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Some of the countries that S&T Daewoo does arms business with, according to Hong, are the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria and Colombia. His company is currently trying to include Pakistan on its client list for its K-4 grenade launcher, even though the country has tense relations with India over border conflicts.
There is no export ban in place on most of the firearms produced by S&T Daewoo.
Apart from small arms, South Korea exports ammunition, armored vehicles, training jets, gas masks and parts of U.S.-manufactured fighter planes such as F-15s, Korea’s primary fighter jet.
An official of the Defense Acquisition Program Administration, speaking on condition of anonymity, said South Korea was trying to sell training jets such as the KT-1 to countries in South America.
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There are about 87 companies involved in the arms industry in Korea. Each company has a monopoly on its product. The top five companies such as Samsung Techwin make up about half the industry’s total arms sales, but the top five exporters change in ranking each year.
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In order to make the defense industry more competitive, the Defense Acquisition Program Administration is implementing a policy starting next year that will scrap the current monopoly held by each company, thus freeing up the market to greater competition.
South Korean companies aren’t shy about filling their coffers when opportunity knocks. The country was among the top 12 countries that supplied arms to Iraq despite UN sanctions, according to a report in October 2004 by Charles Duelfer, the special adviser to the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
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According to Duelfer’s report, Iraq was planning to integrate the notebooks into its air defense system and artillery fire control mechanism. However, Duelfer concluded, “There is no evidence to suggest that the South Korean government was complicit in the transfer of prohibited goods.”
The five companies that did business in Iraq were LG Innotech, Shinsung Company, Unimo Technology Company, Techmate Corporation and Armitel.
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Except for large arms sales, weapons sales don’t receive much media attention here, but civic groups have started to take notice.
Arms Without Borders, an international civic group advocating gun control, named South Korea as one of the emerging arms exporters in its 2006 report. Traditional powerhouses include Russia and the United States.
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The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute lists Australia, Bangladesh, Chile, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Liberia, Malaysia, New Zealand and the Philippines as past recipients of conventional South Korean weapons.
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Industry officials say South Korean shipbuilding companies such as Hyundai Heavy Industries are also looking to export submarines. They’ve been built with German help.
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Ammunition for M16 assault rifles falls under this category. In the midst of trimming and rejigging ministries and government organizations, comments by one member of the transition team may indicate where President-elect Lee Myung-bak stands.
“The [Defense Acquisition Program Administration] statement that it could triple export sales was one factor that ensured its survival,” says the official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Ju Ho-young, the president-elect’s spokesman, said earlier this month that President-elect Lee wrote to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahayan of the U.A.E. to make a case for Seoul’s T-50.