Korean Job Discussion Forums

[Qinella]

[CentralCali]

[genezorm]

[RJjr]

True. While many of the GIs may not be choirboys, we in the ESL community are a more obnoxious and visible crowd.

[lastat06513]

I was a soldier for 5 and half years, with 2 and half of those years spent assigned in Korea.

One thing every CDR notices is that when there is a training exercise, the crime rate offbase goes down. But once they get back onbase and are at stand-down, the crime rate remarkably goes up....this is especially true for Brigade and Division-level exercises where thousands of service members are participating in the exercise (though I hear that many of the exercises are now conducted onbase, the soldiers are on lockdown for the remainder of the exercise) and I can tell you from a lower-enlisted point of view that once the FTX recovery is complete and they are on stand-down, all hell breaks loose.

Why do you think the CDR-2ID instituted a midnight to 6 curfew offbase thats been in effect since 1995? To curtail the possibility of crimes being committed offbase (and the other reason is the high op-tempo of the division, but the reasons I was given by MPs is the crime rate)


While ETs/FTs might be rowdy and arrogant in their own way, they are far better than the teenage or 20-something soldier after a month-long exercise...

True, there are instances where teachers date local women, but at least they know better than to just get up and leave if the woman is pregnant like soldiers do (which was an issue a long time ago)....

Yes, some teachers use drugs, but alot of them don't get as out of hand as a soldier might after a hard night of binge drinking....

And yes, many of teachers might come to Korea with fake credentials. But I know alot of those people tend to get screwed more by employers and take fewer risks getting their money, so they tend to leave Korea after a certain amount of time, if they arent' married.

True, ETs/FTs are not angels in anyway, but are far better crowd than the average gaggle of soldiers

[gdimension]

[IncognitoHFX]

Most of the GIs I've seen walking around in Korea have looked like they were nothing but trouble.

Big, redneck retards with overactive libidos lacking a High School education.

[CentralCali]

[Mosley]

If I recall correctly Incognito was the guy who proclaimed his English teaching prowess in the first week he was here.

Here's a guy who's 23(right?), just got a philosophy(!) degree from a rinky-dink univ. in Nova Scotia(a province w/a fine military tradition, I might add...though Incognito apparently insulated himself from such savagery by gazing starry-eyed at some tenured hack droning on about Marx or Sartre), and now he's here in the Land of the Morning Garbage Truck passing judgement on those who are largely responsible for his having his hakwan opportunity. Since ya don't get it, I'll spell it out fer ya:

Those big, horny, retarded, redneck(and above all, uneducated) GIs do more for Western civilization in one day of training than do all the Engrishee teachers on this peculiar peninsula in a year.

Give me an "uneducated" GI over a MISeducated Canadian liberal arts grad anyday.

[Fresh Prince]

I think a lot of people need to watch the CNN special on North Korea, and the one on China before forming an opinion on whether the GI's in Korea are a bad thing.

[lastat06513]

I base my opinion on my own experience on what I saw as a soldier in Korea...
I know the USFK-CFC-UNC was set up are a deterrent to the North-Chinese military pact.

What is debatable is the fact that they usually get away with the things they do under the guise of SOFA.

[CentralCali]

[IncognitoHFX]

[peppermint]

[nautilus]