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Monthly Archives: June 2005
Japan To Return Korean Monument
» by GI Korea June 30th, 2005 at 9:52 am » Comments (3)
The Japanese have agreed to a request from North Korea through South Korea to return a stone monument taken from Korea in 1905. South Korea has asked Japan to give back ...more »It Must Be Summer Time
» by GI Korea June 29th, 2005 at 9:53 am » Comments (2)
The first sign of summer time in Korea is not what you normally would think would be a sign of the summer season. In Korea summer time officially begins when ...more »Despicable: UN Cemetery in Busan Vandalized
» by GI Korea June 29th, 2005 at 9:52 am » Comments (9)
This story is truly despicable. A group of people has vandalized the UN Cemetery in Busan: A giant anti-U.S. President George W. Bush message apparently written in herbicide has appeared on ...more »Koreans Complaining About Too Much Free Time
» by GI Korea June 28th, 2005 at 9:57 am » Comments (6)
How many countries in the world do their citizens complain about having too much free time? On Friday, it will have been one year since the five-day workweek became law for ...more »No More Flights Through Osan
» by GI Korea June 27th, 2005 at 9:59 am » Comments (5)
The flights to and from Korea for USFK soldiers stationed on peninsula will end and be replaced by commercial flights from Incheon. This is great news because flying out of ...more »English Teaching in the Big House
» by GI Korea June 27th, 2005 at 9:58 am » Comments (2)
Do any of you English teachers out there get paid this well? The prison, near Camp Stanley, houses 1,600 South Korean prisoners serving sentences of fewer than five years for less ...more »Performance Enhancing Cabbage is Banned by Baseball
» by GI Korea June 27th, 2005 at 9:58 am » Comments (1)
This is definitely one of those, Only in Korea, stories: South Korea's baseball authorities have banned a star pitcher from wearing frozen cabbage leaves in his cap to keep cool during ...more »These Guys Fight About Anything
» by GI Korea June 26th, 2005 at 10:00 am » Comments (4)
Now Korea and Japan are fighting over a nuclear fusion reactor to be built by either Japan or the European Union. Japan is bidding to build the reactor in Japan ...more »Three More Defectors in the Yellow Sea
» by GI Korea June 26th, 2005 at 10:00 am » Comments (0)
Two adults and a child have defected from North Korea to South Korean authorities patrolling the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea: Three North Koreans, all believed to be family ...more »Let Us Not Forget
» by GI Korea June 25th, 2005 at 10:03 am » Comments (5)
Friday is the third anniversary of the West Sea Naval battle. For those that don't remember the battle let me recap it for you. In June of 2002, one day ...more »
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