ROK Special Forces train in the snow. Image via Tumblr.
If this story is true it sure doesn’t make the ROK special forces soldiers look all that intimidating to get beat up by some toughs at a bar even if they were drunk:
It took place during the peak of the holiday season, the 15th of December, 4:00 a.m. The setting was a bar in a restaurant district of Hwayang, in Seoul.
In the early morning hours, four male non-commissioned officers and two female soldiers from the Songpa Special Forces Base were drinking, dancing, and enjoying their freedom off-base.
It was at that moment that three junior officers from the same base, who were seated at the neighboring table, caught their attention. The younger officers seemed to be neglecting to pay the proper respect to their senior officers.
“What do you young guys think you’re doing, turning your backs on us and being so rude?”
The bar, filled with customers, suddenly grew tense as the physically imposing soldiers started to argue. The owner of the bar, worried about losing business during the busy holiday season, came out and tried to calm the rising tempers, but it was no use.
It was at that moment that the furious owner stripped off his shirt, exposing a tattoo on his chest of a coiled dragon. [Korea Bang]
You can read the rest of this story at the Korea Bang link, but I have to wonder if this group was really special forces or not? They could have just been personnel assigned to conduct admin or supply duty for the special forces unit. Has anybody else read anything about this story?
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2:41 am on January 4th, 2013 1
“physically imposing”?
Who ever wrote that never saw the above picture.
2:44 am on January 4th, 2013 2
Heck, I’m in my ’40s, I’ve been too busy to go to the gym for the last 4 months (so I’ve lost a good 10-20 pounds of muscle mass), and I’ve got better muscle tone than the guys in the picture.
5:10 am on January 4th, 2013 3
You didn’t lose that muscle mass in your head, though. Teadrinker bragging about himself is like clockwork.
7:07 am on January 4th, 2013 4
They must’ve really been hammered, however, at least one of the guys on the bar’s side was a pro boxer. You don’t ever want to mess with even an amateur boxer.
7:10 am on January 4th, 2013 5
Wow, not only are they humiliated by the bar owner/workers, they then accepted a paid settlement from the bar owner. Imagine the smirk on the bar owner’s face as he’s handing over the money and saying “Sorry to kick your ass bro”!
7:18 am on January 4th, 2013 6
#3,
Not bragging, just saying I’m unimpressed by the picture, and not just because the guys don’t look particularly fit. Really, shirtless in an inch of snow is supposed to show how tough they are? I’ve seen women do worse.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/01/01/polar-bear-swim-2013-new-years_n_2392724.html
7:20 am on January 4th, 2013 7
# 2,
But they know Karate.
7:23 am on January 4th, 2013 8
#7,
And I know Taekwondo, but that means shit when you are being shot at.
7:25 am on January 4th, 2013 9
…or when you’re fighting against civilians who aren’t pussies, evidently.
7:51 am on January 4th, 2013 10
It’s confirmed. Teadrinker is a fat a$$.
Those guys look fit to me, especially after those same guys freed dozens of hostages taken by Somalian pirates without incurring any casualties to themselves and the hostages (other than the captain of the hostage ship who got shot but survived). In a firefight, they killed the hostage takers.
9:27 am on January 4th, 2013 11
Odds are that everyone involved was falling down drunk and the official police report is mostly fiction pieced together from about 100 contradictory stories.
9:59 am on January 4th, 2013 12
I know Newton’s laws of motion. Approach me at your peril.
11:34 am on January 4th, 2013 13
While on vacation I watched my friends neighbor take out the trash in shorts and muscle shirt when it was -18C, does that make him tough like those SF guys in the pic?
3:53 pm on January 4th, 2013 14
#10.
Fat? Never been fat a day of my life. I have a 32 inch waist. The guys in the picture lack muscle definition. You must be a skinny little f not to notice.
5:26 pm on January 4th, 2013 15
Sure, 32 inch waste and 160cm tall.
Don’t worry fat a$$. They’re just recent recruits. They’re not going to be spending all their time lifting weights. But once they finish their trainings, they’ll be looking like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAvfeXxkcxw
7:08 pm on January 4th, 2013 16
#15,
Thanks for proving once again that you’re a moron.
