By When it comes to Korean polls the usual caveats apply but the results on this particular poll are interesting:
About half of Dongducheon’s citizens agree that Camp Casey should close and its units should move to Camp Humphreys, according to a phone survey conducted by the 2nd Provincial Office of Gyeonggi Province.
Seventeen percent of respondents strongly agreed and 30.8 percent said they agreed with the planned move. Another 16.4 percent disagreed.
Provincial office officials refused Friday to answer Stripes queries about the 35.8 percent that gave other responses.
Respondents were more emphatic about the move’s timeline, according to the study. Results showed 57.2 percent wanted the move to happen by 2012, which is the latest estimate for nearly all troops stationed from Seoul northward to move to Camp Humphreys, located south of Seoul in Pyongtaek. [Stars & Stripes]
It appears the residents of Dongducheon are resigned to the fact that Camp Casey is moving and are supporting the 2012 relocation timeline. Now if only the Korean government would actually work towards making the wishes of both USFK and the residents of Dongducheon a reality instead of playing their typical delay games.
Interestingly, also in the article residents of Dongducheon are under the impression Camp Casey will be returned to the city. I will be amazed if that happens considering every ROK Army officer I know has been drooling over the possibility of taking over Camp Casey.
5:54 pm on July 28th, 2008 1
Let them drool, but I think the place should be razed to the ground, and let USFK sell all of the scrap steel to China for hard cash. Leave nothing for the ROKA except bare ground.
4:22 am on July 29th, 2008 2
If and when, the US ever relocates to Camp Humphries…the wailing will be heard throughout the land, once the locals realize that they will get nothing from the move but more suburban spread from Seoul, golf courses restricted for the rich and select former U.S. bases turned over to ROK forces to decay.
The only winners will be those locals willing to relocate also and establish their businesses down South.
11:11 am on March 20th, 2009 3
I arrived at Camp Casey in March of 1967. As the bus from the 177th Replacement Company approached Casey I saw a sign that read "If the 8th Army has it, we can get it". By the time my tour was over, I knew the true meaning behind that sign was "We'd have nothing without the 8th Army". The U.S. troops are the only reason the economy has flourished to any degree. When the U.S. moves out the Russian and Filipino girls will have to go back home, and the mamasans will have to buy more girls to work the clubs, just like the 60's. You can bet the ROK troops that move in will take over more than TDC. They will call the shots and there will be no more SOFA to protect the business girls and slicky boys.
2:05 pm on February 6th, 2010 4
What that area needs is an old fashioned Baptist Church to preach heaven sweet and hell hot!! Thousands of young G.I.'s are falling into drunk stupors and buying prostitutes. People in Korea the bar girls and the soldiers all need to be saved and washed in the Blood of Christ!!
3:04 pm on February 6th, 2010 5
What many parts of Dongducheon needs is a bulldozer. That and a housing office who takes their job seriously.
You sir, are a hypocrite. Have you ever really read (and comprehended) the doctrine you think so highly of? When is the last time you suffered a whore? Did you stone her? I bet not. God is jealous and vengeful. Like a 6 year old next to an ant hill with a magnifying glass. Go pray in the closet at Jesus taught you self-righteous ass.
/The only thing wrong with baptists is they don't hold them under the water long enough.