Korea Army Training Center

A three-day preparatory session in which novices acclimate to the training center before beginning fullfledged training. They spend time listening to instructions regarding procedure routines, official names, living regulations at the training center, and completing out surveys, among other things.

• Enlistment ceremony (입영행사): This is the first military event in which a civilian enters the military world to become a soldier, leaving family behind.
• Supplying Personal items(개인물품지급): Soldiers' individual body dimensions are scanned with a 3D automatic body dimensional scanner in order for them to receive appropriate equipment. Personal equipment is given, including combat suits, combat boots, underwear, sportswear, and military essentials like as toothpaste, toothbrushes, and tissues.
• Physical Examination (신체검사): In addition to basic tests such as weight and height, a thorough analysis of individual diseases and body constitution is conducted.
• Special aptitude examination ( 특기적성검사): Individual specialties are reviewed to determine whether it is possible to perform duties as a special forces soldier in the future.[3]

• Gun acquisition (총기수여식): Soldiers are issued their weapons.
• Entrance ceremony (입소식): A soldier makes a pledge as a trainee to undergo five weeks of training and become a private honorable soldier.
• Mental power education (정신전력 교육): Soldiers will be instructed to develop basic military posture. During this time, troops learn about military spirit through education on national, security, and enemy perspectives. They are taught what kind of country the Republic of Korea is, why it is necessary to join the military, and what kind of country the biggest opponent, North Korea, is.
• Formal discipline (제식훈련): Over the course of two weeks, trainees will acquire basic military posture, mental power, military spirit, national point of view, security, and so on. They will learn everything there is to know about a soldier's basic mental attitude, including how to walk, salute, and execute military etiquette.[3]

• Operation and management of rifles (소총의 조작 및 관리): Trainees are shown how to use and handle guns, as well as personal firearm characteristics, mission operation mastery, and management skills.
• Shooting drill (사격술 훈련): During shooting training, soldiers learn how to dismantle a gun in case it malfunctions, along with how to shoot, aim, and focus between gunshots. Following this training is range shooting practice.
• Guard training (경계): It is the responsibility of judging whether a suspicious person is trying to enter the unit or making suspicious moves at a guard checkpoint. It is a critical task because it is the first defense line against the opponent. A typical exercise is walking along the wire fences or looking around at a high guard post. Soldiers are trained how to look around and behave when someone approaches them.
• First-aid training (구급법): Training to learn basic first aid skills in order to help injured soldiers in war. If a comrade sustains an injury to his leg or arm, he learns how to splint or bandage it, how to stop bleeding with a wooden stick, how to support, how to carry a piggyback, how to create a stretcher, and how to perform CPR. This education is valuable since it can be utilized in the actual world.
• CBR training (화생방): Chemical, biological, and radiological training teaches how to utilize gas masks to avoid gas absorption in the eventuality of an enemy chemical bomb attack. Soldiers are required to remove their masks and face the gas bare-faced. This emphasizes the dangers of chemical attacks and the importance of wearing gas masks.
• Grenade training (수류탄): Soldiers become accustomed with hand grenades and their composition, structure, and specifications during this time, learn the instructions, and eventually gain the ability to effectively overpower the opponent in battle. Each step of training is accomplished by completing a certain task, advancing, and finally capturing the enemy's position. It is one of the training exercises that requires a lot of strength, and eventually troops will be able to effectively overpower the adversary in battle.
• Zero shooting (영점 사격): Shooting exercises to improve accuracy when hitting the target, and impact points at a constant range
• Record shooting (기록 사격): Even more practice to understand and master the principles of hitting targets by range.
• Individual combat (각개전투): A training to thoroughly master accuracy of direction, changing terrains, while facing various situations. Novices will show what they have learned in a wide range of situations and overcome obstacles with various strategies for moving at night. Soldiers with these abilities will be able to catch the enemy's position and respond appropriately to the circumstances.
• Full march of troops (완전군장행군): Soldiers march 20 kilometers around the training camp while carrying a 20 kg full-armament backpack containing blankets, combat shoes, and shovels to confront unexpected situations that may occur on the battlefield. This type of activity promotes combat spirit and pushes troops to their utmost combat strength.
• Completion ceremony (수료식): Soldiers receive a badge at the end of the five weeks of training as a token of their successful completion of the training. Families are allowed to visit their sons after the completion ceremony.
• Transfer (전속): Soldiers are allocated to a new unit following the completion ceremony.[3]