"it's the ones down in Itaewon hitting taxi windows as they drive by"

And anybody who has been in Korea for a year or more knows how many bleeping taxi stories are out there each year causes so much trouble. Taxi drivers do not have a good reputation among Koreans, but every story of some drunk GI getting into it with a taxi driver or hitting a taxi or dancing on it ----- just adds more and more firm foundation for the dislike of GIs as a whole.

I know myself, and if I were walking down the street, knowing what I know about Korean society and the anti-US culture, and I saw a GI hitting a taxi window or something like that, we'd have a problem with each other. I'd give him a piece of my mind, and then......hopefully it would end there....but...

I don't see this project taking off....

...but I do believe in the end it would be useful - not really for the situation inside Korea, but it would give a better idea for those who don't have much experience in Korea.

You guys in the service ----- what do you think the impact would be if some of the town patrols took a long a camcorder or something and filmed some of these rude and ultimately danger-ridden behavior (because any one particular incident in Korea can be blown up big time) and used the videos as part of the training for new guys coming in?

How many would be shamed into perhaps giving at least a thought before acting like that?

I really have no idea ----- I can see some of the guys I've known who were really asses who might have been shamed into acting (a little) better if they could see themselves --- and I can think of some who it would not have done anything for....

Just a thought....

But, I think that could be part of the effect if such a project as I have in mind was actually done.

1. It would show that the GIs aren't raping and pillaging all the time.

2. If it did show such abnormal acts too far outside the bounds of what - say - Koreans do, it might at least encourage more GIs and others to not just walk by shaking their heads when they see crap going on or shame some news guys (or old ones) into taking more pride in themselves and the uniform they wear.

3. Show that Koreans are out doing much the same that GIs are plastered for in the media (like in the recent Yonhap piece on urinating on a building).

Just on the prostitution thing alone ------- it should have an immediate impact on exposing the GLARING double-standard, because the Korean prostitution industry for just Koreans pulls in more money than fishery & agriculture!!!

If someone outside of Korea were googling on GIs and prostution in Korea and ran across a couple of clips of Korean-only red light districts --- we'd at least get rid of some of the sanctimonius bullshit from people who've never been to Korea.....