I have recently started a new blog to put all my non-Korea related postings on.  This should keep this blog totally focused on Korea and northeast Asia while still providing a space for people to comment on milblog postings.  I currently have postings up about Barack Obama, the Pat Tilman case, shedding body armor in […]

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Site traffic has continued to build this month with total uniques up by over 1,500 and total visits up by over 5,000 compared to June.  The hostage crisis has brought in plenty of visitors, but the grandma rape case post continues to get high traffic as well from people searching for grandma rape on search […]

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I have decided to start doing monthly update on how well the ROK Drop blog has been doing and recognizing my top referrers.  Since I moved my site over to Wordpress last December traffic to site has slowly been building month by month.  I appreciate everyone who stops by and reads what I have to […]

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I you haven’t seen them yet, Jack Hanna Nomad has some great pictures of a wildlife encounter during one of his fishing trips.
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Highly recommend everyone go and read Michael Yon’s posting on Memorial Day. 
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Over at imbedded reporter Bill Roggio’s site one of his guest posters, a former intelligence analyst, has a good posting about the operational security issue that was raised last week concerning the milblogging community.  As it turns out the Pentagon and their public affairs offices are the biggest OPSEC violators of all:

The worst OPSEC violator […]

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UPDATE: The Stars and Stripes has a follow up article on the milblog OPSEC issue which includes yours truly.  The article also has quotes from servicemembers in Korea on this issue including this one from a Public Affairs NCO in Seoul I found interesting:

“I think there does need to be some control on the blogs. […]

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This weekend I downloaded and played with some different plug ins for Wordpress.  Unfortunately one of them knocked out my comments for while.  I had to deactivate the Gregarious Digg plugin because it doesn’t work with the K2 theme comment system.  I thought it was a pretty good plugin until I discovered it crashed my […]

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I know I have finally made it in the K-blogosphere because I have received an official Big Hominid sidebar image.  Much thanks to Kevin for the shout out.
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The link to the actual post you are looking for can be found here.  Please check out the rest of the site and the link bar for more Korea related blogs, news, and information.  Thanks for visiting. 
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The ROK Drop has been interestingly enough mentioned in the Korean media again.  The Korean news site Media Today uses quotes from my site on for a good article they wrote on the death of the ROK Army soldier SGT Yoon in Afghanistan.  I’m glad that outlets from the Korean media are reading my site […]

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Usually I just ignore e-mails critical of me and my site, but this time I figure I would respond and let people who read this site share their opinions on if I am a Korea basher or not.  Below is a email I received recently, I won’t publish the name or e-mail address of this […]

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