Yulgok
ROK force-modernisation programme name of the Park decades -- policy, not a shopping list to copy. Policy or ancestor soil of Hanwha Aerospace.
Darker cells mean a higher score for this topic on that metric.
Scale28
Intensity18
Duration45
Tech shift56
Political impact42
Cultural memory26
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Are the scores a ranking of nations or armies?
No. Scores are browsing aids inside an era-bounded atlas — not live league tables of countries.
What is K9 Thunder in this file?
A ROK self-propelled 155 mm howitzer that entered ROKA service in 1999 and later became the firm's public export signature. Named as industrial history. No employment or manufacturing content.
Why did Samsung sell?
Public file: Samsung's portfolio choices after years of being a defence-and-engine maker; Hanwha's bid to be the land-and-aerospace chaebol. A 2014-15 political-industrial event.
How does Yulgok relate?
Park Chung-hee-era modernisation and heavy industry created the supplier base. This is policy history, not a praise song and not a coup file (see korea-1979 for 12.12).
What is the Poland story?
2020s framework headlines for K9 and K2 as Warsaw rearmed. Dated news history. Not a live delivery tracker and not a how-to.
How does Rheinmetall fit?
Gun, vehicle, and ammunition-plant partnerships and competitions -- a two-firm European-Korean file.
Historical Samsung Techwin works, ADD as a state cousin, ROKA artillery as the first customer -- past structures.
Not a live ROK ORBAT, not a Changwon capacity leak, not a K9 crew drill.
Systems
Samsung Techwin
The 1991-2015 name of the line Hanwha bought.
K9 Thunder
ROK 155 mm self-propelled howitzer -- export signature. Named, not instructed. A public signature type or programme -- named, not specified.
Kim Seung-youn
The public chaebol name on the 2014-15 purchase and the later export years.
Hanwha acquisition
2014-15: Chaebol-to-chaebol sale.
Works geography
Changwon and other ROK plants; Middle East and European export offices; a chaebol defence chapter is the industrial map of Hanwha Aerospace (2015 Hanwha takeover of Samsung Techwin (Samsung aerospace/defence line from the 1970s Yulgok era)) -- plants and hearings, not a capacity leak.
Meters
Atlas scale (not a war)
28
Peak intensity
18
How long it defined a period
45
Tech or method shift
56
Borders, regimes, law, alliances
42
Film, school, ritual density
26
Hotspots
Yulgok soil
1973-90: Licensed production and a state project. Named as historical geography of Hanwha Aerospace, not as a targeting list.
Samsung Techwin
1991-2014: K9 born as a national type. Named as historical geography of Hanwha Aerospace, not as a targeting list.
Sale and rename
2014-17: Hanwha buys the line. Named as historical geography of Hanwha Aerospace, not as a targeting list.
Export diversification
2017-21: Australia and others in the English file. Named as historical geography of Hanwha Aerospace, not as a targeting list.
European headlines
After 2022: Poland and partner-rival stories. Named as historical geography of Hanwha Aerospace, not as a targeting list.
Materials
Chronology (2015 Hanwha takeover of Samsung Techwin (Samsung aerospace/defence line from the 1970s Yulgok era))
Hanwha Aerospace is bounded as 2015 Hanwha takeover of Samsung Techwin (Samsung aerospace/defence line from the 1970s Yulgok era). 1973-76 opens the usual narrative (Yulgok / HCI drive); 2023-25 closes it (Rheinmetall teaming headlines).
Theatre: Changwon and other ROK plants; Middle East and .
Place is evidence. Changwon and other ROK plants; Middle East and European export offices; a chaebol defence chapter is where Hanwha Aerospace happened -- a map for readers, not a guide for repeating it.
Human-cost band
not a war -- a firm; human cost sits in the wars and force plans that bought the products Keep the figure as a range. Spectacle integers are not a census.
K9 Thunder
ROK 155 mm self-propelled howitzer -- export signature. Named, not instructed. A material of the Hanwha Aerospace vocabulary, dated to 2015 Hanwha takeover of Samsung Techwin (Samsung aerospace/defence line from the 1970s Yulgok era).
A plant-town employment map is the honest force of a firm page.
No powerpack teardown and no firing table.