» by GI Korea May 1st, 2012 at 5:55 pm » Comments (4)

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 ...more »

» by GI Korea 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 ...more »

» by GI Korea July 25th, 2011 at 5:26 am » Comments (22)

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 ...more »

» by GI Korea 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 ...more »

» by GI Korea July 18th, 2011 at 3:50 am » Comments (1)

One of things I did on my recent trip to Korea was to stop by Uijongbu and takes some pictures of the old USFK camps that were closed within the ...more »

» by GI Korea July 17th, 2011 at 5:04 am » Comments (29)

Here we go again: A U.S. soldier was arrested Sunday for allegedly breaking into the home of an elderly Korean woman and assaulting her, local police said. The 27-year-old staff sergeant, identified ...more »

» by GI Korea July 11th, 2011 at 3:33 am » Comments (6)

The most well known and most often hiked mountain in the South Korean city of Uijongbu (also spelled Uijeongbu) is without a doubt the extremely beautiful Dobong-san Mountain.  However, there ...more »

» by GI Korea August 22nd, 2010 at 3:00 am » Comments (51)

From Bruce Richards' great site comes this picture of Camp Kyle in Uijongbu in the late 1960's.  Notice Dobongsan Mountain in the background: For those of us that have been stationed ...more »

» by GI Korea December 23rd, 2009 at 3:08 am » Comments (7)

Here is something that should really help reduce the traffic in Uijongbu once it is completed: When I came to Uijeongbu in August 2007 a series of cement pillars were being ...more »

» by GI Korea October 9th, 2009 at 1:38 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Mangwolsa Temple was founded by the great monk Haehohwasang in the 8th year of the reign of King Seondeok (AD639) during the Silla Kingdom as a ...more »