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Picture of the Day: Busan’s Haeundae Beach
» by GI Korea August 7th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (9)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Overcrowded beach: Thousands of people cool off in the sea at Haeundae Beach in the southeastern port city of Busan, Sunday. Haeundae is Korea’s most popular ...more »Should the WikiLeaker Bradley Manning Be Executed By the US Military?
» by GI Korea August 7th, 2010 at 7:46 am » Comments (47)
That is the question being asked over at This Ain't Hell: Now, I really don’t believe in the death penalty, not for the reasons you might think. In my opinion, ...more »Should the US Ambassador Have Attended the Hiroshima Memorial Ceremonies?
» by GI Korea August 6th, 2010 at 9:36 pm » Comments (11)
I don't really have a problem with this as long as the US ambassador doesn't start getting into apology mode: Today’s ceremony commemorating the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of ...more »China Fields New Missile That Threatens US’s Naval Fleet
» by GI Korea August 6th, 2010 at 4:48 pm » Comments (21)
Last week I posted about how the Chinese are claiming sovereignty over the South China Sea and here is how I guess they plan to exert control over the sea: U.S. ...more »Picture of the Day: Hills of Brass
» by GI Korea August 6th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="462" caption="GIs and Korean service corpsmen stack up the enormous pile of empty artillery and mortar shell casings at a collecting point near the front, pointing to ...more »A Look At Japanese Bullfighting
» by GI Korea August 6th, 2010 at 8:59 am » Comments (7)
I wonder if bullfighting in Korea is a tradition learned from the Japanese or the other way around?: As two bulls crush their sweat-drenched bodies against each other with blood-shot ...more »Korea’s Hahoe & Yangdong Folk Villages Received UNESCO Designation
» by GI Korea August 6th, 2010 at 3:22 am » Comments (1)
For those that haven't traveled to these areas before, they are both well deserving of UNESCO recognition and definitely worth visiting during any visit to Korea: Two Korean folk villages — ...more »Picture of the Day: Army Wife at the Club
» by GI Korea August 5th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)
Via PowerPoint Ranger. more »Japanese Man Kept As A Mummy to Draw Pension
» by GI Korea August 5th, 2010 at 8:14 am » Comments (2)
A lot of weird news stories come out of Japan, but this is the weirdest one I have read in a while: Local officials with Tokyo’s centenarian ward had been trying ...more »Zimbabwe plane crash report only a drill
» by Bill August 5th, 2010 at 7:21 am » Comments (1)
Kenyan officials staged a similar fake air crash drill in 2006. Zimbabwean aviation officials misinformed news organizations Thursday that a Boeing 767 arriving from London was involved in an accident ...more »
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