So, according to the Hankyoreh, Gyeonggi-do Provincial Council proposed that all USFK personnel based in the province undergo training to boost their gender awareness. And it appears USFK will soon accept this and begin expanding sex crime prevention training, which so far had focused on new recruits, to all officers and men. This gender awareness training is a program that teaches soldiers the difference between men and women and prevents prostitution, sexual assault and other sex-related crimes.
Oh, and a Provincial Council committee also passed a resolution that would call on the government to improve the “unequal” SOFA. This resolution will go to a plenary session on March 16.
According to the provincial military liaison office, the province is currently talking with 2ID about the gender awareness program.
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Because it’s that fucking difficult.
Jesus H. Christ.
Looks like time to pull the GIs out of Gyeonggi-do. If Pyeongtaek isn’t ready, then Stateside it is.
I am amused that any Korean presumes to give the US military any guff about “gender awareness”.
#3 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ I was also amused.
(Koreans are going to teach Americans soldiers the difference between men and women to prevents prostitution, sexual assault and other sex-related crimes). Who will teach the Koreans?
“대한민국의 수사권, 사법권, 재판권이 침해받는 한-미주둔군 지위 협정의 개정 없이는 주한미군 범죄의 근절과 주민의 안전을 보장할 수 없다”
Indeed. Unless SOFA is revised [again], Korea is doomed.
I truly share the skeptical amusement…
It’s as if written on TheOnion.com!
After witnessing how spas and other personal service businesses run sex work with very little fear of being caught and how THEY treat Korean women, my opinion of Korean men, in particular has plummeted.
As Ricky Gervais once said, “What sort of a society has to remind someone not to rape?”
@Elgin
Glad to know that your opinion of Korean men is formulated by your observation of the sex industry. Quite an astute way of evaluation.
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