USFK Good News Stories

r every taxi cab related incident or in this case bus related incident, there are at least two good news stories you won’t hear much about. The Stars and Stripes on the other hand has two good news stories worth reading.The first story is about soldiers from Camp Casey helping to teach English at local schools:

After being stationed here for seven months, Colvin says he knows that some South Koreans see U.S. soldiers and think “trouble.”

The public relations value of participating in a volunteer fair wasn’t lost on him and other soldiers.

“A lot of kids get better impressions of soldiers this way,” Colvin said. “It’s also a better way to learn more English through conversation than just through a book. And it looks like the kids enjoy it.”

The kid in this next story is a real hero:

The man got two boys to safety but one of his sons had disappeared under about seven to eight feet of water.

Over the next seven or so minutes, Adam, an eighth-grader at the International Christian School in Pyeongtaek, made 10 to 15 dives.

“I swam straight to the bottom and was feeling around and I resurfaced, and I just breathed in a huge gulp of air and went back down,” he said. “It was really, really murky.”

He found the boy and brought him up.

The father and another fisherman began trying to resuscitate the boy, but neither seemed familiar with how to do it.

“I tell you, I never felt so helpless in my whole life because here I had two cell phones and I didn’t know how to call for help and I didn’t know how to tell them they were doing CPR wrong,” Heather Budge said.

Make sure you read the whole article because it is a good read about this young boy doing a heroic deed in saving the child’s life. So what are the odds that any Korean will remember a heroic story like this a year from now, but they can still recall the Great Shinchon Massacre of 2004? I know one family that won’t forget is the family of the boy that this one courageous Osan teen saved.