7:09 pm on January 4th, 2013 17
That video, unimpressed. Those guys look like they could eat less rice and more protein.
7:53 pm on January 4th, 2013 18
I’ve never seen a Yangnom seki who is over the age of 30 who doesn’t have a fat to muscle ratio of under 30% – unless they’re in the military. And that’s pretty pathetically fat. You wouldn’t even last an hour training with those special forces guys without dropping dead, teadrinker.
7:54 pm on January 4th, 2013 19
Wrongly worded. I meant to say
I’ve never seen a Yangnom seki who is over the age of 30 who has a fat to muscle ratio of under 30%.
8:05 pm on January 4th, 2013 20
Trollers be trollin’ and feeders be feedin’.
9:10 pm on January 4th, 2013 21
#18,
Right, because playing in an inch of snow is a really hard workout. Makes me wonder how I survived growing up in Canada. Gee, thanks for making me realize that it was child abuse when my parents allowed me to go outside to dig tunnels in the snow when it was -35C.
9:33 pm on January 4th, 2013 22
…Hell, you get your racial slurs mixed-up and you can’t even type in Korean. And you want us to believe you’re Korean? Pathetic. Stop trying to stir the pot.
And FYI, I used to workout with a guy who was a Captain in the South Korean special forces before I met him. He made the guys in that picture and in that video of yours look like 12 year-old boys. Yes, you don’t plaster the pictures of your top soldiers all over the news.
9:39 pm on January 4th, 2013 23
hahaha
9:52 pm on January 4th, 2013 24
#23,
Yes, see how I pulled Tom out from under his bridge? Like a moth attracted to a flashlight.
9:56 pm on January 4th, 2013 25
And it’s true, I have a friend who was in the Korean special forces. Makes the kids in the above picture and in Tom’s video look pretty harmless. As I was saying, you don’t plaster the face of your top soldiers everywhere.
10:32 pm on January 4th, 2013 26
One Korean special forces recruit can whip your white skinned donkey a$$. You wouldn’t last an hour, doing the same training as those Korean super humans are put through, and I ain’t talking about playing in the snow, you dumba$$
How is it possible Teadrinker knows so many people and be in convenient positions to have experienced it all? He brags so much about everything and everything that he was able to do. 
11:17 pm on January 4th, 2013 27
Tom and Teadrinker, just kiss and make up. Meanwhile, back to the jist of the story, were the guys in the picture the ones that got their azzez kicked? I wouldn’t mess with them, but I’m a lot older, slower, and tougher than I used to be. Fortunately, I’m slightly smarter.
11:34 pm on January 4th, 2013 28
#26,
Only one of us is a white guy, and it ain’t me.
#27,
Bah, I’m not that old yet. I’ve been into bodybuilding longer than they’ve been alive.
2:05 am on January 5th, 2013 29
One thing that hadn’t been mentioned is that nearly all the boys in Korea are required to do some few months of military service…though I know we did more in the Boy Scouts (USA) than most of the special forces guys do over here. That being said, the boys that got it handed to them were in all likelihood smashed by other folks just out of the military. Saying that they were bested by ‘just’ some civvies is fairly misleading.
2:13 am on January 5th, 2013 30
#29,
Nah, that’s not it. They picked a fight with the bar owner and his employees, all of which were apparently athletes (a pro boxer and physical education students). They were outnumbered nearly two to one, too. They were stupid and arrogant for trying.
2:24 am on January 5th, 2013 31
…or rather, several of them were “college athletes” (Taekwondo team? Better yet, wrestlers?). They were asking for it, and they got it. So, the owner had to pay up some money. I wouldn’t be surprised if the local bar owners’ association helped him out.
PS. A few weeks back we went to the first birthday party of my wife’s friend’s son. Her husband owns a very popular drinking establishment. We were sitting there, and the room was packed full of, how shall I say, tough looking guys (most probably other bar owners). I turned to my wife and I said, “You know what. I think this is probably the safest place in town at the moment.” She looked around and nodded with a grin.
