VICTORIA - The flagship of South Korea’s submarine fleet is docked in British Columbia where it’s serving as a floating floor model in the Asian nation’s pitch for Canada to buy 12 like it.

The crew of the ROKS Dosan Ahn Changho, a KSS-III-class diesel-electric submarine, received an official welcome at CFB Esquimalt on Monday, having arrived on Saturday ahead of exercises with the Canadian and other navies.