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Posted: 2/2/2006 1:10:48 AM EDT
My Boy's serving in SK. He was driving a 2.5 ton when a whack job korean,[note small "k"], was weaving through traffic,clipped the transport, and proceeded to roll his soju powered "K-car" through 4 lanes of oncoming "K-cars". At this point you'd normally think... Idiot korean, 2.5 ton transport, cool.
Well, spanky, that's not where it ends. Said korean, through the backing of our bestest friends in the whole wide world  , the korean .gov, have decided that in any accident the vehicle with the least damage for those following along in Rio Linda that would be the transport, is automatically at fault. So, the korean.gov is holding my boy at fault, and in addition, said sojumaninKcar is suing.Fortunately my boy was driving with a person who had stripes on his shoulder, and in fact was the lookout; apparently a valuable position on the wild streets of k-town. It's being resolved today, no worries he'll be cleared of wrongdoing. Freakin third world shithole. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 1:24:34 AM EDT
[#1]
Wow, when did SK become a 3rd world country?
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Posted: 2/2/2006 1:28:20 AM EDT
[#2]
Ever since a slimy sud korean sued my boy. 
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Posted: 2/2/2006 2:17:18 AM EDT
[#3]
He's got nothing to worry about. The Koreans have been dipping into the American purse for over 50 years and will continue to do so. Nothing will happen to your boy but the negligent Hangul speaky driver will get a pay day. My driver rolled part way onto someone's property (in the ROK). It was damaged as a result. The US.gov paid him enough money to cover the worth of his entire farm. Nothing negative happened to my driver.
No cause for alarm. And most of the older Koreans are wonderful people. It's the college aged whipper-snappers that create most of the havoc. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 2:23:36 AM EDT
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Thanks 82nd.
It just irks me that we spend billions covering the arses of "allies", with no apparent appreciation. Although I've never been to SK, from what my son says the Koreans, in general, are fine people. With the exception of aforementioned sojuman. 
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Posted: 2/2/2006 2:25:47 AM EDT
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My wife has been there twice with the NG. Her only comment about the place has been that it stinks. When she gets home she airs out her gear and says that she has to do it cause it smells like Korea and she ca't stand it. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 3:19:46 AM EDT
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Oh, it definitely stinks over there. When I landed in Texas at the DFW Airport, one of the first things I did was walk outside and take a deep breath.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 3:20:00 AM EDT
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While I was there I noticed a few things:
No american cars on the road owned by Koreans. Seems they don't allow them to be imported but they ship plenty of theirs to us... Someone already mentioned them having their hand in Uncle Sam's pocket. Lots of Korean hotels were built with our money. No room on base? Stay in a Korean hotel for a couple of weeks with uncle sugar paying the bill. Everyone is obsessed with money, your money, and how they can get it. The older folks were nice. I was happy to leave. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 3:29:15 AM EDT
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... taggage, I be traveling to Korean next month
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Posted: 2/2/2006 3:32:15 AM EDT
[#9]
you ever been to sk? definitely a third world country! |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 3:59:07 AM EDT
[#10]
Ahh, the smell of kimchi,
the sound of dog farms, the Osan $6 whore. 8 friggin days, and I am off this rock, and not another trip to the ROK, or any other shit hole in the pacific. That place over there in the desert might be a nice change for a day or two. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 4:09:37 AM EDT
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Yes! This is an EXCELLENT post! Because all Koreans are obvioulsy trying to suck money out of the people that are there.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 4:10:42 AM EDT
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It seemed to me that the korean drivers had no respect for human life.
Not even kids and old people. I saw an old woman walking down the side of a road and a korean sized cargo truck rumbled by. Truck clipped her and sent her ass into the roadside ditch. The truck didn't slow down. Me and my fellow jarheads ran obver to check on the woman but I would have to say she was DRT. We called for help and the korean authorities showed up and tossed her into a van w/pick up truck bed on the back. Just like roadkill in the states. Also saw a kid about 6 or 7 get clipped by a car. The car never slowed down, but the kid got up and ran off. I guess he was made of rubber... |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 5:19:08 AM EDT
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South Koreans drive like 16 year old Americans with one month of driving experience. Uh, stop sign?
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Posted: 2/2/2006 5:26:50 AM EDT
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The Koreans see us as a wealthy country and don't mind grubbing money from us...but they have different attitudes - couple of examples.
