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Picture of the Day: US Marines During the Korean War
» by GI Korea March 15th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (3)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="520" caption="Marines outside Pusan relax before battle."][/caption] I highly recommend everyone view the series of color photographs from the Korean War by journalist John Rich. more »Korea Could Be Classified A Controlled-Risk Country for Mad Cow Disease
» by GI Korea March 15th, 2010 at 8:19 am » Comments (34)
I have long pointed out the hypocrisy of the mad cow issue in Korea, but here is yet another article proving this: South Korea is likely to be categorized by an ...more »Google Warned About Violating Korea’s Video Game Laws
» by GI Korea March 15th, 2010 at 3:54 am » Comments (3)
This sounds like on the surface some kind of trade barrier put into place to aid Korea's domestic video game market: South Korea is considering banning access to the Android ...more »ROK Drop Weekly Linklets – March 14, 2010
» by GI Korea March 14th, 2010 at 4:19 pm » Comments (3)
The Koreas Update on the attacks on Korean students in Russia. The spat between Donguk University and Yale University in the US continues. Interesting posting about nationalistic myth making and the Gwangju Uprising. This ...more »Picture of the Day: Faces of Deoksu Palace
» by GI Korea March 14th, 2010 at 12:16 pm » Comments (0)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="539" caption="Click the below link for more picture of the faces of Seoul's Deoksugung Palace."][/caption] Via Hermit Hideaways. You can view more pictures of the royal guards and the ...more »Itaewon’s Homo Hill Profiled As Hangout for Gay US Soldiers In Korea
» by GI Korea March 14th, 2010 at 10:15 am » Comments (27)
Via a reader tip comes this Stars & Stripes article about a part of Itaewon night life that is hardly a secret to anyone stationed at Yongsan: It’s a Saturday night, ...more »How North Korea Ripped Off A South Korean Businessman
» by GI Korea March 13th, 2010 at 10:05 pm » Comments (3)
It sucks to get ripped off like this, but I really can't feel sorry for someone who was dumb enough to do business in North Korea in the first place: "I ...more »North Korean Arms Manufacturing Centered Around Tractor Factory
» by GI Korea March 13th, 2010 at 5:13 pm » Comments (0)
Here is an interesting article in the Chosun Ilbo that discusses how North Korea goes about producing and then exporting illicit weapons: Curbing North Korea's illicit arms trade is difficult since ...more »Picture of the Day: Korea’s White-Naped Cranes
» by GI Korea March 13th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="344" caption="White-naped Cranes feast in Gimpo on Tuesday amid a flock of herring gulls. (Yonhap News)"][/caption] more »Henry Kissinger Falls Ill In South Korea
» by GI Korea March 13th, 2010 at 11:37 am » Comments (10)
Hopefully this isn't anything serious for long time American diplomatic icon Henry Kissinger: Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was admitted to a hospital in Seoul, South Korea, on ...more »
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