近年来，韩国在“自主国防”思想的指导下，加大了海军现代化建设，采取了一系列措施，不断朝“大洋海军”的发展目标迈进。2010年，天安舰沉没事件及延坪岛炮击事件发生后，韩国国内对“大洋海军”的质疑加大，李明博政府有意不再提“大洋海军”的远期发展目标，而加大以应对朝鲜挑衅为主的近海海上力量建设，同时加强韩美同盟，与美国举行了一系列的海上军事演习，加剧了东北亚地区的紧张局势，韩国海军发展态势再次引起世人的关注。从韩国海军发展的长远目标来看，韩国不会放弃“大洋海军”建设的长远目标。
In recent years，South Korea made a series of measures to increase the Navy’s modernization drove by the ideal of“self-defense”，so as to continue to approach towards the development goal of“Ocean navy”. Since 2010，after the sinking of Korea’s“Cheonan warship” and the shelling incident at Yan Ping island，Korea’s society starts to raise questions about“Ocean Navy”，Lee Myung-bak’s Government intends to no longer mention the“Ocean Navy” long-term development goals and shifts its focus on the development of costal sea forces in response to North Korean provocations，while strengthening the ROK-US alliance，South Korea held a series of navy military exercises with United States，adding to already series tensions in the Northeast Asia area，the trend of South Korean navy development has again attracted worldwide attention. However，considering the development of South Korea navy’s long term goal，it is highly likely that South Korea will not give up on its long term goal of“Ocean Navy” development.
