Posts Tagged With: Korea

“Korea Suburb” To Be Constructed In Hobart, Tasmania

» by GI Korea February 8th, 2012 at 5:45 pm » Comments (5)

I am real curious to see if this nearly billion dollar development ever gets built: WORK on a $900 million Korean suburb on Hobart's Eastern Shore will start within a year ...more »

Video of Korean Riot Police Conducting Realistic Training Exercise

» by GI Korea February 8th, 2012 at 8:28 am » Comments (6)

Via a reader tip comes this interesting video of the Korean riot police conducting a very realistic training drill: I had to chuckle at some of the comments left on YouTube ...more »

English Teaching Business Linked To Cheating Scandal In Korea

» by GI Korea February 7th, 2012 at 10:08 am » Comments (9)

What I am most surprised about in regards to the below article is not the cheating because cheating scandals are numerous in Korea; what I am most amazed about is ...more »

Plan Calls for Okinawa Based Marines To Rotate Through Korea

» by GI Korea February 7th, 2012 at 7:17 am » Comments (14)

Now the delays and changes to the US plan to relocate Marines from the island now involves Korea: Some U.S. marines stationed in Okinawa will likely move to South Korea under ...more »

Faces In Korea: Muhammad Ali

» by GI Korea February 6th, 2012 at 5:34 pm » Comments (29)

One of the side benefits of having US military servicemembers stationed in Korea is that many famous celebrities have come to visit the troops there over the years. However, there ...more »

Picture of the Day: Keeping Warm In 1946 Korea

» by GI Korea February 5th, 2012 at 12:43 pm » Comments (15)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="We stayed in an old schoolroom while stationed at Seoul, Korea.I recall Jaunary being quite cold. The stove was our only source of heat. We used ...more »

Severe Cold Weather Hits South Korea

» by GI Korea February 2nd, 2012 at 11:53 pm » Comments (9)

Its look like Korea is going to go through a cold start to the month of February: Korea is in the grip of another cold spell ahead of Ipchun or the ...more »

Making Excuses for Korean War Criminals?

» by GI Korea January 31st, 2012 at 3:40 am » Comments (0)

That is what this editorial in the Korea Times is doing in regards to Korean convicted as war criminals in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II: Hiromura Gakurai was ...more »

MBC Reporters Go On Strike Due To Lack of Left Wing Bias at the Station

» by GI Korea January 30th, 2012 at 11:59 pm » Comments (3)

The Chinboistas at MBC have decided to go on strike: Unionists of South Korea's public broadcaster MBC went on an indefinite general strike early Monday, demanding the resignation of the president ...more »

Faces In Korea: Robert Kennedy

» by GI Korea January 30th, 2012 at 5:52 pm » Comments (9)

The Korean peninsula first came to the notice of Robert Kennedy like most other Americans when the North Koreans invaded the South while he was honeymooning with his wife Ethel in ...more »