Goodbye Yongsan [View all]
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A Channel has a report up this morning about the transfer of the 8th Army HQ, the UN Command and US Armed Forces Korea to Pyongtaek, Camp Humphreys, from Yongsan, Seoul. The agreement to move was signed in 2003, the transfer was begun in 2017. The cost was approximately, 16 trillion won with 8.9 trillion paid by South Korea. So USFK officially moved to Camp Humphreys yesterday.
The US Army occupied Yongsan in the heart of Seoul in 1945. The Japanese Army first occupied the area 400 years earlier during the Im Jin invasion period. The combined years of continuous Japanese or American military presence in Seoul in the modern era total at least 114 years.
Camp Humphreys, the new American military base is a complete community. It is five times bigger than Yoido, the island in Seoul where the National Legislature convenes. Camp Humphreys is reported to be the largest US military base in the world outside US territory.
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