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Republic of Korea Army's Advancement and Military Family History

Changguk Hong 1

1대전대학교

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ABSTRACT

Professional Soldiers' wives require abilities in variety of areas where their husbands are not available due to the peculiarities of their job requirements. Living in an isolated environment, worse living conditions,frequent moving, poor housing, lack of support in child education and care, and limited medical service and lack of leisure facilities,with their husbands serving 24 hours as commanders, administrators, and instructors,they have to be experts in maintaining households The improvement of the Republic of Korea Army today owes much to the military families. Few people seem to recognize the sacrifices and sufferings of the military families, who contributed greatly to intangible combat power and to Republic of Korea Army’s advancement into internationally recognized strong army through six decades. However, it is undeniable truth that while there are researches on the Korean army, there are not much researches on the military families. Just like women’s study, the researches on military families have been neglected. Finding the data and source materials on the Republic of Korea Army’s military families will provide the basis for the future researches help making the political decisions on the military. Therefore this study on the Republic of Korea Army’s advancementin history will be divided into the followings; establishmen to fthe ROK(1945~1949) and the development of National Defense Position(1991~present).Through these timeline,data and sources on military families will be analyzed to find changes in them. Through this research, hopefully, correct understanding of military families will be possible and this will contribute to the future studies on the military.

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