PYEONGTAEK, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Braving subzero temperatures, 10 South Korean Army cadets slogged through this week’s U.S.-led field training designed to gear them up for an annual international military academy contest slated for April. The three-day training at Camp Humphreys, a sprawling U.S. base in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul, centered on [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) is being criticized for failing to reveal information about the number of COVID-19 infections among U.S. troops. The USFK website showed that the number of COVID-19 infections among U.S. troops grew to 682 people between Dec. 28 and Jan. 3, setting a new record after [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Saturday it has decided to toughen social distancing rules for its service members amid the growing number of infections among its troops. The USFK had confirmed a weekly record high of 682 additional COVID-19 cases among its personnel from Dec. 28 to Tuesday. It [...]
INCHEON, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The final stages of the return of Camp Market in the western port city of Incheon, which served as a former United States Forces Korea (USFK) base after the liberation of the Korean peninsula in 1945, have been completed with the relocation of the bakery plant on the site. The bakery plant [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — At least 33 American service members stationed at Osan Air Base tested positive for the coronavirus, officials said Friday, after the base came under fire for a no-mask dance party in disregard of social distancing rules. The infections were reported on Thursday and Friday at the base, some 70 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — A dance party was held at one of the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK)’s bases in South Korea last week where participants allegedly drank alcohol and danced without wearing masks while ignoring social distancing rules amid the pandemic, sources said Monday. The party took place at a club inside Osan [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States is considering using American military bases in South Korea as one of the housing sites for evacuees from Afghanistan, along with other overseas bases, including those in Japan, the Wall Street Journal has reported. The Pentagon is “looking at American bases in Japan, Korea, Germany, Kosovo, [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has extended the current antivirus rules banning visits to bars and clubs until next month, the U.S. military said Friday, as South Korea struggles to contain the virus fast spreading across the country. The country’s daily caseload has remained above the 1,000 threshold since [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Dozens of American service members stationed in South Korea donated blood Wednesday to help ensure stable and diverse supplies amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said. The U.S. military hosted a blood drive at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, some 70 kilometers south of Seoul, in partnership [...]
BUSAN, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. soldiers stationed in South Korea will be fined if they hold parties without wearing masks on and around a popular beach here during the coming U.S. Independence Day holiday amid the coronavirus pandemic, a local ward office said Wednesday. The Haeundae Ward office in the southern port city [...]