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function with the acquisition of core technologies, and gradually expand the size of the unit.

| Acquiring and Cultivating Outstanding Cyber Specialists | The MND will enhance the
system to acquire, manage, educate, and train cyber specialists under the recognition that elite

cyber warfare specialists of the military determine the outcome of a cyber war.
The MND will design and establish the personnel management systems tailored for each
status such as officers, noncommissioned off icers (NCO), civilian employees of the military,

and enlisted. For officers and NCOs, cyber military occupation will be newly created, and
their career path will be designed to help improve their expertise. For civilian employees of
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the military, the MND plans to expand the hiring of outstanding civilian workforce as civilian

employees of the military by creating an occupational category for the cyber f ield. Moreover,
qualif ied enlisted will be chosen as cyber specialist to strengthen the military’s cyber capabilities
and contribute to the strengthening of the national cybersecurity capability.
To cultivate elite cyber warriors, the MND plans to enhance the education and training system

by building a cyber warfare training center that resembles the actual defense cyber environment
and conducting realistic training under various cyberattack scenarios.

| Advancing the Cyber Threat Response System | The cyber weapons necessary to
successfully conduct cyber warfare will be advanced in sync with the pace of technological
changes. The response system incorporating the multilayered defense concept will be built based

on the analyses of tactics, techniques, and procedures of cyberattacks, while another plan is to
build a cyber operation system to carry out ef fective cyber operations.

| Active Participation in International Cyber Cooperation | The ROK Armed Forces
plans to actively participate in efforts to establish international rules and standards that strongly
prohibit illegal acts of violations in cyberspace.

To this end, the ROK Armed Forces strives to build conf idence in the cyber f ield with various
countries and international organizations while developing bilateral and multilateral channels
for international cooperation. The ROK Armed Forces plans to continue holding practical

discussions through the Seoul Defense Dialogue Cyber Working Group, a multilateral working-
level consultative body for the cyber field that has been meeting annually since 2014.

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