Mapping Yongsan Garrison and Surroundings
Contributor: Rich Kent
I took this photo from Namsan Tower when i served in Yongsan grrison in 1969. The photo is looking towards Main Post and South Post…
I took this photo from Namsan Tower when i served in Yongsan grrison in 1969. The photo is looking towards Main Post and South Post…
One of my funniest memories from Yongsan garrison is from 1984. The MPs patrolled the parking lot between our building and the Arcade/Library. If a…
Blondie There was a large white washed wall among buildings lined up facing a river and bridge before entering into Uljin township, North Gyeongsang province.…
The landscape architects for the new Yongsan Park, I hope, will notice that the Building 1510 on main post exists with the great legacies of the pioneer American and Korean architects and engineers during the reconstruction era after the Korean War.
This is about 64 years back in 1954 when it was time still skirmish of fightings were sporadically occurring along the front line. Although the…
I really appreciate the work you Yongsan Legacy are doing in capturing the historical and human stories surrounding Yongsan Army Garrison (Yongsan.). To me Yongsan…
We Korean architects had heard of the disco but never had the design experience. And noticing the AFKN disk jockeys talked like avant-garde artists at a commissary diner, I decided to visit the station just across the street.
United Nations Command and United States Forces Korea have been a big influence in setting the fashion trend in South Korea back in the 50’s…
Diamond Water, the first commercial drinking water to be approved in South Korea, and passing the water quality test by the hygiene authority of the USKF, in Yongsan in 1977
US ARMY hosts a fashion show by Korean designers Choi Kyungja and Andre Kim in Seoul, 1959 Andre Kim(August 24, 1935 – August 12, 2010)…
When Korean government announced that the United States and Korea agreed in 2003 to relocate the U.S. Army Yongsan Garrison to Camp Humphreys by the end of the year 2017, and the Yongsan land will be developed to a large park, larger than London’s Hyde Park, many Seoul citizens not only overjoyed with the good news …
I sat down in my chair. My Mother now came into the room. I must have appeared sick, because my Mother asked, “What is wrong”? I told her that I had been Drafted! She began to cry.
“When I was a kid in elementary school in Korea the school provided cornbread as a daily snack to the students just before class was…
George and Ernie roam all over Korea but they always start their investigations on Yongsan Compound and they always return there.
In my heart, so do I.
As the U.S. military relocates out of Yongsan Garrison, Yongsan Legacy aims to archive the living memories of those who served, worked and lived there.…