Comments on: Soldiers Rescue Passengers from Vehicle Accident

By: "Brave" US Soldiers Recognized By Korean Defense Minister at ROK Drop

"Brave" US Soldiers Recognized By Korean Defense Minister at ROK Drop — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:40:26 +0000

[...] soldiers who rescued three Korean passengers from auto accident have received further recognition of their [...]

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:10:00 +0000

I am glad to see this story at least made the Chosun even though it is nearly a carbon copy of the Stars and Stripes report from two days ago.

If you have more of these stories feel free to drop the links here.

By: Tom

Tom — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:06:24 +0000

So you never hear about these stories?
Well then what the f*** is this?

http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2008/01/19/2008011900361.html

You never hear about it because most of you can’t even read or understand the media that you’re whining about. Instead, you rely on few people to interpret everything for you and think that’s all there is.

My point is, you’ll never hear about the good stories that get printed in Korean papers here.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:00:14 +0000

During the oil spill clean up the Korean media mentioned expat foreigners and not GIs. I have not seen one article documenting that USFK had hundreds of GIs aiding with the oil spill clean up despite this information being on the public affairs release on the USFK website.

By: Beatinzone

Beatinzone — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:51:02 +0000

Koreans rarely, if ever, talk about some of the GOOD THINGS GIs and foreigners do. They seem to be so focused on xenophobic ways. Sure the oil spill thing they mention us, but other than that…

By: Nomad

Nomad — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:25:06 +0000

Aside from the Stars & Stripes and this blog, these kinds of stories rarely, if ever, make the news - which is unfortunate.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:12:33 +0000

Yep, you never hear about these kinds of GI-related incidents. I, too, was involved in helping out accident victims on the Kyungbu Expressway near the Banpo exit in 1998. The circumstances were pretty much the same, accident happens and the only thing the other motorists can think of is how they are going to get past this and on to their destinations.
One thing that really bugged me about my incident was that we flagged down a passing ambulance and they said they couldn’t help because they had to get back to their hospital. What?? Our incident was quickly broadcast over the news as, just coincidentally, a KBS new truck was right behind us as we stopped to render assistance. Me and my companions got some good coverage from that and the story that ran actually focused on the fact that foreigners had stopped to help while their countrymen drove by as it nothing was happening. Moral of this story, in Korea don’t get into an accident and expect to live.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:37:05 +0000

Tony,

Thanks that is a funny video, I will post it soon.

By: Tony

Tony — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:32:33 +0000

Of course you’ll never hear mention of these soldiers - it just doesn’t fit the whole grievance narrative. Thank goodness for those soldiers.

BTW, this may amuse you - it’s a mashup of NK propaganda films and Top Gun: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=119_1200415617