For have the reputation of being a backwater ghetto, compared to 2ID I always thought Kunsan Airbase was pretty nice place:

Come back to this tiny base on the edge of the Yellow Sea in 10 years, and you might not recognize it.

Construction is under way on 44 projects, from new high-rise dorms to a renovated Patriot missile battery site. Another 266 projects have been planned or are awaiting funding.

In total, the overhaul to a base that houses 2,600 troops and suffered from neglect for years will cost a whopping $1 billion.

To put it in perspective, that’s one-thirteenth of the cost of expanding Camp Humphreys, the U.S. military base that is tripling in size and will eventually house 17,000 troops, the bulk of the 28,500-strong U.S. military presence here.

Kunsan airmen and base officials have said for years that routine repairs were not made to the base because it was once scheduled for closure, though 7th Air Force historian David Schepp said there is no record of such a plan.

What is certain is that many of Kunsan’s buildings and infrastructure — from its dorms with malfunctioning air conditioning to its corroded water pipes — were not updated.

“We probably went through five or 10 years of neglect,” said Col. Jerry Harris, former commander of Kunsan’s 8th Fighter Wing, who was replaced in a change of command ceremony on Tuesday. “We probably treated [the base] as a renter instead of an owner.”  [Stars & Stripes]