I forgot what I was searching for on Google when I came across the 'Kimchee Kronicles @ http://ed-thelen.org/gatto_00-04.html. I have know idea what it's like other than it's about Korea. 44 chapters of this story. So my question is how many would write a book and what would you include in this book?

Myself, I would change the names of course, but the rest would stay the same. I know there'sa couple of old photographers roaming between Osan and Anjong-ri who some of us at times thought they could of been working for Kim Il Son (hey I know his dead now). I'd have general pics of the Vil (Ville, down range, etc). Any pictures with people posing would purhaps fall under copywrite somehow. It would not be suitable for under 18 y/o and would be very offensive due to some of the pranks that were pulled. But it wouldn't be some randy nonsense either . It would depict military life in the ROK at that time. I've not read "Slicky Boy" or found @ my local bookstore (sarcastically I call it that). It suppose to be about some MP/MPI/CDI pair busting a local Korean theft ring. It was advertised in the Army Times a few years back and I spaced it off get the ISBN. If my memory hasn't quickstepped toward dementia yet, I believe it was written by an ex-MP. Also if you were to write a book on your experiences, would it be a paperback or web based?

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I have considered doing a documentary about US Military life in Korea, but not a book. I am not sure there is enough interest in a book. My life is not interesting enough!

Mike

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I have been here since 1988. I have read several novels about military experiences in Korea. What really happened in these books is true as I have seen it. But, if a younger person read these books they could not relate to it as things have changed or no longer exist. Example: Yobos. They are still in existance with GI's, but not on the scale they used to be. Also barracks cleaning ladies for $30 a month. Things in Korea change so fast that by the time I finished the book it might be outdated.

Documentary would be really cool and $$$$. No one's life that boring in the ROK because what you see happening around you and your take is the ticket. If I was to begin writing about myself, it would be a short story to cure those with most sleeping disorders! However by adding in the supporting characters (names changed of course) and describing the would make the the story became a book. Face it, we all know some pretty funny jokers and some rather pathetic individuals. I kill could a chapter on the dude that was in my unit that got charted off to Suwon for black market violations; or how I left Sgt. Willie Parker looking like a fool and speechless when EUSA come own to inspect the prop-n-rotor shop. Any I'm thinking that a couple of pads of paper would be need just to jout down stuff and a few sheet to put the story in order.


What books on Korea have you read or would recommend? 1988, you've seen a lot.

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$30 I remember paying $10. The first house I rented had 6 rooms and cost a whopping $26 a month <BG> The house was actually provided to a ROK 1sg and he leased it out and lived in a small two room with a wife and 2 kids.

As far as books on Korea it really depends on the topic. If you are looking for contemporary history I would put Oberdorf's The Two Koreas at the top. It really fills in the period up to 1990's? Since I was there when most of the significant events occured I could relate and it filled in the curious minds want to know. I was amused at the stories the MI used to tell.

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I am not sure a book not enough time in country but Koreans have been a big part of my life for 29 years. I do remember a story of off duty, intoxicated MPs reversing the pump on the "Honey Wagon into the Waugan "CP Carrol" Train station. We could probably do a section called War Stories, as that is what my kids call any of my stories I tell from my time in the service.

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I was referring to military experiences in Korea. I'll have to check out the 2 Koreas.

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