Dongducheon Mayor Complains that US Troops Do Not Spend Enough Money Off Post

I wonder if the juicy bar owners are the ones pushing the mayor to make these complaints because they are the ones currently losing big money due to USFK’s decision to ban servicemembers from giving money to juicy girls:

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The mayor of a city near the North Korean border is seeking $2.7 billion from the South Korean government, claiming the delayed relocation of American troops from Dongducheon is hurting the local economy and redevelopment plans.

City officials say Mayor Oh Se-chang told Defense Minister Han Min-koo that if Dongducheon — home to camps Casey and Hovey — doesn’t see some show of support from the government by the end of the year, the city will consider holding a large demonstration and a nonbinding referendum on whether U.S. troops should remain there.

Approximately 5,900 soldiers are assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division in Area I, which extends from just north and east of Seoul up to the Demilitarized Zone.

“If U.S. troops want to stay in Dongducheon, they should be of help to the local economy or all of them should go away,” a city official said, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. He said troops should be spending more money at off-post Korean-owned businesses instead of shopping solely at post exchanges or other on-base facilities.  [Stars & Stripes]

You can read more at the link, but basically the mayor just wants to get paid off by the national government to keep quiet.  Also of interest in the article is that a spokesman said that Camp Casey is now scheduled to be handed back over to the local government in the 2020 timeframe.  I will believe that when I see it.

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William
William
9 years ago

We can help the economy by allowing everyone to live off post and close down the DFAC.

The Chicken and Beer joints will see a nice increase over their already frantic business.

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
9 years ago

I think I probably put some some restaurant owners’ children through college in my time there.

Chicken and beer and samgyupsal joints.

GI Joe
GI Joe
9 years ago

With the new rotational brigade supposed to be replacing 1ABCT they will see a lot less families coming over and that means less rent and utilities paid, less used cards being sold, less money to maintain those jalopies, etc. USFK has never stopped soldiers from paying for sex and it won’t in the future. Where there is a will, there is a way. Count on 90% of the transaction going straight to the bar or massage parlor owner. That’s helping the economy for sure.

MTB Rider
9 years ago

How much more does the town want soldiers to spend, and on what? I lived up in that area, and spent a lot of money in various bicycle shops. I rode with a bunch of soldiers and we bought a lot of bikes and parts.
If Dongducheon wants soldiers to come out and spend money, sell goods and services that cater to soldiers and their needs in a friendly manner. The money sucking bar scene gets old after a few weeks, what else you got?
Knock off jerserys, check. “Mink” blankets, check. Cell phones and cards, check. Pawn shops with TA-50 gear for the inevitable missing items during turn in, check. Pirated DVDs and video games, check. Three really good bike shops, check. A so-so club and restaurant district near Jihang Station, check.

How about clothes in American sizes? I’m not fat, but at 5’10 (180cm) and 185 lbs (84kg) I’m above the Korean average. The PX selection at Casey is pretty lame, but I could barely find anything at Home Plus or Lotte Mart.
How about the latest gadgets and electronics, set to English? With a staff that can explain stuff?
How about a theater near the base? Maybe there was one, but I lived down in Deokgye-dong and went to the Megabox in Jangju-si. Is there a theater near Bosan Station?

The Mayor was a good guy when it came to the annual Dongducheon MTB race by allowing soldiers to race with timing chips for free. Most races cost about 30,000 won and unless you have Korean friends or a Korean spouse you won’t know about them. But there is only one race a year, and so far no road races.

One day of “Good, clean fun” and 364 days of “Hey soldier, want me show you good time? You buy me drinkie?” The Old Generation of pervs like CH and LL who never wore seatbelts or condoms have been replaced by kids who buckle up and wrap that rascal. Time for TDC to do the same…

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

In an intetesting and thoughtful comment on bike racing and supplyside economics, how the hell did I get thrown in at the end as being an old, condomless perv?

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Just lucky, I guess… You ran the Chickenhead, and I read your website. What conclusion did you want me to reach?

Smokes
9 years ago

Ha ha… see what you get for not keeping a low profile like me?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Come on, MTB, just because I did not mention condoms on my website doesn’t mean I didn’t wear them.

And what about Leon? His sex life is like a retired librarian in a nursing home.

Careful, Smokes, just because I didn’t mention your fat crippled dwarf Eskimo tranny website doesn’t mean I don’t know about it and am not waiting for the ideal time to expose it.

MTB Rider
9 years ago

True, true on Leon. He did pretty much admit that he only likes boy soldiers. Lean, muscular young men, sweaty from exertion, weapons at the ready. Ready to thrust and drive deep into the enemy, slamming and pounding away, until the mission is accomplished.
Girl soldiers simply don’t pack the necessary gear to satisfy a crusty old sergeant such as Leon.

