By GI Korea on September 6th, 2011 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: Korean Bus In Afghanistan

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This is a picture I took of a Korean bus at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan. For those that don’t know there are many vehicles that are brought to Afghanistan from Korea and Japan often times with the writing of whatever prior business the vehicle was used for still on it. The Afghan contractors rent out these vehicles to NATO and the various contract companies working in Afghanistan to use. The big question many people wonder is how did these vehicles get to Afghanistan?

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Tom
1:11 pm on September 6th, 2011 1
Gangnam Children’s House?
John in CA
2:02 pm on September 6th, 2011 2
I saw buses with Korean signs (just straight out of a city in S Korea) in Kazakhstan. Didn’t know about it until I saw the buses. Strange and yet familiar.
kushibo
2:15 pm on September 6th, 2011 3
The Marmot had a post back in 2005 that highlighted this photo of a Korean bus in Mongolia.
kushibo
2:16 pm on September 6th, 2011 4
Marmot’s link is here. I would have included it in the above post, but then there’s the potential for a comment with two links to end up in the ether.
Tbonetylr
3:11 pm on September 6th, 2011 5
Let me guess, by boat?
Teadrinker
3:36 pm on September 6th, 2011 6
#4,

To Afghanistan?
JoeC
4:33 pm on September 6th, 2011 7
Those are the buses the pre-schools in Korea send out to pick up and drop off the little kids.

Would NATO and contractors actually use those things on the Afghan roadways? And IED would turn it into little yellow snowflakes.
Teadrinker
6:13 pm on September 6th, 2011 8
“Those are the buses the pre-schools in Korea send out to pick up and drop off the little kids.”

Obviously.

“Would NATO and contractors actually use those things on the Afghan roadways? And IED would turn it into little yellow snowflakes.”

Funny thought, but it wouldn’t be my only concern if I saw I had to ride in that thing. Yellow with furry little animals painted in bright colors on the side? It’s a target. It’s probably not the most reliable vehicles either. Just imagine the mileage it must have if the Korean dealership couldn’t find a hagwon to unload it on. Those Combi buses are at least 10 years old, and I don’t think the parts are easy to come by in Afghanistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kia_Combi