10:53 pm on January 5th, 2013 32
Someone has to post that picture of the ROK “soldiers” doing sit ups on each other. they wrap their legs around the other guys neck, ass to his crotch and do repeated gay sit ups. C’mon…someone has to have this picture. It is the gayest thing ever!
10:57 pm on January 5th, 2013 33
The above picture sure does have a lot of man-on-man action!
11:59 pm on January 5th, 2013 34
Baek In-je wrote (#32):
For your viewing pleasure, BIJ.
4:00 am on January 6th, 2013 35
#34,
As George Takei would say, “Oh, my!”.
6:28 am on January 6th, 2013 36
#34: Awesome blog, Kushibo!
6:53 am on January 6th, 2013 37
“Someone has to post that picture of the ROK “soldiers” doing sit ups on each other. they wrap their legs around the other guys neck, ass to his crotch and do repeated gay sit ups. C’mon…someone has to have this picture. It is the gayest thing ever!”
#32,
http://rokdrop.com/2012/12/26/should-servicemembers-be-allowed-to-have-sex-in-the-barracks/
9:04 am on January 6th, 2013 38
I’ve been trying to post this, but it keeps getting reject.
This is for you, Kushibo.
9:05 am on January 6th, 2013 39
Sorry, meant to type rejected… and cool, it’s up!
10:16 am on January 6th, 2013 40
10:57 am on January 6th, 2013 41
Kushibo’s link reminded me of this quote. Hope the link works:
7:42 pm on January 6th, 2013 42
Thanks, Kushibo. Shout out to Kushibo (I think that I saw that picture on your blog.) That is the gayest thing that I have ever seen. Gayer than Brokeback Mountain, Liberace, everyone in the Castro, Greenwich Village, and Gay Paris put together. Tom could get into a circle jerk with every boy band, make-up wearing, ajumma-hairdo having guy on the K-Pop Ton 10 and it still wouldn’t be gayer than that picture.
Do you get what I’m saying? gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay gay!
8:14 pm on January 6th, 2013 43
..not that there’s anything WRONG with that…
7:51 am on January 7th, 2013 44
#34: Saw Marines doing something like this at Fort Leonard Wood.
7:57 am on January 7th, 2013 45
#43,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZPcGapl2dM
But, I have to wonder. Are Koreans oblivious about homosexuality to the point of missing the homoerotic nature of that workout and picture?
8:00 am on January 7th, 2013 46
…Then again, health and fitness magazines in the started out as a way to get around the laws against gay porn in the US (or so I read), so it’s not as if Americans have always had a well-tuned gaydar.
8:01 am on January 7th, 2013 47
Correction: “magazines started”. Crappy cutting and pasting job.
8:11 am on January 7th, 2013 48
#45: Could be. I still remember my old boss “Mr Jin”, singing “I will be your man” directly to my husband at the karaoke bar.
He was (ostensibly) straight.
10:16 am on January 7th, 2013 49
48
Maybe his grasp of English wasn’t great. That picture, on the other hand…
11:35 am on January 7th, 2013 50
Below the picture, in the comments section, there’s an entire discussion about this very thing.
4:47 pm on January 7th, 2013 51
#50
It was a rhetorical question. I think it screams “our superior officer has repressed homosexual tendencies”.
5:45 pm on January 7th, 2013 52
…and I partially disagree with the argument you’re making in the comments after that picture. Although most people probably thought, “Gee, these guys are tough” as you suggest, I have no doubt that it also raised some people’s eyebrows.
6:31 pm on January 7th, 2013 53
Only their eyebrows?
6:37 pm on January 7th, 2013 54
#53,
Good point.
5:51 am on January 9th, 2013 55
Excerpt from the rest of the story (at the Korea Bang link):
“Twenty-two-year-old Sergeant Han and four of the NCOs were arrested for assaulting the bar employees and causing injury. On December 28th, the Seoul Police announced that the soldiers had been turned over to the military police.”
Shit, had they been off-duty American GIs, they’d still be in the Korean clink! And who says the SOFA doesn’t set a double standard.
9:47 pm on February 17th, 2013 56
#56,
because there are only two races known to the entire human race, amirite?