SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea decided Monday to expand the boundary of an envisioned national park in Yongsan, central Seoul, as the U.S. forces stationed here have kicked off the return process for a major military base. South Korea is pushing to establish a sprawling park in Yongsan as the United States [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) said Tuesday it lifted a curfew for all of its troops, effective immediately. The curfew, set for between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., was imposed in 2011 amid public outcry over allegations of sexual violence and other crimes by USFK troops. Before making the termination [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is expected to push ahead with the decontamination of the four United States military bases that were returned to it Wednesday before settling the clean-up costs on concerns the camps may pose a threat to the public’s health. Following a yearslong delay caused by gaps with Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States on Wednesday returned four of its military bases in South Korea in a decision to end a yearslong delay caused by differences on decontamination procedures and to allay worries over the adverse impact of the delay on regional development schemes. South Korea and the U.S. also [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) Commander Gen. Robert Abrams paid a visit to Paik Sun-yup, a famous Korean War hero and South Korea’s first four-star general, to celebrate his 100th birthday, the U.S. military said Tuesday. Paik, who served as corps commander and Army Chief of Staff during the 1950-53 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea will end all services at a major military base in the heart of Seoul within this year to prepare the return of the land to the South Korean government, military officials said Saturday. The U.S. military has been moving its bases from around the country [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — United States Forces Korea (USFK)’s Kunsan Air Base in North Jeolla Province held a memorial service for a military dog that recently passed away after serving eight years in the military conducting patrol duties. The Air Base posted on Facebook that Ooyvey, a military working dog, passed away on [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The former site of a United States Forces Korea (USFK) facility in Busan, the southern port city, is still contaminated with dioxin, a Group 1 carcinogen, a civic activist group said Wednesday. Green Korea United said dioxin has been detected at the former site of the USFK’s Defense Reutilization [...]
SEOUL, May 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) has suggested to South Korea that the Combined Forces Command between the two countries relocate to Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, despite an earlier plan to keep it in Seoul, a government source said Thursday. The CFC, currently headquartered at Seoul’s Yongsan [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Benzene, at levels 1,170 times the government-set safety limit, has been detected among other toxic chemicals in groundwater near Yongsan Garrison in Seoul, the former site of the headquarters of the U.S. Forces (USFK) in Korea, Seoul metropolitan government said Friday. The government said the levels of toxins above [...]