Monthly Archives: May 2011

A Video Overview of Budaejjigae (부대찌개)

» by GI Korea May 24th, 2011 at 6:09 pm » Comments (26)

Via a Facebook tip comes this video about one of my favorite Korean foods: more »

Picture of the Day: Park Ji-Sung With English Premier League Trophy

» by GI Korea May 24th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Manchester United's Park Ji-Sung lifts the English Premier League trophy following their match against Blackpool at Old Trafford, northern England on Monday. /Yonhap-Reuters"][/caption] more »

Three USFK Brigade Commanders Reprimanded for Gay Skit

» by GI Korea May 24th, 2011 at 5:13 am » Comments (25)

These Colonels must have forgot that anything possibly construed as being offensive of gays within in the military like impersonating a gay singer will not be tolerated: Three South Korea-based colonels have ...more »

Beware of Dangerous Foreign Criminals In Korea

» by GI Korea May 23rd, 2011 at 5:58 pm » Comments (40)

That is how the Chosun Ilbo sums up this article: A police crackdown that ended early this month led to the arrest of 1,249 foreigners and 79 indictments. Most cases involved ...more »

Picture of the Day: Students Visit Cheonan Wreckage

» by GI Korea May 23rd, 2011 at 1:02 pm » Comments (3)

Here is another picture posted on Facebook from USFK's Good Neighbor English Camp which I believe shows the students touring the wreckage of the Cheonan. Note to USFK PAO, I ...more »

USFK Confirms That Barrels Filled With Chemicals Were Buried At Camp Carroll

» by GI Korea May 23rd, 2011 at 7:03 am » Comments (38)

USFK has now confirmed what ROK Drop commenters have already been saying happened, that in 1978 barrels filled with chemicals were buried on Camp Carroll but were uncovered and disposed ...more »

USFK Court Martial Results for April 2011

» by GI Korea May 23rd, 2011 at 2:26 am » Comments (10)

It was a very busy month for both court martials and ROK criminal prosecutions this past month for USFK. Of note is that another servicemember was acquitted of rape in ...more »

US & South Korea To Jointly Investigate Agent Orange Claims At Camp Carroll

» by GI Korea May 22nd, 2011 at 5:40 pm » Comments (5)

The US & South Korea have officially decided to begin and investigation into the claims that the toxic defoliant agent orange was buried underneath Camp Carroll: South Korea said on Sunday ...more »

Picture of the Day: Japanese Women Join Comfort Women Protest

» by GI Korea May 22nd, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (8)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Japanese people from Osaka take part in the 970th weekly Wednesday protests outside the Japanese Embassy in Seoul calling on Tokyo to resolve the issue of ...more »

ROK Drop Open Thread, May 22, 2011

» by GI Korea May 22nd, 2011 at 5:05 am » Comments (32)

Please leave any comments or links in the comments section that you want to share with everyone. To start things off, does anyone think the US government is basically “a ...more »