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Monthly Archives: July 2011

Pyeongchang To Find Out Soon If They Will Host 2018 Winter Olympics

» by July 5th, 2011 at 4:52 pm » Comments (65)

Will the third time be the charm for Pyeongchang? One day ahead of the announcement of the host, PyeongChang is trying to attract IOC votes by emphasizing the city as the ...more »

Picture of the Day: Statue of Freedom Cake

» by July 5th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (9)

[flickr id="5904831887" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] This is a picture of a Statue of Freedom cake on display in a DFAC in southern Afghanistan last year for the 4th of ...more »

ROK Marine Goes On Shooting Rampage Killing 4 Fellow Marines

» by July 5th, 2011 at 7:44 am » Comments (23)

Via JoeC in the comments section comes this story of a shooting rampage that left 4 ROK Marines dead: A Marine Corps corporal killed four soldiers and wounded another in a ...more »

Korea’s Got Talent Has It’s Susan Boyle Moment

» by July 5th, 2011 at 3:36 am » Comments (4)

Some of you have probably already seen this, but if you have it is still well worth watching again: Pretty inspiring and his story is true though Korea's Got Talent edited ...more »

Picture of the Day: 4th of July In Afghanistan

» by July 4th, 2011 at 12:33 pm » Comments (24)

[flickr id="5900538333" thumbnail="medium" overlay="true" size="large" group="" align="none"] As some of you know who were early followers of me on Facebook, I returned back to the US from deploying to Afghanistan this ...more »

Video Footage Shows Starving North Korean Soldiers & Children

» by July 4th, 2011 at 4:22 am » Comments (11)

Pretty amazing video here shot by a guerrilla cameraman of starving children and soldiers in North Korea: You can read more about this over at One Free Korea. more »

Picture of the Day: Thanks Runs Forever

» by July 3rd, 2011 at 12:43 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="432" caption="There’s a Korean War photo exhibition outside Daejeon Train Station which thanks the 67 UN member governments that supported the Korean War (16 nations sent troops ...more »

California Marines accused of sham marriages for money

» by July 3rd, 2011 at 7:36 am » Comments (18)

Money and Marriage..... Military officials are charging three California-based Marine corporals with fraud and larceny for entering in a pair of sham marriages to collect housing funding, officials ...more »

ROK Drop Open Thread – July 03, 2011

» by July 3rd, 2011 at 3:42 am » Comments (12)

Please leave any story links or anything else you want to discuss in the comments section. more »

Many Korean Students Say They Would Flee the Country If North Korea Attacked

» by July 2nd, 2011 at 8:55 pm » Comments (55)

A poll taken recently of South Korea students shows that 44% of them would flee the country if North Korea attacked while only 15% of them would stay and fight.  ...more »

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