{{Infobox military unit , unit_name = 5th Infantry Division , image = ROK 5th Infantry Division.jpg , caption = 5th Infantry Division insignia , dates = Apr 29th, 1948 - present , country = {{flag, South Korea , allegiance = , branch = Flag_of_the_Army_of_the_Republic_of_Korea

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Republic of Korea Army The Republic of Korea Army (ROKA; ko, 대한민국 육군; Hanja: 大韓民國陸軍; RR: ''Daehanminguk Yuk-gun''), also known as the ROK Army or South Korean Army, is the army of South Korea, responsible for ground-based warfare. It is the l ...

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Yeoncheon Yeoncheon County (''Yeoncheon-gun'') is a county in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. The county seat is Yeoncheon-eup (연천읍) and sits on the Korail railroad line connecting Seoul, South Korea, with North Korea ( DPRK). History A variety of pal ...

Gyeonggi Gyeonggi-do (, ) is the most populous province in South Korea. Its name, ''Gyeonggi'', means "京 (the capital) and 畿 (the surrounding area)". Thus, ''Gyeonggi-do'' can be translated as "Seoul and the surrounding areas of Seoul". Seoul, the na ...

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Korean War , date = {{Ubl, 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 (''de facto'')({{Age in years, months, weeks and days, month1=6, day1=25, year1=1950, month2=7, day2=27, year2=1953), 25 June 1950 – present (''de jure'')({{Age in years, months, weeks a ...

Battle of Bloody Ridge The Battle of Bloody Ridge was a ground combat battle that took place during the Korean War from 18 August to 5 September 1951. By the summer of 1951, the Korean War had reached a stalemate as peace negotiations began at Kaesong. The opposing a ...

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Park Chung-hee Park Chung-hee (, ; 14 November 1917 – 26 October 1979) was a South Korean politician and army general who served as the dictator of South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979; ruling as an unelected military strongman from 1961 ...

Chae Myung-shin Chae Myung-shin (; November 27, 1926 – November 25, 2013) was a South Korean army officer who commanded South Korean military forces in the Vietnam War. He was also the co-founder of the Korean Taekwondo Association. Early life Chae Myung-s ...

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Korean Korean may refer to: People and culture * Koreans, ethnic group originating in the Korean Peninsula * Korean cuisine * Korean culture * Korean language **Korean alphabet, known as Hangul or Chosŏn'gŭl **Korean dialects and the Jeju language ** ...

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Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...

: 第五步兵師團), also known as The Key Division (

: 열쇠부대) is a unit of the

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*Headquarters: **Headquarters Company **TOW Company **Recruiting Company **Air Defense Company **Engineer Battalion 'BULL' **Maintenance Battalion 'SEA EAGLE' **Support Transport Battalion **Reconnaissance Battalion 'PEGASUS' **Armored Battalion **Signal Battalion **Military Police Battalion **Medical Battalion **Chemical Battalion *27th Infantry Regiment 'LEOPARD' *35th Infantry Regiment 'LION' *36th Infantry Regiment 'EAGLE' *Artillery Regiment 'WHITE BEAR' **195th Field Artillery Battalion **196th Field Artillery Battalion 'YELLOW DRAGON' **205th Field Artillery Battalion **988th Field Artillery Battalion Infantry divisions of South Korea