» by GI Korea July 5th, 2009 at 1:20 pm » Comments (0)

I'm sure this will scare the North Koreans: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Balancing act: Two special warfare soldiers try to balance on a tightrope with fans as part of practice at ...more »

» by GI Korea June 22nd, 2009 at 7:09 am » Comments (5)

This announcement means that the ROK Army is going to have an even greater firepower advantage compared to the North Koreans: South Korea plans to streamline its army by cutting the ...more »

» by GI Korea May 26th, 2009 at 4:00 pm » Comments (3)

Here is another update on the ROK Army medical officers that were court martialed for playing golf during duty hours.  The more information that comes out the worst this scandal ...more »

» by GI Korea May 22nd, 2009 at 6:58 am » Comments (10)

Remember the arrest of a number of ROK Army officers for golfing during the duty day?  Well this scandal has turned out to be much larger than originally thought: The military ...more »

» by GI Korea February 28th, 2009 at 12:04 pm » Comments (2)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="455" caption="Here is an old picture of sign in front of a ROK Army base training soldiers to serve in the Zaytun contingent in Iraq that was ...more »

» by GI Korea February 5th, 2009 at 10:09 am » Comments (2)

KBS Global today has pictures of a joint training exercise between the US 2nd Infantry Division and the ROK Army.  You can see the US tanks below maneuvering through the ...more »

» by GI Korea January 28th, 2009 at 1:01 pm » Comments (0)

Peacekeepers: Troops leaving for Lebanon cheer during a farewell ceremony at an Army camp in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province. A total of 349 troops left for the Middle Eastern nation to ...more »

» by GI Korea December 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 am » Comments (1)

Students at barracks: Students undergo training at a Marine Corps’ military base in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, Thursday. The Marine Corps holds a military camp every summer and fall in which ...more »

» by GI Korea November 26th, 2008 at 3:49 am » Comments (1)

I actually attended a firepower demonstration for one of these before and I found the K-9 to be quite an impressive piece of equipment: The South Korean government on Wednesday signed ...more »

» by GI Korea September 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm » Comments (5)

I was against the deployment of the ROK Army to Iraq from the very beginning and was glad to see the news that the ROK Army was going to finally ...more »

» by GI Korea September 22nd, 2008 at 10:23 am » Comments (9)

The PATRIOT Missiles that the Korean military bought from the Germans are now being deployed around Korea: South Korea has begun installing a billion dollars worth of second hand German Patriot ...more »

» by GI Korea August 28th, 2008 at 9:48 am » Comments (2)

I'm not surprised at all that the Korean military is finding plenty of people to volunteer for overseas service: Applications have been pouring in for overseas military service at the Zaytun ...more »