Comments on: These ex-ROK Marines must be tough

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:00:00 +0000

An acquaintance of mine who spent a lot of years in the US Marines said that the toughest, hardest bar fight he ever saw was a threeway between himself and his buddies, some ROK Marines, and the crew of a Norwegian merchant vessel. It all ended in concussions and more drinking, and everyone involved agreed that the others were tough SOBs.

By: Ric

Ric — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:37:12 +0000

Oh fer… After all that I left out the word “be.” I hereby retract the above post and am going to find my sword upon which I will fall.

By: Ric

Ric — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 16:36:03 +0000

Left the Corp? What corporation was that?
OK, OK, I know you mean left the Corps but I had to persnickety and pedantic. It’s who I am.

By: peter schroepfer

peter schroepfer — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:39:07 +0000

I’m not just saying this because I think Hong’s an opprotunist with no principles, and not because he’s a real big fan of Park Chung-hee & his wife Madamme Yuk.

I imagine he’s just saying what he’s saying because there are calls in some quarters that Hong or any sons he has be sent.

He does have a clean image, though. He wasn’t originally GNP, but was offered great things and “brought in” (the old ???????move) expressly to be head of its campaign committee. Imagine that, you’re independent one day and the next morning you’re running the GNP’s 2000 Nat’l Assembly campaign central. It needed someone with a respectable image for that position so had to go shopping outside the party.