By GI Korea on January 16th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: ROK Army Cold Weather Training

• Teadrinker
  10:53 am on January 16th, 2011 1

  

  Knowing what I know about Korean winters and snow (you typically get nice fluffy snow like that at just -5C), he'd have to stay there an awful long time before he'd get frostbite (you can get frostbite starting at -18C). My record? About 1 minute while walking home in -40C temperatures.

• Tom Langley
  10:58 am on January 16th, 2011 2

  I'm glad I retired, lol.

• Leon LaPorte
  11:29 am on January 16th, 2011 3

  While I'm aware you *can* use snow to dry off in an extreme survival situation, I do not see an advantage or reason for what this fellow is doing. Show boating? Propaganda? "Practicing being miserable"? I can detect no actual survival gain here.

• Thomas Lee
  11:35 am on January 16th, 2011 4

  …I do not see an advantage or reason for what this fellow is doing. Show boating?…

  More like snow boating!

• Leon LaPorte
  11:37 am on January 16th, 2011 5

  I like the cut of your jib, sir. Well played.

• Teadrinker
  11:45 am on January 16th, 2011 6

  #3,

  Yes, as I was implying, it's BS.

• Teadrinker
  11:49 am on January 16th, 2011 7

  …Typically, Koreans see snow and automatically think Siberian temperatures. Anyone who's grown up around snow knows that's not necessarily the case. Let me put it this way, if he was standing topless in a blizzard where snowdrift is blowing vertically (and the snow is sleet, not snowflakes), I'd be impressed…but then he'd be dead.

• Tom Langley
  11:49 am on January 16th, 2011 8

  I think the ROK soldier is just showboating, HOOAH!

• Teadrinker
  11:55 am on January 16th, 2011 9

  Reminds me of another picture that was released about 2 years ago, Korean soldiers seemingly toughing it out in cold water…Except you could see the US Divers (wetsuit and other scuba gear maker) on their gloves, which implies they were in fact wearing a wetsuit under their uniforms. Anyone who's been scuba diving in winter will tell ya wetsuits offer sufficient insulation.

• setnaffa
  11:41 pm on January 16th, 2011 10

  Maybe it's a recruiting poster?

• Burma Bob
  3:05 am on January 17th, 2011 11

  Ah, You see this sort of thing in newspapers in every asian country, letting the taxpayers know that their troops are really tough. It's the military counterpart to the "Foreigners Make Kimchi" pictures.

• Teadrinker
  6:13 am on January 17th, 2011 12

  #11,

  Yes, it most definitely is.

  To add to why this doesn't impress me one bit: My uncle once told me how he would parachute onto ice fields in the Arctic during blizzards during the Cold War. The purpose of this was to blow up the ice fields in order to prevent Soviet tanks from crossing over whenever they were seen moving further North in Siberia.

• Teadrinker
  6:45 pm on January 17th, 2011 13

  #13,

  Four seasons? The couple of weeks of Spring and Fall we get here barely count as seasons, if you ask me. Hell, I've read somewhere even some Korean meteorologists are arguing we've only got 3 seasons here.

• Teadrinker
  6:46 pm on January 17th, 2011 14

  PS. We used to climb on top of my dad's garage on a ladder and do back flips off the roof into the snow.

• Conway East
  8:24 am on January 18th, 2011 15

  Cocaine: It's a helluva drug.

• Teadrinker
  9:22 pm on January 18th, 2011 16

  #16,

  Did you know that Rick James was "Canadian" for about a few years in the 60's (he went AWOL)? He was in a band with Neil Young at one point.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crm7gqK0OeY

• Teadrinker
  9:23 pm on January 18th, 2011 17

  "for about a few years"? I meant to write, "for a couple of years".

• Tom
  10:38 pm on January 18th, 2011 18

  "PS. We used to climb on top of my dad’s garage on a ladder and do back flips off the roof into the snow."

  That explains Teadrinker's brain damage condition.

• ChickenHead
  10:56 pm on January 18th, 2011 19

  So what.

  I walk uphill barefoot through liquid helium.

• Dragonfly
  2:40 am on January 19th, 2011 20

  He's trying to cool off after seeing the picture of Lee Seo-young on ROK Drop. He thought that preferable to pleasuring himself in front of his men.

• Andrew Myaer
  10:44 am on June 3rd, 2011 21

  He is pretending to be a Korean Tiger as usual.

• ChickenHead
  11:31 am on June 3rd, 2011 22

  Bukakki training in Matrix bullet time?

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