GIKorea, just keep on keepin’ on brother. You do a good thing with no other compensation than the satisfaction you get out of doing it. Good work.

Tim in Angeles sendzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

And commanders in USFK need to appreciate the fact that their troops are NOT in Korea to be some sort of goodwill ambassadors.

GI’s don’t enlist to be diplomats, they enlist with the fond hope of going out and killing foreigners, if they are worth their salt, and their heart is in the right place. If they wanted to be in Korea as diplomats, they would have done what it takes to pass the foreign service exam.

GI’s in Korea are there because the Army orders them to go. The Army tells them to go beause our political leaders make and keep commitments to defend Korea.

That having been said, the best that Koreans and commanders can hope for is that GI’s respond to encouragement not to be collaterally damaging assholes while out in public.

You’re spending (wasting?) too much energy in responding to a ‘drive-by shooting’.

Bob Walsh ‘got it right’ in his comment about the ‘We Are the World’ album.

Welcome to the club, dude! #high five#!

I get e-mails saying my site is
-anti-Korean
-anti-Japanese
-funded by Japan’s right wing
-sexually exploiting women

There’s no shortage of losers out there on the internet, I swear.

Disgustinging funny!

I guess what I am saying is that–Korean, American or otherwise– this kind of reader is looking for something to hate about you. The aforementioned section, in spite of the disclaimer, serves it right up for them. Too be honest, that section–funny and true as it is–seems to be beneath the genuine dignity of this blog and seems to run counter to the aim of blogs in general, which I guess is to understand and not merely judge.

Anyway, that is my take on the situation. I appreciate the work you put into this blog.

I look forward to continuing to discuss topics of interest with everyone on this site. I think I learn just as much from commenters about Korea as I do from researching on topics to post about.

Bob, the Muffy and Skippy story had me LMAO.

I used to really enjoy it when it was coeds Muffy Park or Skippy Kim from Orange county or Scarsdale, who had come back to Korea to learn their own language for the first time since they were toddlers. I’d love it when they’s tell me how ignorant I really was about the “real Korea”, and how I had “probably never met a true Korean in my life”.

This was usually my cue to start relating to Muffy and Skippy the story of getting thrown out of some $15 dollar hooker’s hootch in Yongjugol at 2 a.m., for the simple and innocent sin of wanting to eat her diseased snatch, only to find out that ajjossi had stolen my shoes. And then find out later that I’d come down with crabs AND the drip. This all by way of telling them about the “real Korea”. If other Korean-speaking GI’s were in earshot, they would usually try -and occasionally succeed- at ‘topping’ that one.

“Yes, Muffy, I tell you this broad had nipples like two Vienna sausages, but the smell of pepsodent brushed over kimchi breath is just like an aphrodesiac for me now…”

The KLI instructors also had little patience for Muffy and Skippy, either. The only kypo’s they seemed to like, oddly enough, were those from Japan, because they were polite, hard-working, and didn’t give the instructors any lip.