I was looking through videos of the war in Iraq on youtube and saw the title, "Korean Army in Iraq." I watched it because I had no idea South Korea was in Iraq. It turned out that South Korea deployed 3000+ soldiers there to bring peace and rebuild iraq while U.S. soldiers were fighting..same with Britain. While watching the video, I saw that South Korea taught Iraqi civilians and did: Material & equipment support Joint Checkpoint constructions Rifle range constructions Build barracks Forest Ranger station construction Military team training (taught civilians to defend themselves) Vocational training centers Computer classes Taught appliance maintinence Vehicle construction heavy equipment operation paved roads public health clinics town halls schools sewers deep wells public parks Hospitals dentists surgeries Planted grasses, plants, etc Soccer Created childrens day (like a field day with band playing, games, etc) and many more. Yeah I know we (U.S.) did all the struggling work and all that, same with Britain but I never heard of South Korea in Iraq. All the time we hear U.S. soldiers in Iraq but why not Korea? I think if the U.S. did some fighting back then and did what South Korea did, the war would have ended by now. I thought the whole point of the war was to bring peace and restore Iraq. It seems though as if South Korea did that to some parts of Iraq. I would like to see us do something like that.
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South Korea is currently in Afghanistan and the Somali Coast. They were also involved in the Gulf War. What amazes me is how little people are aware of South Korea's involvement with Vietnam too. South Korea had the second largest foreign presence during the war second only to the United States. South Korea's military is very well trained believe it or not.
