-I believe that group is arrriving at Inchon as we speak.

The archives of the English versions of the Korean press online only go back to about 1998. The Stars and Stripes online archive only goes back to 2000 (if I remember correctly —- I know for sure it doesn't go back past the 1990s).

So, all the articles I found prior to late 1990s come from the US press — and the US press hardly pays attention to South Korea. (For example, I doubt you could find articles in NY Times or Washington Post for most of the crimes that have been reported in the Korean press the last few years. Meaning, every GI crime you hear about in the Korean press is not covered by the US media. Only the big time crimes usually make it in those pages.)

From a close search of the archives of those two papers I did to update the GI Crimes Myth page of my site, it seemed to me that there were 1 or 2 reasons why I was able to find articles from roughly 1967 to 1973:

1) the SOFA revision that gave Korean courts jurisdiction over crimes against Korean citizens came about in the 1965-1967 time period — so —– it was big enough news for the US press to pay attention. All of the cases between about 1965 to 1970 or at least 1968 mentioned how the system for handling GI crimes was new. The articles read like followup reports to the stories about the first two crimes that were handled in the new system.

Then in the early 1970s, the articles dry up.

A 2nd possible reason (and 1 and 2 might overlap) is that most of the articles I found in the 1965-1973 period were written by Holloran who you still see writing analysis pieces about Korea in the US press. It is clear today he has a lot of connections in the military in the Pacific, and my guess is his work in the past gave him some special connection/interest in South Korea and the US military there, and maybe he switched jobs in the early 1970s and wasn't in a position to keep up with something like an arrest of a US soldier in Korea……just a guess….

Another reason the coverage of GI Crimes I was able to find dries up around 1973 has to do with how the searching for articles changes around that year in the archives:

It was in the early 1970s that the US press began covering the Korean stock market and business interests daily.

Before that, I went through the archives year-by-year just with simple search terms like "south korea" which would turn up a few hundred hits, and I had the time and patience to scan ALL the headlines to catch the ones on crime.

But, when the press began watching the Korean stock index each day in the early 1970s – the number of hits a simple "south korea" search turned up jumped through the roof and made checking all the articles impossible.