Taking a bus to TDC from Seoul, on the highway (MSR) near Ouijongbo, there was a car accident. Dude in his Hyundai Pony was pulling onto the highway across the travel lane and got pasted by another Hyundai. There were little pieces of car all over the place, a real frigging mess. Cars backed up by the accident, they had to see it, were honking their horns. Then two Koreans pull the driver out, by his arms. His legs were pinned so it took a few minutes to get him out, the whole time his head is flopping around, and throw him into the back of a cab, which speeds off. Really weird to see. My squad leader, Sgt. Filer, lived in the ville with his lovely Korean wife (she was a real sweetheart of a lady), he had about 5 or 6 years in the ROK (we used to say he had more time on the . One morning he's riding his bike in, a little kid darts out of a doorway right into his front tire. Kid goes flying. Mother comes running out of the doorway, doesn't even look at the kid, and starts yelling at him in Korean that he has to pay her. Meanwhile the kid is laying in the dirt crying. Sgt Filer checks the kid out, he's just shaken up, and pays the lady about $5- in won. End of story. They have different perspectives on things. OTOH, I'm sorry your son was put into a situation like that. 82nd, I can still close my eyes and recall the smell of Korea-kimchi, night soil, and ondol (charcaol they heat with) in the ville. On the elliptical machine I can close my eyes and do the whole morning PT run, out the gate, through Toko-ri, up to ROK Airborne Pass, and back, like it was last week. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 5:28:01 AM EDT
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And yet we have people lined up here to demostrate how they are inferior.  They are smart enough to insure their economy flourishes, while Americans cant wait to line up and bash our products, export our jobs or buy that foreign shit, and the only ones who lose are our kids.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 5:32:26 AM EDT
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Ah, you were in Hovey, I take it. I was A/5/20 in Casey. We'd ruck out towards your end of town but I never spent any off time there. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 5:32:50 AM EDT
[#17]
Amen Brother +1 Seems to be this way every where. 
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Posted: 2/2/2006 8:38:15 AM EDT
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Posted by TimJ:
Hehe: I'll have to suggest he always carry $5 in won for just this type of excrement storm. Not surprised to hear of similar situations. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 8:40:31 AM EDT
[#19]
at least the Koreans in this country are hard working unlike the other minority group that always bitches about them
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Posted: 2/2/2006 8:43:53 AM EDT
[#20]
heh, it aint that bad is it? |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 8:45:14 AM EDT
[#21]
Good point.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 8:45:42 AM EDT
[#22]
Sounds like the same thing we would deal with in Germany
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Posted: 2/2/2006 9:52:54 AM EDT
[#23]
Stand in a pile of garbage next to a porta potty. That's the smell of Korea. No wait, Kosovo. No wait, Iraq. No wait, Macedonia. No wait, Juarez, Mexico.
I get confused. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:04:11 AM EDT
[#24]
Or parts of America. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:10:19 AM EDT
[#25]
HHC 1/72nd Armor, and yes it does stink. They call it the "land of the morning calm" because anything that tries to move before the wind picks up gets gassed.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:10:39 AM EDT
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Eventually, we'll pull out of S. Korea because our interests will be focused elsewhere. When that happens, the S. Koreans are going to p00p a brick when the N. Korean horde rolls south on Red China's dime.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:13:42 AM EDT
[#27]
Was it your unit that had a tank parked out front? |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:15:51 AM EDT
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Down at the bottom of the hill. "Dragon Valley" they called the battalion area. Motor pool was across the stream. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:19:05 AM EDT
[#29]
Yup, Hovey, A/2/503rd, Jan 1989 to Jan 1990.
Used to hit TDC, but not as much as Toko-ri, which had that small town atmosphere..... I once saw scrawled on the side of an M-577 "Not a Deterrent, an Irritant". Still makes me laugh. Overall Korea was one of the best years of my life. I had a great time. But I had great leaders, from squad through battalion level. 
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:20:49 AM EDT
[#30]
Cool...I was in A 1/72 Armor from December 86-December 87 |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:30:07 AM EDT
[#31]
First I would like to say that I'm sorry for your boy getting into an accident. Gald nobody was hurt.
The guy sueing mostly likely got the idea from us Americans. Since we sue for everything. I don't know where you guys go in Korea but I go about 6 times a year on business in Seoul and Tegu and Inchon. NEver stinks fact Seoul is a very clean city. 99% of the people I have met there are wonderful, treat Americans like kings. FYI, those American cars we drive now with better warrenties, you can thank alot of that to the Koreans. I'm in the auto industry and that Ford, GM, Jaguar, Chrysler you drive is mostly made from foreign parts now. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:33:35 AM EDT
[#32]
tag for later -
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:43:04 AM EDT
[#33]
+1 and the cabbies are no exception. They have no problems going over large speed bumps at 70 mph
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:43:06 AM EDT
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I watched some Korean jackass in a new Hyundai get accordioned between two tractor trailers full of MK-84 bombs on MSR-1 back in 1989.
