» by GI Korea June 19th, 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="attachment_14215" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Foreign journalists look at the demilitarized zone through iron fences at an observatory in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi, yesterday on a tour program sponsored by the Korean government. ...more »

» by GI Korea May 29th, 2009 at 8:00 pm » Comments (0)

I guess it shouldn't be surprising nobody is answering the phone currently on the northern half of the Joint Security Area: North Korean soldiers stood yards away glaring at their ...more »

» by GI Korea April 27th, 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (3)

[caption id="attachment_12741" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Imjingak Pavilion, a famous tourist spot in Gyeonggi Province near the inter-Korean border, has recently been renovated. (Yonhap News)"][/caption] You can read more about Imjingak here. more »

» by GI Korea April 12th, 2009 at 2:05 am » Comments (2)

Via One Free Korea comes this PBS video depicting life for North Korean defector children in South Korea: It is a tear jerker to think that this girl's parents gave everything ...more »

» by GI Korea April 2nd, 2009 at 7:52 pm » Comments (14)

Here is a ville memory from the small Korean village of Changpa-ri in 1969: The deuce-and-a-half revs it diesel engine as thick black smoke billows from its exhaust pipe curved toward ...more »

» by GI Korea March 31st, 2009 at 7:22 pm » Comments (2)

In the late night darkness of the Korean DMZ on April 17, 1968 one of the deadliest incidents along this tension filled border would occur.  That nigh four UN Command ...more »

» by GI Korea March 24th, 2009 at 2:52 am » Comments (2)

A pleasant day trip a buddy of mine and I went on the last time I was in Korea was to the Odusan Unification Observatory just north of Seoul. The ...more »

» by GI Korea March 2nd, 2009 at 9:52 am » Comments (2)

It looks like the North Koreans are continuing to set the conditions to provoke some kind of DMZ incident: The North Korean military sent a message to the South Korea armed ...more »

» by GI Korea February 13th, 2009 at 3:26 pm » Comments (0)

USFK Servicemembers have once again saved a rural South Korean school from shutting down: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="150" caption="USFK servicemembers volunteer at Daesungdong Elementary School located inside the DMZ."][/caption] A public elementary ...more »

» by GI Korea December 30th, 2008 at 4:02 pm » Comments (16)

Background In 1966 North Korea began a campaign to infiltrate increasing amount of communist agents into South Korea along with well trained special operations troops to launch attacks against US ...more »

» by GI Korea December 25th, 2008 at 4:19 pm » Comments (1)

Rate My Hagwon has an absolutely incredible documentary video of Edward R. Murrow visiting front line US troops during Christmas in 1953 Korea: Watch CBS Videos Online Murrow is interviewing Marines from ...more »

» by GI Korea October 23rd, 2008 at 8:37 am » Comments (0)

It looks like Korea may get yet another UNESCO designation: An international conference dealing with the creation of an ecological park in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) will open in Goyang, ...more »