» by GI Korea May 25th, 2012 at 5:01 pm » Comments (4)

Welcome home: The remains of South Korean soldiers killed in North Korea during the Korean War returned home on Friday via the U.S., marking the first such repatriation of South Korean ...more »

» by GI Korea May 10th, 2012 at 8:27 am » Comments (5)

For some reason I just don't buy the reason given on why the ROK government is dispatching troops to aid the UN mission in South Sudan: Korea’s plan to dispatch peacekeeping ...more »

» by GI Korea May 2nd, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="Soldiers of the 20th Mechanized Infantry Division riding an armored infantry fighting vehicle conduct a river-crossing drill in the Namhan River in Yeoju, south of Seoul, ...more »

» by GI Korea March 8th, 2012 at 12:58 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="A soldier from the South Korean Army's special forces checks whether a train station is contaminated in the city of Chuncheon, northeast of Seoul, on March ...more »

» by GI Korea March 6th, 2012 at 5:13 pm » Comments (2)

Considering all the insults leveled by the North Koreans at members of the ROK government I really hope no one in the ROK Army gets in trouble for this: North Korea ...more »

» by GI Korea March 3rd, 2012 at 5:52 pm » Comments (6)

Here is an interesting story about a former ROK Army soldier that is currently attending the University of Pennsylvania: Not long after shells had rained down on Yeonpyeong Island off the ...more »

» by GI Korea March 2nd, 2012 at 5:22 pm » Comments (11)

As always remember that these sources from North Korea cannot be independently validated at that they may just be telling journalists what they want to hear: Radio Free Asia says roughly ...more »

» by GI Korea February 21st, 2012 at 6:24 am » Comments (29)

Via a reader tip from the Open Thread comes this article about prostitution in Paju: Lee Eun-ju, a loan officer at a savings bank, was shocked to see a huge red ...more »

» by GI Korea February 20th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Lee Jun-ki, who rose to stardom by starring in the movie "The King and the Clown," was discharged from the military on Thursday after serving his ...more »

» by GI Korea February 7th, 2012 at 11:38 pm » Comments (4)

This seems like an unenforceable regulation, what is the ROK military going to do, have smartphone inspections every week?: Troops from two South Korean army units stationed near the North Korea ...more »