The Daewoo Telecom K7 is a 9×19mm Parabellum submachine gun with an integral suppressor used by the Republic of Korea Armed Forces.
It is based on the Daewoo K1A assault rifle, but is simplified by utilizing a blowback action rather than the gas impingement system of its parent firearm.
It was first displayed outside of Korea in the United Arab Emirates at the IDEX (International Defence Exhibition) 2003 convention.
[4] The Defense Agency for Technology and Quality (DTaQ), a part of the Agency for Defense Development (ADD), and Daewoo Telecom (now SNT Motiv), a subbranch of Daewoo Group, officially started development in April 1998, finishing the project in December 2000.
[7] According to a report by the Korea Customs Service (KCS) in March 2024, a former SNT employee was caught exporting some 480,000 gun parts and production equipment worth ₩26.6 billion ($19.7 million) illegally copied from September 2019 to March 2023 to a state-owned defense contractor in the Middle Eastern country.
[10] However, prolonged fully automatic fire has been shown to damage and degrade the baffles within the integral suppressor.