So… I see you’ve been Panty Banditing it again, CH? Sigh. You just never learn, do you? How much is bail money this time?

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

The panty proffered by the willing hand
bring no satisfaction near as sweet to that which arrived by the craft of stealth.

– William Shakespeare

Leon LaPorte
9 years ago

Pinto beans and rice are tasty.

MTB Rider
9 years ago

If you’re happy, call the pineapple.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Wear not thy panty nor the panty of thy wife or sister but take that which belong to the stranger of a fine home and is guarded like treasure, for upon donning such a delicate garment one knowest a pleasure only matched by the glory of His word.

– Cromulens 3:14

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

The man climbed over the fence from the woman’s yard. He carried something in his hand. He clutched it tightly as of it was valuable to him. When safely out of sight he spread it wide in both hands and stared at it for a moment. He smiled before pushing it into his pocket. As he walked away, he spoke to himself.

“A new panty is magnificent.”

If any other man had been there to hear, they would have understood.

– Earnest Hemingway

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

“Men love their panties, not because they are great, but because they are their own.” ~Seneca

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

“Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the panties of the last priest.” ~Denis Diderot

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

The familiar metallic taste of oxidized chromium residue burned darkly in the back of his parched throat as he slotted his deck on a covergence vector between the throbbing surface nodes and the frosty haze of an infinite sullen sky.

And there it was before him, a sudden appearance of seamless brushed steel and ancient yellowed alabaster which has been dutifully assembled by the shaky wrinkled hands of an ancient blind Asian craftsman in a hastily molded containment pod reeking of sweet keytones and longchain monomers on a damp neon-lit alley of Old Chuba City before the Scorcher had turned it into a muddy seawater filled crater containing only the detritus of past civilization and the dusktime twinkling of frantic jellyfish slowly pulsing to the bittersweet memories of the lost melancholy rhythm of bygone human habitation.

And he was surprised to arrive upon it so suddenly in spite of his longing expectations. In a burst of meta-awareness, he found himself surprised at his own unexpected surprise.

“Open motherkker,” he thought, but it already knew, anticipating the subtle essence of his coming commands as bubbling electrolytes flooded his enhanced synapses which flashed with far infrared sparks in the dark recesses of his warm damp brain.

And there within the gossamer tendrals of the iridescent flux, lay the delicate panty shimmering rapidly with characteristic broadband emissions he instinctively recognized as a terminal byproduct of his knowingly careless interfacing with the unshielded index wire he had so casually purchased from the ratty little Indian dwarf in a white suit with the gleaming gold tooth and the wondering cynernetic blue eye which looked up at him hatefully from the fractal cell in which he was bonded.

He greedily clutched the panty with his outstretched replacent arm, servos screaming in angry resistance at his unfounded haste, emitting a sweet cloud of compressed machine oil mist as it crossed the flux barrier and burrowed through exponentially changing energy levels.

He frantically secured the hissing panty in the prestressed obsidian containment tube where it sat deep in the leather shoulder holster containing the worn Osaka-Martinez pistol coded to his DNA, and tightly screwed down the iridium cap, pressing his thumb harshly on the glowing sensor plate to secure the timed magnetic locks that would protect his cargo regardless of the likely outcome.

And then he was gone without a trace like the misty ghost in an ancient machine.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Ah, yes, that was William Gibson’s take on panty theft.

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

“I have harnessed the panties that stride from world to world to sow death and madness.”
~ H.P. Lovecraft, From Beyond

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a panty.

– Joyce Kilmer

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

“Individually, we are one pant Together, we are panties.” ~Ryunosuke Satoro

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

“Why would we want to have our valuable panties underneath the artillery of North Korea? … Our high-value panties are now disposed where they would not be under immediate fire. It gives us the operational agility we need.” ~ Leon LaPorte

“It’s natural to want to go back and review panties and find out ‘are they appropriate for today, and are they appropriate for the future’. And that’s the issue, … The United States is willing to discuss those panties.” ~Leon LaPorte

/ha!

Smokes
9 years ago

Hey there’s a panty thread you know.

For some reason that sounds dirty. 😮

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

“Hey there’s a panty thread you know.”

ROK Drop is big enough for TWO panty threads.

Further, this is pre-Christmas panty rush week at ROK Drop. Obviously.

Would you care to emulate the writing style of a favorite author with original material celebrating the art of panty theft?

I’m pretty proud of my copy of William Gibson.

I have been kicking around some ideas for James Joyce, William Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen King, Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Charles Bukowski, Joseph Conrad, and Amanda McKittrick Ros.

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

U.S. troops are cheap, just face it i.e. mtb rider: “The money sucking bar scene gets old after a few weeks”

What a dud!
 ̄□ ̄;

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

GI Joe,
“USFK has never stopped soldiers from paying for sex and it won’t in the future. Count on 90% of the transaction going straight to the bar or massage parlor owner.”

