By GI Korea on July 10th, 2011 at 9:01 am

ROK Drop Open Thread – July 10, 2011

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Here is this week’s open thread. Please leave any story links or issue you want to discuss in the comments section.

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Mohamud
12:38 pm on July 10th, 2011 1
LTC Under Investigation For Sleeping With a Soldiers Wife

http://www.armywtfmoments.com/ltc-under-investigation-for-sleeping-with-a-soldiers-wife
Tom
3:05 pm on July 10th, 2011 2
Korea and China will negotiate an FTA with each other.

http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_business/486611.html
Tbonetylr
3:53 pm on July 10th, 2011 3
If you have HIV/AIDS in S. Korea, don’t expect Yonsei Severance hospital to treat you if you have any joint/bone issues…
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/07/113_90479.html
“It was also confirmed that Yonsei University Severance Hospital hasn’t performed this type of surgery on HIV positive patients’ joints for the past two years.”

The reason…

“Kim said he visited the hospital in December last year to undergo surgery which would replace a troubled knee with an artificial one. But the hospital delayed the operation several times, citing “no stock of special rubber gloves” for the surgery, he said.”

After further review…

Yet, the commission found in the investigation that the hospital’s allegations were unconvincing.
We deemed that his surgery was possible without the special gloves,” it said, citing medical reports and indicated the hospital delayed the surgery with apparent intent to avoid it. “Ordinary surgical gloves were suitable for the surgery since they would have been strong enough to prevent contact with the patient’s blood.”
Maui
3:54 pm on July 10th, 2011 4

ROK, well Seoul number one again but not in a good way
Granted a lot of these are most likely from compromised systems.

http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/07/10/2219247/Zeroing-In-On-the-Internets-Evil-Cities
setnaffa
5:25 pm on July 10th, 2011 5
Anyone besides me just enjoying life this week? Compared to most folks, we’re rich and have no problems of consequence…
Tom
5:35 pm on July 10th, 2011 6
Talking about numbers, South Korea’s emigration out of South Korea for 2010 is 899 people – a twenty percent drop from previous year and an all time low.

http://joongang.joinsmsn.com/article/523/5764523.html?ctg=10&cloc=joongang|article|rangking

So much for the expat claims that South Koreans will give their right arm to immigrate to America.
Tbonetylr
5:52 pm on July 10th, 2011 7
Tom,
Ever think that Koreans would rather do it the illegal way? That’s correct, there are approx. 200,000 of you(you’re Korean and an illegal correct?) who have overstayed thy welcome.
Tom
7:13 pm on July 10th, 2011 8
#7 I don’t think so. That number was from few years back. The number of illegal immigrant population from South Korea in the US, has plunged in the last 3 or 4 years. Wait few more years, with the US becoming a basketcase economy, there will be no illegal Koreans who would want to go there.
Glans
7:14 pm on July 10th, 2011 9
‘Authorities are currently investigating several members of labor organizations, academia and political parties for suspicion of organizing anti-government organizations at the command of North Korea’s Labor Party.’ RJ Koehler asks, ‘McCarthyism at its finest? Or a genuine concern? You be the judge,’ but of course I’m in no position to judge. Enter the Marmot’s hole.
ChickenHead
7:39 pm on July 10th, 2011 10
Two things…

1. In response to #1…

Q: How is a colonel having an affair with his soldier’s wife like a colonel getting caught having an affair with his soldier’s wife?

A: They are both going to get off.

2. This is funny… and oh, so, true…

http://takimag.com/article/mexico_sues_georgia_for_making_it_a_crime_to_be_illegal
Glans
9:00 pm on July 10th, 2011 11
ChickenHead 10.2, I found a more recent report. It says some parts of Georgia’s HB 87 have been blocked and others left intact pending the final outcome. It doesn’t say what, specifically, is left intact. It mentions a 45-page ruling but doesn’t give a link. Governor Nathan Deal will appeal. Here’s the report. For links to the complaint and the order, visit the court’s page for this case.
Mohamud
11:38 pm on July 10th, 2011 12
O-5 suspended while alleged affair investigated

By Joe Gould – Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Jul 10, 2011 8:41:15 EDT

Sgt. Mitchell Streeter was overwhelmed. Twice deployed, he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, unable to sleep, stressed out by his job as a recruiter, and now he was being forced out of the Army after a drunken-driving arrest.