Don't know the long term outcome but when the KNP showed up they chewed the guys ass and told us to go on our way. Times must be changing over there. The country is strange. Korean mothers send their kids outside to play all day, unsupervised, and then wonder why they get run over by Corp of Engineer dump trucks? I got into a POV accident (my fault) with a Korean driver and because I couldn't come to an immediate agreement on restitution, I got arrested by the American MP's (to keep me from being arrested by the KNP). Thank god for the SOFA agreement. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:52:17 AM EDT
[#35]
you should try driving in massachusetts some time lol |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 11:14:27 AM EDT
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I want to know, just WHERE do they get those identical pairs of wire-rimmed glasses?!?
(not curious about the identical haircut thing...just grab a bowl, eh?) |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 11:18:49 AM EDT
[#37]
Exactly how does the amount of damage determine who is at fault?????
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Posted: 2/2/2006 12:49:31 PM EDT
[#38]
What smell? ......
/married to a Korean for 30 years 
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Posted: 2/2/2006 3:25:41 PM EDT
[#39]
Have you ever been there, sir??????????? |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 3:47:55 PM EDT
[#40]
mmmm, lunch of beef bolgogi, fried rice, kimchee, cucumber kimchee, bean sprouts, and that raddish stuff. If she was good in the sack i'd marry one myself.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 7:22:57 PM EDT
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I was at Camp Casey 1991-1992. Headquarters 2nd Infantry Division. Spent many a night getting trashed down in TDC. One of my guys fell in love and borrowed money from every one he knew so he could buy his woman from one of the clubs. I think mama-san settled for about $3000. Anyway, he married this girl and rented a hooch downtown. Every time he went to the field she was back at the club selling her ass. Very sad actually.
 Industrious Koreans would come on post and clean out the dumpsters, then sell the trash back to G.I.s from their little second hand shops. I remember seeing porno mags on the shelves that still had coffee grounds stuck to them. Spent brass was melted down and shaped into ashtrays, plates, plaques, and anything else that could be made from brass. Used BDUs with fresh patches sewn on them were folded neatly in a stack in another shop. And, yes, I've ate french fries wrapped in paper with "Official US Army Orders" typed all over it. "Slicky Boys" would infiltrate our bivouac area at night and steal everything that wasn't tied down. The only thing they didn't take was firearms. When I was stationed at Camp Red Cloud in Oiujong Bui a Sergeant Major was murdered outside the front gate in broad daylight by a crazy Korean armed with a dumb-bell. The reason? He couldn't stand seeing an American walking with a Korean girl. Seems there was at least one case where a G.I. stabbed his girlfriend to death at a hooch in the ville. I'll never forget the smell of Kimchi, Soju, and fertilizer. 
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Posted: 2/2/2006 7:37:40 PM EDT
[#42]
is anybody else confused? I only speak english.  glad your son's gonna be okay.
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Posted: 2/2/2006 10:49:28 PM EDT
[#43]
The drivers were better than the drivers in the Philippines. I can remember being in a taxi on Roxas Blvd in Manila and that faster he went the further around the driver turned his head to talk.
I was only in one accident in the short time I was in Korea. We were in a marked military van and we had one of those our mirror knocked his mirror off clangers and the driver came storming up screaming until he saw we had a female driver, shrugged his shoulders and walked away. I really enjoyed the food most of the time, and the various pickled veggies were usually pretty good. My son gets back from Kunsan in less than two weeks and I told him we found a nice Korean BBQ buffet place we could go to. His answwer was basically along the line of he's going to pig out on Mexcian food until it runs out his ears and he intends to never look at kimchee let alone eat it ever again. |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 11:15:45 PM EDT
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just like here, most of the youngsters are hell raisers w/ no damn sense.... |
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Posted: 2/2/2006 11:23:51 PM EDT
[#45]
When I was there (63) 1st Cav there were no cars!
Bob
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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:29:25 AM EDT
[#46]
No offense, but, damn... you're crusty!
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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:35:36 AM EDT
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I can just smell the love of foreigners all over this topic. My korean sister(can you guess what I am) is serving right now, in US the army, over there. Ah, irony.
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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:40:13 AM EDT
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I got off the plane from SK and landed in Seattle. Went outside, took a deep breath of deisel and jet fuel and knew I was home. Man that place stinks. TXL |
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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:43:10 AM EDT
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A friend was over in there for 2 years and had outrageous stories........including those about crapping and pissing in the streets. |
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Posted: 2/3/2006 6:44:11 AM EDT
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Hey, that's pretty cool. I guess she gets to visit with old friends & relatives, eh? |
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