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mental preparedness and enhance their inner growth and pride in military service.
The ROK Armed Forces also helps the servicemembers acquire a strong soldierly
mindset by letting them naturally understand war history and indirectly access
historical sites through mission-oriented educational content , "soldierly mindset
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in movies" program, and the pilot development of digital textbooks combined with
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advanced science and technology.

Expansion of History Education Chapter 3
Program to Boost Patriotism
and Pride

More courses are added to the history
curriculum to help the servicemembers
raise their awareness of history, patriot-
ism, and pride. The history education Visit to the Independence Hall of Korea as part of the
experiential learning activities of the history education
on the Greater Korea Independence program
Army and the Korea Independence
Army are reflected in the annual plan for the servicemembers’ spiritual and
mental force education, and collaboration programs are being carried out with the
Independence Hall of Korea.
In addition, special efforts are made to encourage servicemembers to develop the
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Production of contents
education programs according to major occasions and producing and broadcasting in connection with the
servicemembers’ missions
special documentary films. The ROK Armed Forces will continue to foster an in each military unit (e.g.,
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territorial airspace intrusion
unwavering soldierly mindset and maintain strong mental preparedness through response, GOP complete
operation, territorial sea
innovation in educational techniques and substantial education. defense mission)
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An educational technique
Operation of the Defense Agency The Defense Agency for Spiritual and that provides experiences
for Spiritual and Mental Force Mental Force Enhancement is an edu- without going to the field
using technologies such
Enhancement cational institution that specializes in as virtual reality (VR) and
augmented reality (AR),
military spiritual and mental force. Its which are highly immersive
and realistic
primary tasks are to conduct education to instill military spirit in servicemembers
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and help them establish perspectives toward the homeland and national security, A documentary film
commemorating the
research combat development concerning spiritual and mental force and related 100th anniversary of
establishment of the
doctrines, and develop contents for spiritual and mental force education for Provisional Government
(2019) and a documentary
servicemembers. film commemorating the
70th anniversary of the
As the only agency that offers military spirit-specialized curriculum in the military, Korean War (2020)

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