» by GI Korea March 11th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (6)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Joint military exercise: A Korean Marine, left, bumps fists with a U.S. Marine during a joint drill by South Korean and U.S. troops in Pohang, North ...more »

» by GI Korea March 3rd, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (13)

The driver of the K1 tank apparently fell asleep while driving after an over night training exercise and ran over these vehicles.  Thankfully no one was seriously hurt.  You can ...more »

» by GI Korea February 18th, 2010 at 1:00 pm » Comments (1)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="477" caption="South Korean soldiers cheer yesterday during the inauguration ceremony of United Nations peacekeeping troops bound for Haiti at a military camp in Incheon, west of Seoul. ...more »

» by GI Korea December 3rd, 2009 at 8:26 pm » Comments (3)

More details about the deployment of ROK forces to Afghanistan have been released: Korea has narrowed down the number of civilian aid workers to be sent to Afghanistan to less than ...more »

» by GI Korea November 10th, 2009 at 4:35 am » Comments (2)

This just goes to show that taxi cab related incidents are not just limited to US soldiers: A soldier who went absent without leave was caught by military police in Pocheon, ...more »

» by GI Korea November 8th, 2009 at 1:04 pm » Comments (2)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="The Defense Ministry temporarily halted Army leaves and reserve forces training starting Thursday to prevent the spread of the H1N1 influenza. (Yonhap News)"][/caption] more »

» by GI Korea November 3rd, 2009 at 8:29 am » Comments (11)

The revisions to OPLAN 5029 have been long discussed between the US and South Korea and now it seems those revisions have finally become official: South Korea and the U.S. have ...more »

» by GI Korea October 30th, 2009 at 3:49 pm » Comments (35)

It is now official, South Korea is redeploying troops back to Afghanistan: South Korea has announced it will send troops and police to Afghanistan to protect an expanded civilian reconstruction team. The ...more »

» by GI Korea October 23rd, 2009 at 4:19 am » Comments (3)

Will we one day see a DMZ defended with robots?: The age when unmanned robots will replace soldiers on the battlefield is not far off, said Kim Soo-hyun, a professor of ...more »

» by GI Korea October 19th, 2009 at 12:58 pm » Comments (8)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Oct. 16, SEOUL, South Korea -- Major General Frank A. Panter (R), outgoing commander of the U.S. Marine Corps Forces in Korea, poses with Hwang Ui-don, ...more »

» by GI Korea October 8th, 2009 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A review of the Marine Corps honor guard marks this year's Armed Forces Day at military headquarters in Gyeryongdae, South Chungcheong Province, on October 1. "][/caption] Via ...more »

» by GI Korea September 10th, 2009 at 7:25 am » Comments (7)

I have been saying this for years that the Korean military needs to start making moves now to professionalize their force simply because of demographic reasons such as this: The Korean ...more »