Korea Military Academy
| 육군사관학교 | |
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| Motto | Wisdom, Integrity, and Courage (Korean: 지, 인, 용) |
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| Type | Military academy |
| Established | May 1, 1946 |
| Superintendent |
Lieutenant General Choi Byung Ro (KMA 38th) |
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Administrative staff
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160 faculty |
| Location | Nowon-gu, Seoul, South Korea |
| Nickname | Hwarangdae (Hangul: 화랑대, Hanja: 花郞臺) |
| Mascot | Hwarang-i |
| Website | www.kma.ac.kr |
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| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Yukgun sagwan hakgyo |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yukkun sakwan hakkyo |
Korea Military Academy (KMA) is the foremost South Korean institution for the education and training of officer cadets for the Republic of Korea Army. Commonly referred to as Hwarangdae (Korean: 화랑대 Hanja: 花郞臺)) as a reference to the Hwarang, an elite organization of youth leaders in Korean history, it is located in Nowon-gu, a northeast district of Seoul, South Korea.
Korea Military Academy (KMA) was founded on May 1, 1946 as South Joseon Defense Academy by National Defense Command, the predecessor of Ministry of National Defense of Republic of Korea, under the authority of then-U.S. military administration in South Korea. With the end of Pacific War and the subsequent disbandment of Imperial Japanese Army which had been occupying Korea since 1910, a void of indigenous security force has been created, while the pool of human resource was composed of various backgrounds, including the Imperial Japanese Army, Manchurian Army, and Korean Liberation Army. As a preparatory measure, the U.S. military administration opened Military Language School in Seoul on December 5, 1945 in order to train military interpreters as well as the new generation of commissioned officers with unified, predominantly American military doctrine.
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