Outside Gate 1 in 1961
Contributor: Darrell Brown
Samgakji area of Seoul in 1961, just outside of gate number 1 later on gate 16, was made up of poorer Korean style homes. There…
YONGSAN GARRISON TO BECOME HISTORIC PARK, EVENTUALLY
Contributor: Nate Rafferty for 10 magazine
So for the time being Yongsan Garrison remains a mystery. ….For now, the public can only to continue to wonder: Yongsan Legacy hopes that the park it will be a “mirror,” in which Koreans will see whatever meaning they need to see. It’s an ambiguous explanation for an ambiguous space, that continues to occupy an ambiguous place in the minds of Koreans and expats alike.
8th US Army memorial’s Incredible past
Contributor: Kim Chunsoo, Yongsan Legacy Team
The 8th US Army Memorial located at the main post of Yongsan Base was actually a monument to the loyal dead to commemorate the Japanese…
US army base called ‘unreachable land’
Contributor: Jon Dunbar
By Jon Dunbar “To me, Yongsan Garrison is like North Korea.” An odd sentiment, but understandable when you think about it; both are like an…
The US military’s Yongsan Garrison leaves a mixed legacy in Seoul
Contributor: Jason Strother
December 26, 2017 By Jason Strother Concrete walls topped with concertina wire is what most South Koreans only ever see of the Yongsan Garrison,…
Price of the land left behind by United Nations Command
Contributor: Yongsan Legacy Team
The flat tract which is left behind by the United Nations Command in Itaewon, Yongsan-gu, Seoul was sold to an individual housing developer at an…
Beyond confidential: mapping Yongsan Garrison through personal narratives
Contributor: Kyung Lee
If dedicating USAG Yongsan’s 70-year existence without taking into account the childhood memories, search for loved ones, or a cultural tour of Seoul, our future generations will grasp little or nothing if the military base was simply replaced by a grassy field with only bronze plaques reading passages from textbooks verbatim.
Yongsan Garrison 龍山基地 February 23, 1904 ~ November 2, 2018
Contributor: Nam Sang-so for Yongsan legacy
U.S. Army Yongsan Garrison are nearly completing their relocation to a new home in Pyeongtaek, leaving behind fine memories of the 73 years of Yongsan legacy. K-6 or Camp Humphreys, is a fine region for your cantonment, with an abundant underground water source.
“If I recognize this map?”
Contributor: Nam SangSo and Yongsan Legacy Team
The blue print showing the west area of the Main Post Yongsan Garrison was one of the hundreds of topographic maps plotted by the engineers and surveyors of Trans-Asia Engineering Associates, Inc. (TAE). It had been performed some time in late 1959 and early 1960.
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U.S. Forces Korea are here to prevent another nuclear war
Contributor: Nam SangSo
Dear Marty Brown of Atascadero, California; The same sizzling summer came around 73rd time, and our memories retrospect of Hiroshima-Nagasaki atomic bombings again as you…
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…
Yongsan land after US Forces are relocated
Contributor: Nam SangSo
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 …
Mapping Yongsan Garrison’s history
Contributor: Kyung Lee
Mapping Yongsan Garrison’s history through personal narratives by By Kyung Lee As 2017 draws to an end, most U.S. military and non-military personnel stationed in Yongsan…