The Republic of Korea Navy received its seventh Type 214 submarine ‘Hong Beom-do’ in a ceremony held at the Hyundai Heavy Industries shipyard in Ulsan on January 19.
The ROK Navy received the submarine less than two years after it was launched in March 2016.
The submarine is named after an independence fighter during the colonial rule of Japan in the 1900s and belongs to the second batch of Republic of Korea Navy submarines, referred to as KSS-II or Son Won-Il-class.
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