[6] Korunović served in the First Balkan War and received the Gold Medal for bravery for his professional merits and courage.

His experience the war later influenced Korunović to take an authentic Serbian point of view in architecture.

In addition to working in the civil service as a government official[8] in the Ministry of Construction, Korunović was also a prominent member of the Pan-Slavic organization Sokol.

After the war, he spent his retirement days in his house in Vračar, where he mostly wrote his memories and illustrated earlier publications.

[9] Korunović build the Belgrade city center for physical culture "Stari DIF", located on Deligradska street in Savski Venac municipality.

On the north side, there was a music pavilion in the form of an arched tribune, with towers in the background, decorated with the symbols of the All-Slavic Sokol movement.