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with barracks life professional counselors, and make video calls with their family members and friends.

“The use of mobile phones plays a significant role in knocking down Corona Blue with a single blow”

Thanks to the temporary use of mobile phones, amid the spread
of COVID-19, Corporal Yang ŸŸ of the Army Division ŸŸ was
able to send a video message of support to his sister who was
taking care of patients with COVID-19 while working as a nurse
at the Chungju Medical Center, a hospital designated to treat
infectious diseases.
In addition, Sergeant Lee ŸŸ, who joined the Army Division ŸŸ
two months after marrying his French wife, made a video call to
his wife in Dijon, France for the first time in nine months, allowing
him to check in on his wife whom he had been worried about as
they were a great distance away from each other.

| Development of Mobile App: Youth Dream, the Armed Forces Dream | Despite the full
implementation of mobile phone usage in the barracks, there was no defense mobile platform for self-
development and administrative support of young servicemembers. Accordingly, the MND launched the
"Youth Dream, the Armed Forces Dream" mobile app on January 1, 2020 to enable servicemembers to
use their mobile phones more efficiently and productively for self-development and adaptation to military
life. The mobile app supports the "Youth Dream, the Armed Forces Dream" policy on mobile, consisting
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of a variety of contents including welfare benefits, employment/start-up, learning, health, and leadership.
In particular, the app increased convenience through features such as mobile vacation pass and railroad
reservation for servicemembers on leave and through integration of features necessary for healthy military
service as well as grievance counseling and communication services such as sexual violence reports and
counseling, counseling on maladjustment to barracks life, and mental and physical health test sites. In the
future, a grievance counseling platform will be developed to let servicemembers receive counseling easily
through their mobile phones, and various online welfare benefits will also be provided to further improve
the app to provide various high-quality contents as a guide to barracks life.

3) A government-wide policy aimed at motivating servicemembers with productive military service and enhancing their
competencies, thereby improving national competitiveness after their discharge. It includes the expansion of universities
recognizing the military service as academic credits, provision of subsidies to cover the cost of self-development of
servicemembers, and career assistance programs and startup promotion contest.

2020 Defense White Paper