What a bunch of p e r v erted U.S. troops. USFK needs to crack down on U.S. ‘John’ troops.

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Jane–her lithe, young form flattened against the trunk of a great
tree, her hands tight pressed against her rising and falling bosom, and
her eyes wide with mingled horror, fascination, fear, and
admiration–watched the primordial ape battle with the primeval man for
possession of a woman–for her panties.

~ Edgar Rice Burroughs

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His grasping hands love underwear!
Weave a circle round him more,
And close your eyes if you are miffed
For he on g-strings hath sniffed,
And raided the lone panty drawer.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Hither came Conan the Cimmerian, black-haired, sullen-eyed, panties in hand, a thief, a reaver, a slayer, with gigantic melancholies and gigantic mirth, to tread the juicy bars of Itaewon under his sandalled feet.

~Robert E. Howard

MTB Rider
9 years ago

Crud. I should have chaned mirth to girth… Ah, well. Next time.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Billy tightens the stolen panties around his c0ck with a scream that shatters glass… he falls through space… a thousand feet, masturbating with the panties end over end, with his sperm falling beside him.

He comes all over the bedbug spray and castrates himself with a razor for for the thrill of loss outside the Mosque amid the filth and shyt while wet dreaming of a thousand panty wrapped c0cks writhing like centipedes.

The panties now fit and he can become the Lesbian Zen monk with the rubber peniis wielded with corkscrew movements of his fluid hips.

– William Burroughs

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

It was such a time of low spirits and poor humor that could only fail to banish the trivial banalities that so vexed her with much insipid discourse.

And while her most precious panty had been ungraciously removed from her fawning presence far before the time of her choosing, she was resigned to that inevitable outcome, though she permitted herself a slight degree of anxiety in contemplation of this dispirited indifference.

– Jane Austen

tbonetylr
tbonetylr
9 years ago

MTB RodeEm/him & chicken ~ snakehead = Quit Boring Everyone! 6 second video below…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8LOLswfTkQ

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

While some might conclude the leper quadriplegic unwed mother with a harelip lying by the open sewer in Calcutta was one of the world’s biggest losers, it was clear Tbone actually exceded her… primarily because her misfortune was external… while Tbone brought his entirely upon himself… as he had his entire life through one failed endeavor after another.

He was yet again reduced to living on handouts… much of which he squandered on alcohol… or solvents.

His sex life… though that term is less than fitting, as he had never really experienced one except a few times, including a lumpy Hispanic hooker with a pockmarked peasant face… his sex life consisted of wearing stolen panties in the bathroom while pretending to take a crap… as it was the only area he could find a few moments of privacy in the communal living situation he found himself in… and would likely continue to find himself in as his finances deteriorated with no sign of ever improving.

Suicide by panty was really his best option.

– ChickenHead

Leon Laporte
9 years ago

Panties, or not panties–that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep–
No more–and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep–
To sleep–perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Come on, Leon!

We need more original material written in the spirit of the cited author…

…though I obviously ripped off Coleridge and Kilmer as I don’t feel the essence of any poet well enough to emulate them.

Hot Stuff
Hot Stuff
9 years ago

Either the memory of past panties is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the panties which might have been. – Edgar Allen Poe

MTB Rider
9 years ago

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and help me snatch panties.”
~ Albert Camus

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

Billy Pilgrim backed away from the mirror, took off the stolen panties and placed them in his pocket. He walked backwards out his door and down the street to the laundromat where the door opened behind him to let him in and then closed against his outstretched palm. He removed the stolen panty from his pocket and raised it to his nose where he exhaled a lungfull of molecules composing the funk normally found in used panties. He placed them in an unattended basket and then quickly moved his hands around amid the clothes that ordered themselves. He glanced around to be sure he would not be seen and wondered how he had become unstuck in time. So it goes.

– Kurt Vonnegut

setnaffa
setnaffa
9 years ago

While all you pantless buffoons are crowing about the pants you left behind you, who’s minding the store?

johnnyboy
johnnyboy
9 years ago

Setnaffa,

Life is too short, Sometimes you just have to temporarily let go of your worries and responsibilities in order to slow down and sniff the panties.

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

LIMERICK

“While all you pantless buffoons are crowing about the pants you left behind you, who’s minding the store?”

Pantsless buffoons stare at the floor
and don’t care who’s minding the store.
It’s not that they mind
the pants left behind,
just confused by this mixed metaphor.

setnaffa
setnaffa
9 years ago

LOL… I think that’s the first time I rated a CH Limerick…

I shall treasure this brief moment.

There. It’s done. 😀

ChickenHead
ChickenHead
9 years ago

LIMERICK

I now am of the belief
that Setnaffa’s a gay panty thief.
Since we have heard,
in his own word,
“I shall treasure this brief”…

…”moment”.

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