Posts Tagged With: Korea

Picture of the Day: Health Check Time

» by GI Korea January 30th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (4)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A boy frowns as his blood is taken out for a blood test during a health check that was provided for free to preschool children by ...more »

Key Resolve Exercise To Begin Late Next Month

» by GI Korea January 28th, 2012 at 11:07 pm » Comments (6)

From KBS: The South Korea-U.S. Combined Forces Command (CFC) says its biggest annual military drill will kick off late next month, and it has already notified North Korea of the impending ...more »

PACOM Commander Says No Major Changes Expected In Korea After Troop Cuts Announced

» by GI Korea January 28th, 2012 at 5:50 pm » Comments (4)

There is going to be a whole lot of military personnel out of a job in the coming years however, these cuts are not expected to significantly impact the troop ...more »

GNP Announces That It Will Reveal Its New Name On Monday

» by GI Korea January 28th, 2012 at 6:48 am » Comments (5)

Are Korean voters really dumb enough to fall for this?: Campaign strategists push for a change in the name of political parties when facing an extremely unfavorable campaign landscape, as they ...more »

ROK & US Marines To Expand Military Cooperation

» by GI Korea January 27th, 2012 at 8:52 am » Comments (0)

It looks like the Korean peninsula is going to be seeing a heavier US Marine Corps presence in the future as military cooperation between the ROK & US Marine Corps ...more »

US To Import M1 Rifles From South Korea

» by GI Korea January 27th, 2012 at 3:40 am » Comments (20)

For those of you who collect classic firearms it appears that you may have a good shot of buying a Korean War era M1 soon: The U.S. is set to import ...more »

Korean Government Pushes For Tougher Penalties Against Illegal Chinese Fishermen

» by GI Korea January 26th, 2012 at 11:36 pm » Comments (3)

Hopefully these fines and confiscation of their boats will be enough to get these thug Chinese fishermen to respect Korean waters: The government will submit a bill next month for a ...more »

Ex-South Korean Spy’s Asylum In the US Confirmed

» by GI Korea January 24th, 2012 at 11:59 am » Comments (3)

A US court has confirmed a previous asylum ruling that an ex-South Korean intelligence official who disclosed to the US how former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung got the North ...more »

English Teacher Confesses To Murdering His Korean Wife

» by GI Korea January 23rd, 2012 at 8:43 am » Comments (22)

It will be interesting to see how many years in prison this Canadian receives for murdering his Korean girlfriend: A Canadian has turned himself in to Korean police and confessed to ...more »

ROK Drop Korean Movie Review: Castaway On The Moon

» by GI Korea January 21st, 2012 at 5:07 pm » Comments (9)

The movie, Castaway On The Moon, I didn't have high expectations of when I saw it added to the ever growing list of Korean movies to be streamed on Netflix. ...more »