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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Busan Police Say They Need More Evidence In Child Rape & Murder Case

» by March 13th, 2010 at 1:38 am » Comments (4)

Here is an update of that awful rape and murder of a teenage Korean girl in Busan: The police investigation of a recent rape and murder case of a teenage girl ...more »

Korea & Denmark to Expand Green Technology Cooperation

» by March 12th, 2010 at 8:30 pm » Comments (8)

Korea and Denmark have made agreements to cooperate in green technology: Korea and Denmark have promised to further strengthen bilateral cooperation in developing renewable energy sources and improving fuel efficiency. President Lee ...more »

Korea to Deploy UN Response Unit

» by March 12th, 2010 at 4:00 pm » Comments (0)

I think this may be more troops to help with the disaster response in Haiti: Defense Minister Kim Tae-young says the government will create a 1,000-strong unit of troops for overseas ...more »

Picture of the Day: A Helping Hand

» by March 12th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (4)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A Republic of Korea (ROK) Marine helps undo the safety harness from a Marine assigned to the 3D Marine Logistics Battalion from Okinawa, Japan, after rappelling ...more »

USFK Court Martial Results for February 2010

» by March 12th, 2010 at 10:11 am » Comments (1)

Here are the the USFK court martial results for the month of February from the USFK website.  As you can tell below it was a pretty slow month for GI ...more »

Group Releases List of Anti- State North Korean Activists

» by March 12th, 2010 at 6:20 am » Comments (4)

I looked around to see this report because I would be very interested on who else the added to it: A conservative group has released a preliminary list of what it ...more »

VA Creates Automated System to Process Agent Orange Claims, Plus Who Is Veteran’s For Common Sense?

» by March 11th, 2010 at 7:07 pm » Comments (0)

I get a lot e-mails from Korea vets looking for help in regards to processing agent orange claims from their time stationed in Korea along the DMZ where agent orange ...more »

DODEA Enacts Policy That Gives Job Priority to Gay Couples

» by March 11th, 2010 at 3:34 pm » Comments (43)

Here is an article some of you may find of interest: Same-sex teaching couples are eligible after all for joint job transfers this year at Department of Defense schools, officials ...more »

Picture of the Day: The US-ROK Alliance

» by March 11th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (6)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Joint military exercise: A Korean Marine, left, bumps fists with a U.S. Marine during a joint drill by South Korean and U.S. troops in Pohang, North ...more »

California Restaurant Raided for Serving Whale Meat

» by March 11th, 2010 at 9:52 am » Comments (19)

It will be interesting to see where this sei whale meat came from: Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat -- an investigation that ...more »

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