To top it off, his wife was acting suspiciously.

Late on the night of his 37th birthday, April 27, Streeter paged through his sleeping wife’s cellphone. There, among the messages he might have expected, were some shocking extras: graphically sexual messages between her and another man.

He woke up his wife to confront her. She confessed. The other man was his married battalion commander, and the two of them had carried on an affair for 10 months. It had ended a month earlier.

Streeter, who had lost a stripe after a drunken-driving arrest in 2008, and was on the verge of losing his 13-year career after a 2010 drunken-driving arrest, was devastated. He began his own investigation, hiring Ellington IT & Forensics, of Raleigh, N.C., which extracted dozens of text messages, many of them containing sexually explicit and provocative comments from her phone.

Derek Ellington, the firm’s principal, confirmed to Army Times that he had found the messages at Streeter’s request.

Then Streeter turned 255 pages of phone records as well as Ellington’s report over to the Army, sending a second copy to Army Times.

Now Lt. Col. Lonnie McNair, commander of the Raleigh Recruiting Battalion, Streeter’s unit, is under investigation for the alleged affair with Streeter’s wife, according to an Army Recruiting Command spokesman.

Maj. Gen. David Mann, the commander of Army Recruiting Command, issued a temporary suspension of McNair on July 1, pending the outcome of the investigation, said the spokesman, Douglas Smith. McNair was temporarily attached to another unit nearby, and his executive officer, Maj. David Foster, was placed in command.

Smith said such decisions are made on a case-by-case basis, factoring in “the likelihood of the allegations being substantiated, and based on a preliminary legal review of the investigation.

“Recruiting Command takes the public’s trust very seriously, and we’re conducting the investigation thoroughly and expeditiously,” Smith said.

Multiple attempts to reach McNair by telephone, both at work and his mobile number as well as by email, were unsuccessful.

Through Smith, McNair declined to comment, saying it would be “inappropriate” while he is being investigated.

“He would prefer not to make a statement at this time,” said Smith. “He is cooperating with this investigation and is withholding comment until the investigation is complete.”

Streeter said he took his case public — sending his wife’s phone records, the text messages and a single nude below-the-waist picture which he said McNair sent his wife — in a curious pursuit of justice. His biggest fear: that he will be fast-tracked out of the Army while McNair escapes unpunished.

Streeter is no angel, and he doesn’t try to hide that fact. Streeter’s 2010 drunken-driving arrest was his third since 1998, a computer search shows, and he also faces charges that he had an open alcohol container in his car and resisted a public officer. Streeter confirmed the charges pending against him. With 13 years in service, and now only a sergeant, he could soon bump up against high-year tenure limits — if the Army doesn’t kick him out first.

The man who pressed the wheels of justice against him, Streeter said, was his wife’s former lover, his commander, McNair.

“Honestly,” Streeter said, “I feel it’s my battalion commander’s personal vendetta, like he’s a jealous lover, trying to get me out of the equation so he could have my wife to himself.”

Streeter’s wife, whose name is being withheld by Army Times at her request, was a temporary clerk in the battalion adjutant’s office, and a civilian subordinate under McNair. She said the affair began a year ago, soon after McNair took over the post, and she sought an interview hoping to make her temporary position a permanent job.

What could have been a brief meeting went on for more than an hour, then two. When the interview ended, Streeter’s wife said, McNair gave her his personal telephone number. The affair started soon after.

The sergeant’s wife, 36, said she and the lieutenant colonel met every couple of weeks. The phone records corroborate her story and show they were texting and sharing explicit photos.

Sometimes they talked about meeting up. Others times they talked or texted about work. The two also discussed Streeter’s wife’s job prospects in one tense exchange.

At 12:40 p.m. on Jan. 31, she sent the following text, “Was my job promised to Ann?” And then, “Be honest.”

