Monthly Archives: September 2011

Koreans Drink More Alcohol Than Anyone Else In Asia

» by GI Korea September 21st, 2011 at 8:18 am » Comments (2)

For those that have spent time in Asia this fact probably isn't surprising: Koreans drink more alcohol than any of their Asian neighbors, according to the World Health Organization. According to ...more »

Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Ends But Controversy Doesn’t

» by GI Korea September 21st, 2011 at 3:47 am » Comments (57)

As I have stated before, I am glad Don't Ask Don't Tell has ended but I get tired of all the claims of witch hunts going on against gays like ...more »

General Tucker Says 2ID Was Close To Attacking North Korea

» by GI Korea September 20th, 2011 at 6:24 pm » Comments (16)

I have been on training exercises in 2ID that have done the same thing as what is described below: The outgoing commander of the 2nd Infantry Division hinted Tuesday at just ...more »

Picture of the Day: Cheju Farming

» by GI Korea September 20th, 2011 at 1:13 pm » Comments (0)

Via Yann Arthus Bertrand. more »

President Obama Calls Military Retirement “Out of Line”

» by GI Korea September 20th, 2011 at 5:19 am » Comments (54)

It is official President Obama wants to take away the current military retirement: Included in the president’s deficit reduction plan unveiled Monday are plans to re-examine the military retirement system, calling ...more »

Minister To Resign Over Nationwide Power Outage In Korea

» by GI Korea September 19th, 2011 at 5:19 pm » Comments (7)

This is one of the things I like about Korea is that government ministers are held responsible when bad things happen like with the recent power outage in Korea: Knowledge Economy ...more »

Picture of the Day: Autumn In Gochang

» by GI Korea September 19th, 2011 at 1:07 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="A family relishes the first sign of autumn weather yesterday in a field filled with sunflowers in full bloom in Gochang, North Jeolla."]"[/caption] Via the Joong Ang ...more »

8th Army Corrects the Record On Agent Orange

» by GI Korea September 19th, 2011 at 8:20 am » Comments (6)

I guess this shouldn't come as much of a surprise that newspaper articles in the Korean media are passing off false headlines about the Agent Orange issue at Camp Carroll: Recent ...more »

North Korea Tries To Assassinate Balloon Activist Park Sang-hak

» by GI Korea September 19th, 2011 at 3:13 am » Comments (14)

Troubling news from this past weekend that the North Koreans tried to assassinate a ROK Drop favorite Park Sang-hak who is the energetic leader of Fighters For A Free North ...more »