Often in the past, the press has used both these events to drum beat a rise in demonstrated anti-US feeling.

What is the Korean language media doing with it?

Any editorials about problemed GIs?

Are they running a handful of stories each week about each incident?

That is what the English language versions have done frequently in the past —- find new angles to cover the same story so they get to keep it in the public eye for a couple of weeks. Then if they can find another remotely similiar incident, they add and try to get a snowball effect going.

Of course, the GIs help out by doing some bad things and others giving in to being provoked.

Usually, I could tell what was in the Korean press by what my students came to class wanting to talk about, and usually I had an idea already because the English versions were echoing it.

What about right now?

The English press is fairly quiet on the events. what about the Korean versions? My wife is too busy to do the quick scanning for me and my Korean sucks too much to do it myself…

Interesting that incident never made the news.

That said, these USFK kids should be punished for recklessly putting other people in danger and for just being stupid.

As the #3 post above implies, it could be that when similar incidents happen involving only Koreans it goes completely unremarked, and it’s just that the Korean media has chosen to play up this particular incident because it involved the children of USFK.

Commanders do not have UCMJ authority over dependents, thus a Singapore-style caning is impossible (however, I have no objection if ROK authorities want to administer one). Commanders do have considerable administrative authority; for example, it’s conceivable that this kid’s parents could be ordered to send him back to the US. This would be an administrative decision by the commanding general, not subject to appeal.

I doubt this will happen unless this particular particular dependent “has a record”.

I don’t remember any discussion here about the prevailing sentiments among the members of the Korean media (newspapers, TV) as regards USFK. Might be a good discussion for a post, Marmot.

If the vast majority are younger and share a general antipathy towards USFK, then selective decisions (and that of their editors) to play up every incident like this means that the reports will have a cumulative PR effect far beyond the actual seriousness of the individual incidents.

What will be will be, of course. I don’t agree with mass punishment or the imposition of drastic restrictions for USFK based on such individual incidents, especially if it’s based on a double standard that Koreans don’t enforce on themselves.

But, if these things are simply intolerable, then there is no law that says Koreans have to endure the unendurable; send the Americans home.

Too late. I can only imagine how much hatred most USFK personnel have for the Koreans right now. Not that there was somekind of a love relationship before, but now we’re seeing the full manifests of decades of irreconcilable differences. I don’t think this is stoppable, and the petty clashes will only continue until another big one errupts that will irrecoverably damage the relationghip between the two countries.

There was a while without any major inccidents. Now someone ran over an old lady with an LMTV, it was an accident and traggic as it may be these things happen. Then we had 3 soldiers beat a 35 year old Korean in the face with beer bottles, I think r…