He responded moments later, “Huh … where is this coming from … first I’ve heard,” and he followed up with texts apparently meant to reassure her.
You can read the rest of the story on the Army times. I know the wordings may not be correct but you know how sensationalizm comes into these sort of stories.
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2011/07/army-o5-suspended-while-alleged-affair-investigated-071011/
Tom
4:39 am on July 11th, 2011 13
Foreign cars with cheap $20,000 prices go on sale in Korea, but their sales numbers have been miserable. Cars like Toyota Corolla, Honda Civic, Nissan Cube, Dodge Calliber, Mercedes Smart, Peugot 207GT. Korean consumers look under the hood and say there’s not much there that’s impressive. They’d rather buy Hyundai and KIA.

http://news.donga.com/Economy/New/3/01/20110710/38696910/1
Tbonetylr
6:36 am on July 11th, 2011 14
Tom,
I don’t even have to read the article to know that the Korean media(in this case Donga) is working for the Korean automobile industry(Hyundai) in an attack against anything foreign(Duh). Have you ever heard of “Groupon,” this American company is also under attack by the S. Korean media. The best or “free choice” will win out in the end.
Tbonetylr
6:42 am on July 11th, 2011 15
Please,
Would you delete Mohamud’s(duece) comment, I’d rather you post this information as you usually do by making it its own thread. When you do, please delete my comment.

Thank you,
TBONETYLR
Tom
6:47 am on July 11th, 2011 16
#14, Just check the numbers published by the automakers themselves, and it tells me you are a BS.
setnaffa
7:31 am on July 11th, 2011 17
#12 sounds like a plot from that CBS show The Unit…

Off Topic just a bit, would it really be “Stolen Valor” if a guy wore wone of these patches?

http://www.americainwwii.com/stories/ghost-army-patches-photos.html
James W Bolt [40 yards]
11:18 am on July 11th, 2011 18
My unit was dug in on 14 July 1950 east of the Kum River on a 23 mile secondary road that ran from Gong-ju [Kong-ju]to Nonson.My unit B Battery 63d Field Artillery Battalion was three miles south west of Gongju near the village of Chuni-ri. A Battery was at Sangyori HQ was at Taebong ni.I can not find none of these places on a Korean map today.The Village Master was Sin Kap San from Chuniri and he buried seven of my buddy when they return to the village.Know it is late but just want to say THANK you and the people of your village.Sign 40 yards
kushibo
11:25 am on July 11th, 2011 19
tbonetylr wrote:

If you have HIV/AIDS in S. Korea, don’t expect Yonsei Severance hospital to treat you if you have any joint/bone issues…

Where are you going with that, T-bone? I think there are a lot of interesting topics that can come out of that, depending on where you’re headed.
Chris Hiler
11:36 am on July 11th, 2011 20
That’s a very moving post (#18) James W Bolt [40 yards]
JoeC
3:07 pm on July 11th, 2011 21
If you have been looking at a satellite images of the western Pacific Ocean, it seems like tropical depressions are being produced on an assembly line.

No End of Torrential Rains in Sight
Glans
4:06 pm on July 11th, 2011 22
setnaffa 17, those are neat patches, but I don’t get it. Did a few men march around wearing them for the benefit of newsreel cameras? Or maybe they hung out in bars, where Nazi spies might see them? I don’t suppose German reconnaissance planes would have detected shoulder patches.
kangaji
8:06 pm on July 12th, 2011 23
http://media.daum.net/society/woman/view.html?cateid=1001&newsid=20110526105906761&fid=20110526105918641&lid=20110526105822314

OHMYNEWS quoted rokdrop a couple of months ago. Translating…
kangaji
10:43 pm on July 13th, 2011 24
UN Puts NORTH KOREA in charge of FU-ING DISARMAMENT!!? WTF UN!?

http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2011/06/29/un-names-north-korea-chair-of-arms-control-agency/
Glans
12:53 am on July 14th, 2011 25
Alabama churches lead opposition to immigration law, says Jay Reeves of AP.
Denny
2:34 am on July 14th, 2011 26
Kibot: South Korean Robot Reads, Sings and Teaches Toddlers English

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kibot-south-korean-robot-reads-sings-teaches-toddlers/story?id=13973680
Denny
2:37 am on July 14th, 2011 27
Vietnamese woman chops off American husband’s penis and puts it in garbage disposal.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/13/catherine-kieu-becker-wom_n_897080.html
kushibo
8:52 am on July 14th, 2011 28
Denny wrote:

Vietnamese woman chops off American husband’s penis and puts it in garbage disposal.

I’m visiting the Mainland right now, and that happened right here in Orange County. It was a major story on all the Southern California stations that first day. I went channel surfing and it was simultaneously on every show that was doing their news at that moment.