NCOs is actually a progressive thing.
Now one wonders about the trannies wanting a Sgt uniform… will they require post-op or just allow men who self-identify as women?
And what if they change their minds a year later? Will they still be NCOs?
I’m guessing we’ll need more popcorn.