{"id":53216,"date":"2023-09-27T21:16:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T19:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=53216"},"modified":"2024-09-27T00:06:37","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:06:37","slug":"south-korea-paraded-a-warship-through-central-seoul-with-augmented-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/09\/27\/south-korea-paraded-a-warship-through-central-seoul-with-augmented-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea paraded a warship through central Seoul with augmented reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of its Armed Forces Day on Tuesday with a grand parade in central Seoul.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/08\/south-korea-shows-the-runway-tests-of-its-alternative-to-the-f-35-kai-kf-21-boramae\/\">South Korea shows the runway tests of its alternative to the F-35: KAI KF-21 Boramae<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/11\/18\/f-35a-and-f-16c-the-air-response-of-south-korea-and-the-us-to-threats-from-north-korea\/\">F-35A and F-16C: the air response of South Korea and the US to threats from North Korea<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>The parade was brought forward a few days, since <strong>RoK Armed Forces Day is celebrated on October 1<\/strong>. The advance could have been due to <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.yna.co.kr\/view\/ASP20230927002700883?section=national\/index\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the celebration of Chuseok<\/a>, the Korean autumn festival, the local equivalent of the US Thanksgiving, which began today and this year connects six holidays in a row. The parade, which was somewhat lackluster due to the rain, was attended by <strong>3,700 South Korean soldiers and 300 American soldiers<\/strong>, symbolizing the close military alliance between both countries.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\uac74\uad70 75\uc8fc\ub144 \uad6d\uad70\uc758 \ub0a0 \ud558\uc774\ub77c\uc774\ud2b8! \uba85\uc7a5\uba74 \ubaa8\uc74c.zip| \ub300\ud55c\ubbfc\uad6d \uad6d\ubc29\ubd80\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUOswFLhkMw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Unlike North Korea, where military parades are frequent, <strong>this is the first military parade to be held in South Korea in ten years<\/strong>. The parade was somewhat atypical by Western standards. As you can see in the summary published by the Ministry of Defense of South Korea, on these lines, <strong>the celebration included a demonstration of martial arts<\/strong>, a practice deeply rooted in that country. The parade also had a very festive and happy atmosphere, with the soldiers greeting the public, as we can see in this video from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@ SeoulWalker\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Seoul Walker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"South Korea Military Parade in Seoul City | 75th Armed Forces Day 4K HDR\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BokEoZxqHM0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As happens in military parades in other countries, <strong>this event included aircraft and ground vehicles<\/strong>, showing the latest from South Korea's thriving defense industry, including K2 Black Panther battle tanks, K9 self-propelled howitzers Thunder, missiles, etc. <strong>A great display of force<\/strong> in the face of growing threats from the communist dictatorship of North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that <strong>the Republic of Korea Navy also participated and a naval force has never done so in a land parade<\/strong> in a city that does not have access to the sea. Since it is impossible to parade a real warship through Seoul, <strong>in the parade one of the three Sejong the Great Class destroyers was displayed using augmented reality<\/strong>, as we can see in this video from the channel South Korean A News starting at 45:59 (I've embedded the video so it starts playing at that point):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ev-lhQqoHUA?si=UeOrJTEU66PZpa2v&amp;start=2759\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>The ship displayed in the parade is the ROKS Jeongjo the Great DDG-995<\/strong>, a ship that was launched on July 28, 2022 at the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard. Her delivery to the Republic of Korea Navy is expected in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53218232909_670f306610_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>This ship will be the first of the second phase of the Sejong the Great Class<\/strong>, whose first phase is made up of three ships currently in service. The new phase, made up of three other units, will have the advanced Aegis radar system.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53218232939_f6ac08d500_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Currently, the South Korean Navy has a considerable fleet<\/strong> consisting of 2 amphibious aircraft carriers, 12 destroyers, 15 frigates, 5 corvettes, 69 patrol vessels, 8 landing ships, 7 hovercrafts, 13 mine anti-mine vessels, 20 submarines and 20 auxiliary vessels. <strong>In addition, its air force has 68 aircraft:<\/strong> 21 fixed-wing aircraft and 47 helicopters.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53218156323_2e07489773_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republic of Korea celebrated the 75th anniversary of its Armed Forces Day on Tuesday with a grand parade in central Seoul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11545],"tags":[20225,14383,16755,20224,20223,20222,20221,11556],"class_list":["post-53216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-navy","tag-destroyer-roks-jeongjo-the-great-ddg-995","tag-k2-black-panther","tag-k9-thunder","tag-republic-of-korea-armed-forces-day","tag-republic-of-korea-navy","tag-sejong-the-great-class","tag-seoul","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}