Starting Next Year, an App Featuring Military ID Cards Will Be Released (Comprehensive)

[Asia Economy Yang Nak-gyu, Military Specialist Reporter] Starting next year, a mobile app that can verify the identity of Army soldiers will be distributed. Until now, Army soldiers had the inconvenience of having to separately carry their leave passes to receive military welfare benefits while on leave.

According to the Army on the 9th, by installing the ‘Millipass’ app, it will be possible to issue various certificates such as base entry passes, leave passes, and discharge certificates.

Until now, soldiers had to issue and individually keep various certificates such as ID cards, leave passes, business trip passes, service confirmation letters, and salary statements. However, starting next year, these can be stored electronically in Millipass. In particular, soldiers on leave can receive benefits at places like movie theaters, restaurants, and amusement parks that offer military discounts by simply showing the leave pass or identity verification screen issued by the app, without needing a paper leave pass.

The Millipass subscription targets soldiers, military personnel, military families, as well as Army cadets and officer candidates. Military families can use the service up to the spouse and children for married officers, and up to the parents for unmarried officers and enlisted soldiers. When a soldier is discharged, the parents’ subscription is automatically terminated. Reservists can also use Millipass, but only up to the year they are assigned as reservists and receive training. Long-term service members with over 20 years of service can continue to use it even after discharge.

In the first half of next year, a mobile easy payment function (Millipay) will be added to the Millipass app. Millipay has a fee of about 1%, which is cheaper than the general card payment fee (3?5%). Services linked to military discount plans from telecom companies that can be applied for without submitting separate supporting documents, simplified public transportation reservations and post-payment support for soldiers on leave or business trips, and issuance of driving experience certificates for drivers will also be enabled. Additionally, a site for exploring recruitment information will be linked, and an anonymous bulletin board for communication among soldiers will be installed.

This Millipass construction project was promoted after the ‘2021 MyData Demonstration Service Project Contest’ hosted by the Ministry of Science and ICT in March selected the ‘Active Duty and Military Family Authentication System Construction’ project proposed by the Army and the Korea Easy Payment Network (hereinafter HanGyeolwon) as the final public sector project. With support from the Ministry of Science and ICT and HanGyeolwon, a total project cost of 2.18 billion KRW was invested.

An Army official said, "In cooperation with the Ministry of National Defense in the second half of next year, we plan to expand the Millipass service to include the Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, applying it across all military branches."

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