GI Korea has been much better than me at documenting examples of how Korean society (especially the courts and police and press) handle crimes involving GIs when the GIs are most likely the victim or clearly the victim.

If he reads this post, maybe he will add a comment with links to the posts from his site that touch on this issue and the specific cases he has covered.

The one case that has grabbed some expat attention in the K-blogsphere is the suspended sentence given to a ROK soldier for a sexual assault on a female GI. (for an update on the case go here)

This case, and the fact that I have scaled back my college courses and student-teaching due to a family illness and due to the fact I need a distraction from that and the amount of time I have on my hands ---

--I decided to edit the post on my site about the 2002 and 1995 Subway Incidents.


These two events were mammoth in Korean society - but you probably don't hear that much about them among Koreans these days. I'm not sure, because I no longer have much contact with Korean adults in Korea.

The 2002 incident is certainly something they would not want to promote, and they might have forgotten about the 1995 case - though it was like an atom bomb going off at the time.

In both these cases, you get a clear idea of what the standards are when it comes to crimes by GIs vs crimes against GIs.

But, it isn't just a GI thing either.

I did cover extensively The Irish Incident.

The reason I went back to edit the Subway Incident page is two-fold:

I wasn't happy with how it looked or read.

But, I also believe that post should get more attention on my site than it tends to bring in.

I might have to go back and check the key words and such....

but.....looking over the site stats over a long period of time ---

the index page on GI Crimes and the pages connected to it on individual GI crimes is one of the more popularly viewed sections of the site ---

----whereas these two examples of how GIs can land in jail even when they are the victims doesn't gain many hits.

I am trying to change that by promoting it again.

The suspended sentence for the sexual assault on the female GI also prompting me to think about this issue again....

This is probably one of the better examples of how GIs get screwed by the Korean court system that should be required reading for all servicemembers in Korea:

http://rokdrop.com/2006/09/01/the-so...ent-at-work-2/

The posting also has links to some of the other incidents where GIs have been getting screwed over by the Korean court system.