March 16th, 2013 at 9:14 am » Comments (10)

Remember the six US soldiers accused of sexual harassment on the subway?  Well two of them have been hit with UCMJ while the ROK authorities decide what to do with this case: While local authorities continue to investigate a subway incident in which a half-dozen U.S. soldiers were accused of harassing a Korean woman, the American military has started handing out its own punishment. The commander of the 2nd Infantry Division’s Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion imposed “non-judicial punishment” under Article 15 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice on two
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December 14th, 2012 at 3:33 am » Comments (54)

During the period of 2000-2004 USFK servicemembers were subject to a number of anti-American incidents especially after the 2002 Armored Vehicle Accident where an environment was created that encouraged altercations with US military members.  Arguably the worst anti-American incident during this time period was the 2002 Subway Kidnapping.  In September  2002 three USFK servicemembers, Private John Murphy, Private Eric Owens, and Private Shane Tucker were traveling back to Camp Red Cloud in Uijongbu from Seoul on the subway system that runs between the two cities. The three soldiers were sitting
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November 17th, 2012 at 6:07 pm » Comments (8)

It looks like the local governments in Dongducheon and Uijongbu are taking notice as well of the fact that appears that the 2nd Infantry has little interest in closing their installations by 2016: Officials with two cities north of Seoul have expressed concern the U.S. military will not be moving out as scheduled in 2016, which would throw a wrench into the plans they have for the bases to be vacated. “We have no anti-American sentiment — not even 0.1 percent,” said Lim Sang-o, head of the Dongducheon Municipal Assembly’s
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August 20th, 2012 at 3:52 am » Comments (21)

I guess one way to look at this recent crime in Uijongbu is to be thankful at least he did not have access to a firearm: Eight people were injured in a knife rampage at a subway station near Seoul on Saturday. The victims were stabbed or cut by a man wielding a box-cutter, but none of the victims’ injuries are believed to be life-threatening, police said. The incident happened at around 6:35 p.m. when a man began stabbing people on a running train heading to Seoul from Uijeongbu Station
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June 26th, 2012 at 5:51 am » Comments (15)

Over at Yonhap they have an article posted about Uijongbu’s Budaejjigae Street: In the city of Uijeongbu, about 20 kilometers northeast of Seoul, there is a small road named after a stew, with a sign above it that reads in capital letters, “Uijeongbu Budaejjigae Street.” According to the owners of many of the restaurants that line this street, Uijeongbu — and by some accounts, this very street — is where “budae jjigae,” one of South Korea’s most popular dishes, was invented. “Budae jjigae started with leftovers from the U.S. Army
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June 18th, 2012 at 6:31 am » Comments (4)

Via a Open Thread reader tip comes this update on the LRT line constructed in Uijongbu known as the U-Line: With sleek railcars sliding along elevated tracks, South Korea’s newest light railway is a smooth ride, and the hope is that it can avoid the fiscal train wreck facing similar projects. But passenger estimates for the rubber-wheeled, driverless light rail transit (LRT) system, which will open to the public in Uijeongbu city north of Seoul on July 1, have already been scaled back. And government researchers say the 11.1-kilometre (6.9
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May 1st, 2012 at 5:55 pm » Comments (8)

The South Korean city of Uijongbu has a long history of being host to hundreds of thousands of US Soldiers over the past 60 years.  Out of all the current and past US military bases in the city Camp Stanley has housed more Soldiers than any other: View Camp Stanley in a larger map Where Camp Stanley is located today was originally a truck depot during the Korean War and became a tent city to house troops following the war.  The tent city was eventually named after Colonel Thomas H. Stanley in
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October 22nd, 2011 at 5:10 pm » Comments (4)

The Marmot’s Hole has an update on the USFK soldier who was sexually assaulted by a Korean man in Uijongbu back in July: A court in Uijeongbu has sentenced a 26-year-old man named Ju to three years, six months in prison for a July sexual assault on an 18-year-old female American soldier, reports the Hankyoreh (and others). In its judgment, the court took into consideration the heinous nature of the crime, the pain inflicted on the victim and the fact that no deal was reached with her. It also took into consideration,
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July 25th, 2011 at 5:26 am » Comments (29)

The northern Seoul suburb of Uijongbu has long been just a sleepy farming village north of Seoul of little consequence in Korean history. View Larger Map However all this would change in 1950 when it became a pivotal battlefield during the Korean War.  The terrain around Uijongbu provided the last natural defensive positions before the North Korean army could reach Seoul.  After the ROK Army forces lost the Battle of Uijongbu the gates to Seoul were open and the city would eventually fall only days after the North Korean invasion. 
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July 18th, 2011 at 9:22 am » Comments (3)

Via a reader tip comes this news about a US Army private sexually assaulted by a Korean man in Uijongbu: The Uijeongbu Police Station in Gyeonggi-do is investigating after apprehending 25-year-old Mr. A on July 11 on charges of sexually assaulting a female member of the US military. According to police, at approximately 3am on July 11, Mr. A sexually assaulted 18-year-old Ms. B, a private in the 2nd infantry division, in the 3rd basement level of a building in Uijeongbu. The police investigation found that Mr. A was drinking
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