Monthly Archives: September 2011

Picture of the Day: Hockey Fight

» by GI Korea September 30th, 2011 at 1:00 pm » Comments (22)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Players of the High 1 team and Anyang Halla team engage in fierce competition during the 2011-2012 Asia League Ice Hockey match held in Goyang, Gyeonggi ...more »

Did Korea Pay More For Camp Humphreys Relocation Costs Than What Was Reported?

» by GI Korea September 29th, 2011 at 5:32 pm » Comments (13)

That is what Wikileaks has supposedly released that the South Korean media is now running with: South Korea vastly under reported its share of the cost of a massive U.S. base ...more »

Picture of Day: Reenacting the Nakdong River Battle

» by GI Korea September 29th, 2011 at 1:03 pm » Comments (16)

Soldiers dressed in the clothes of South Korea and North Korea engage in hand-to-hand fighting as they re-enact one of historical crucial battles of the 1950-53 Korean War along the ...more »

2nd Infantry Division Soldier Arrested For Rape of Korean Woman In Dongducheon

» by GI Korea September 29th, 2011 at 9:02 am » Comments (52)

This is not good: The U.S. government on Wednesday vowed full cooperation in the investigation into an alleged rape by an American soldier of a young Korean woman near a military ...more »

South Korea To Build Naval Base On Ulleungdo To Respond To Dokdo Contingency

» by GI Korea September 28th, 2011 at 5:51 pm » Comments (43)

Not only is the South Korean island getting a new airport built, but now even a naval base is going to be built as well: According to the Hanguk Ilbo, the ...more »

Picture of the Day: Frozen Paroho Lake

» by GI Korea September 28th, 2011 at 1:17 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="401" caption="Fishing net on a frozen lake, Paroho Lake, South Korea"][/caption] Via Yann Arthus Bertrand. more »

US Troops See Steep Increase In Degenerative Arthritis

» by GI Korea September 28th, 2011 at 3:24 am » Comments (10)

Here is something I have personally seen increasing at great rate in the US military: “When you hear ‘arthritis,’ you think it’s a disease you get as you age, an elderly ...more »

Controversial World Cup Referee Caught Smuggling Heroin

» by GI Korea September 28th, 2011 at 2:46 am » Comments (20)

Via Kushibo comes this news that the referee some people accused of being corrupt during South Korea's World Cup run in 2002 has been sent to jail for drug smuggling: The ...more »

Everland & Lotte World Rank Among the World’s Top Tourist Attractions

» by GI Korea September 27th, 2011 at 5:56 pm » Comments (38)

I actually knew that Lotte World and Everland were two of the most visited tourist attractions in the world but it is interesting to see how they are more popular ...more »