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Monthly Archives: January 2009
The ROK Drop is Back!
» by GI Korea January 18th, 2009 at 6:08 pm » Comments (25)
It took a little while, but the ROK Drop is officially back in action. It took some time but the ROK Drop is now officially moved over to its new ...more »No way to treat a Marine widow Part II
» by Bill January 18th, 2009 at 2:22 pm » Comments (5)
The son of a Marine was born January 9th on Okinawa. Michael H. Ferschke III, the son of a Marine who was killed on a mission in Iraq last August, was born ...more »DMZ Flashpoints: The 1996 Spy Submarine Incident
» by GI Korea January 14th, 2009 at 1:19 pm » Comments (16)
Background Along the East Sea highway just south of Gangneung a traveler will see a very peculiar sight of a small submarine on display along the sea shore adjacent to the ...more »Korean Missionaries Criticized in the Philippines
» by GI Korea January 7th, 2009 at 5:47 pm » Comments (411)
It looks like the criticism of Korean missionaries is continuing to grow: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="210" caption="The All for Christ Theological Seminary in central Mindoro. (Photo: M. Gibb)"][/caption] Korea’s aggressive Christian missionaries, ...more »2nd ID Soldiers Give Gifts to Korean Orphans
» by GI Korea January 6th, 2009 at 11:43 pm » Comments (5)
Soldiers from the US 2nd Infantry Division recently took some time this holiday season to ensure that a group of Korean orphans had a Christmas worth remembering: more »USFK Court Martial Results for December 2008
» by GI Korea January 6th, 2009 at 5:30 pm » Comments (8)
Once again nothing really serious this month with mostly more of the same old fraud and assault cases being handled by both the Korean and USFK legal systems. There was ...more »10% Increase in Number of North Korean Defectors
» by GI Korea January 6th, 2009 at 2:55 pm » Comments (2)
It appears the Chinese crackdown along their border with North Korea has some what mitigated the number of North Koreans successfully defecting to South Korea: The Ministry of Unification said Monday ...more »Picture of the Day: Korean Protesters for Palestine
» by GI Korea January 6th, 2009 at 12:33 pm » Comments (3)
[caption id="attachment_10642" align="alignnone" width="444" caption="Members of more than 20 civic organizations, including Palestine Peace Solidarity, the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy’s Center for Peace and Disarmament, and PeaceNetwork place symbols ...more »Biographer Confirms, Kim Hyun-hee North Korean Spy
» by GI Korea January 6th, 2009 at 11:16 am » Comments (4)
Well as if there was any doubt, Kim Hyun-hee is in fact a North Korean spy: The biographer of the last surviving bomber of Korean Air flight 858 has dismissed recently ...more »The US Military and Housing Fraud
» by GI Korea January 6th, 2009 at 7:44 am » Comments (5)
Considering we have been discussing the LQA issue and housing fraud going on in USFK from yesterday's posting here on the ROK Drop, the Stars & Stripes provides a timely ...more »
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