Founding and near-end
Constabulary to armistice.
Start in 1948 and June 1950, not in a KF-21 press tent. The institution's first fact is near-destruction.
Name Paik and Chung before you name a type number.
Timeline
- Constabulary preface
Occupation politics and a proto-army.
- ROK armed forces with the state
A founding, not yet a tested institution.
- Invasion and collapse
The near-end of the force.
- Inchon
A UN amphibious hinge -- see the battle page.
- Armistice
A stop, not a peace treaty.
- Mutual Defense Treaty signed
The alliance bargain (in force 1954).
- Vietnam expedition
Chae Myung-shin's dated chapter.
- Yulgok years
Modernisation as industrial policy -- beside 12.12's 1979 shock.
- Defence-reform politics
Kim Dae-jung / Roh Moo-hyun era talk of reform and OPCON as public argument.
- Export and KF-21 politics
Industrial weather -- history of projects, not a live ORBAT.
Eras
Alliance army
Treaty, rebuild, Vietnam chapter.
Yulgok industrial force
Domestic types as a state project.
Reform arguments
Conscription politics; OPCON as a public word.
Exporter weather
K9/K2/KF-21 as news -- not a live list.
Milestones
June-August 1950
A force almost ends.
1 October 1953
A treaty writes the frontier bargain.
Yulgok
A state tries to own the types.
Yulgok is a policy, not a destiny, and 12.12 is a different page.
Export weather is a late chapter, not a live ORBAT.