Korean Phrases.

[Taltarzac725]

Korean Phrases - Hear Korean Words and Basic Phrases (http://www.transparent.com/learn-korean/phrases.html)

I used to hear some of these from my University of Minnesota room mate who was a MD from South Korea getting his 2nd Ph.D here in America. He was a welcome break from talking to law students who sometimes only wanted to talk about how much their socks, suit, tie, recent meals, cost.

20 Useful Korean Phrases for Tourists - YouTube (https://youtu.be/A7qVwQk149w)

[John_W]

I spent 13 months in Korea, which was some 45 years ago, basically the last two months of 1970 and all of 1971. I was in the DMZ about 4 miles south of the border at Stanton Army Airfield (now known as Camp Stanton). A very small post with only about 150 soldiers and many of our chores were shopped out to Katusa (Koreans Assigned to the United States Army) These guys wore uniforms but generally came from rich families that could keep them out of Vietnam. We basically only did our job assignments and had plenty of free time. However, it made you feel as if you were isolated, a trip down to Seoul was needed about once every month or two.

The USA was responsible for about 20 miles of the 38th parallel. We had helicopters that patrolled up and down the fence or the river looking for infiltrators. It is strange sometimes when I hear about events that happened or played on TV in 1971, it's like that year doesn't exist for me. I do remember being told Jim Morrison had died, it was like on the 4th of July 1971. Such a shock since I was wearing out the new record L.A. Woman. When I finally got home I remember my dad telling me about this great new TV show called Archie Bunker.

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The only Korean phrase I remember is Thank You, "gahm sah hahm ni da". Whenever I run into a Korean clerk at a store or gas station, instead of saying thank you, I'll say gahm sah hahm ni da. However, we were taught to pronounce it as "colm som me da".

We were wedged between two small hills, a very mountainous terrain. On downwind, aircraft flying parallel to the runway but opposite from landing direction, we would lose sight of the helicopter because of the mountain. The airfield was on one side of the road and the barracks, mess hall, NCO Club and everything else was on the other side. You actually went out one gate and into another to go to the airfield. There was a village no more than 50' from our gate.

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We use to do all kinds of stupid stuff, pranks I guess, as a controller both in the Army and the FAA. One of my favorite at Stanton was on the weekends the RC Club would go down to one of the runway and fly their airplanes. I found out that one of our frequencies FM 47.2, when keyed would knock out their signal. You can imagine the fun we had when their transmitters stopped working and and their airplane went out of control. When they lost one of their planes in the village we quit doing that.

[Taltarzac725]

I spent 13 months in Korea, which was some 45 years ago, basically the last two months of 1970 and all of 1971. I was in the DMZ about 4 miles south of the border at Stanton Army Airfield (now known as Camp Stanton). A very small post with only about 150 soldiers and many of our chores were shopped out to Katusa (Koreans Assigned to the United States Army) These guys wore uniforms but generally came from rich families that could keep them out of Vietnam. We basically only did our job assignments and had plenty of free time. However, it made you feel as if you were isolated, a trip down to Seoul was needed about once every month or two.

The USA was responsible for about 20 miles of the 38th parallel. We had helicopters that patrolled up and down the fence or the river looking for infiltrators. It is strange sometimes when I hear about events that happened or played on TV in 1971, it's like that year doesn't exist for me. I do remember being told Jim Morrison had died, it was like on the 4th of July 1971. Such a shock since I was wearing out the new record L.A. Woman. When I finally got home I remember my dad telling me about this great new TV show called Archie Bunker.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51hHtmKaEgL._AC_US160_.jpg

The only Korean phrase I remember is Thank You, "gahm sah hahm ni da". Whenever I run into a Korean clerk at a store or gas station, instead of saying thank you, I'll say gahm sah hahm ni da. However, we were taught to pronounce it as "colm som me da".

We were wedged between two small hills, a very mountainous terrain. On downwind, aircraft flying parallel to the runway but opposite from landing direction, we would lose sight of the helicopter because of the mountain. The airfield was on one side of the road and the barracks, mess hall, NCO Club and everything else was on the other side. You actually went out one gate and into another to go to the airfield. There was a village no more than 50' from our gate.

http://i0.wp.com/farm6.staticflickr.com/5775/20335568869_942a72c108_o.jpg?resize=495%2C290&ssl=1

We use to do all kinds of stupid stuff, pranks I guess, as a controller both in the Army and the FAA. One of my favorite at Stanton was on the weekends the RC Club would go down to one of the runway and fly their airplanes. I found out that one of our frequencies FM 47.2, when keyed would knock out their signal. You can imagine the fun we had when their transmitters stopped working and and their airplane went out of control. When they lost one of their planes in the village we quit doing that.

My room mate at the U of MN had been a Korean army doctor. He had said that all South Korean males or most of them had to do military service. Conscription in South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_South_Korea)

I did tell him my Dad had been a M.A.S.H. person but he never got to South Korea during an active war. The Korean War ended before he would have been sent into a combat theater.