Education and Training Policy

Creative military experts with the appropriate Technical skills and leadership

The MND is striving to cultivate creative military experts well versed in specialized military knowledge. Throughout the national Defense training and education system, the MND is increasing its efforts to train strong warriors and, in turn, strong military by simulating realistic combat situations to ensure our Armed Forces is an unstoppable force against any enemy.

Fostering human resources well-suited to their positions and missions

Officer training and obligatory service period

Officer traning and obligatory service period
Classification	Training period	Obligatory service period
Military Academy	Four years	Ten years
Nursing Academy	Four years	Six years
Third Military Academy	Two years	Six years
ROTC	Two years	Army: Two years and four months Navy: Two years Air Force: Three years
Officers with Bachelor’s Degree	16 weeks	Three years
OCS	10-14 weeks	Three years
Women’s Corps	16 weeks	Three years
RNTC	One year and six months	Three years

Officers for special MOS (JAG, surgeons, veterinarian, chaplains, interpreters, communications, army band, etc.) : Seven to nine weeks of training, three-year service period.

National defense training and education system

National defense training and education system
Classification	Military Education		Human Resources		Unit Training
Classification	Candidate Training	Refresher Training	Professional Military Education	Capability Development Education	Individual Training	Group Training
Officer	Military Academies	Officer’ Basic Course	Special Degree Education	Degree Acquisition	Basic Training	Basic Training
	Military Academies	Officer's Advanced Course				Basic Training
	ROTC OCS	Joint Forces Military University				Joint Training
	Millitary Scholarship Student	Korea National Defense University	Foreign Military Education Exchange	Job-Specific Skill Development		Joint Training
NCO	NCO Academies	Beginner’s Class	Foreign Military Education Exchange	Job-Specific Skill Development	Military Occupational Speciality(MOS) Training	Joint Training
	NCO Academies	Intermediate Class	Elevation Training	Elementary Knowledge Training		Joint Training
	NCO Candidates	Advanced Class				Combined Training
	NCO Candidates	Administrator Class				Combined Training

Military Education: Divided into candidate training that transforms civilians into officers and NCOs, and refreshment training that develops servicemen and women’s capacity to perform their military duties.

Human Resources Development: Divided into professional military education and capability development education. Professional military education cultivates military experts capable of spearheading the efforts to establish a technologically intensive military structure, and capability improvement education focuses on increasing the values of officers in their respective areas of expertise, interest and potential.

Unit Training: Divided into individual training and group training aimed at fostering combat capabilities.; Development of IT-based scientific training systems to maximize the integrated capabilities of various components on the battlefield.