ROTC Cadet Yang Eun-ji Named Top Military Cadet Nationwide in 2025 Summer Training
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- Writer 커뮤니케이션팀
- 보도일자 2025-08-28
ROTC cadet Yang Eun-ji (junior, Dept. of Chemical and Biological Engineering) has been named the nation’s top cadet after placing first in the 2025 Summer Training program.
This year’s training was conducted at the Korea Army Student Military School in Goesan, Chungbuk-do, from June 30 for fourth-year cadets and from July 28 for third-year cadets, each lasting four weeks. ROTC summer training is a mandatory course required for commissioning as a military officer after graduation. It provides cadets the opportunity to apply military theory learned during the semester through field training and to demonstrate basic leadership competency.
Cadet Yang achieved outstanding results across all areas of training—including land navigation, marksmanship, grenade throwing, individual combat, and drone operations—earning first place among 1,996 third-year cadets from 108 college ROTC units nationwide. She actively volunteered for difficult and demanding tasks with the mindset of “I will step up to do what others are reluctant to do.”
Cadet Yang reflected, “I felt some regret, thinking I had not done my best, but I realized that my own standards were stricter than others’. My efforts to uphold principles even when no one was watching ultimately led to this positive outcome.”
In this year’s training, all 19 cadets from the Sookmyung ROTC unit completed the program without any dropouts, and 13 of them received commendations for training excellence, demonstrating strong resilience and teamwork. The presence of university officials, including Vice President Wee Kyeong-woo, who visited the training site to encourage the cadets, was also noted as a source of great motivation.
Colonel Jeong Jin-soo, head of the university ROTC, remarked, “I am most proud that every cadet completed the training to the end. We will continue to devote our efforts to training outstanding officer candidates with responsibility and leadership.”
Founded in 2010 as Korea’s first ROTC program at a women’s university, the unit has since produced 328 elite officers. Recruitment for new cadets from among first- and second-year students will continue on campus until Tuesday, October 14.