South Korea's defense ministry said Monday it plans to create a cybersecurity technology team and a multilateral security department in an organizational change.

It would instead abolish a culture policy department tasked with improving life in the barracks amid continued reports of bullying cases in the nation's 625,000-strong military.

In an advance notice of a related bill on the scheme, the first in a decade to redraw the organizational chart of its headquarters, the ministry said its existing morale-boosting policy department will take over the duty, with the size of its entire workforce unchanged.

The decision to launch an independent team to specialize in cybersecurity-related technology on top of the cyberpolicy department came as concern has grown about North Korea's cyberwarfare capability.