Movie doesn't play.DPerdue-12 wrote:Yes, now people just pick up a cell phone... In Korea these days, the problem is that they can't put them down! Everybody's little world exists in the palm of their hand. Constant texting. The smartphone has caused a sea change in human behavior, and the Koreans are no exception.OtisRNeedleman wrote:Brings back memories.
Two tours in Korea, 1976-78, then 1982-83. Haven't been back since.
I lived downtown just about all the first tour and all the second tour.
I'd love to have seen what Korea was like in the late 70s and early 80s! When you mentioned that you lived downtown, it reminded me of this goofy Korean movie that I watched a little while back that has scenes of the downtown area:
It's a silly film, but it had to be silly and bereft of dialogue, otherwise the censors back then would have banned it. Perhaps you can see some places in this movie you had visited?
In regards to rations, if you had lived downtown, I'm imagining that you didn't often have to eat MCIs or MREs?
I was Air Force. Never ate MCIs or MREs, at least on an issue basis. Only MREs or TOTMs I have ever eaten were bought at the commissary. I ate regular meals at home, at work, or at the dining hall/NCO Club when enlisted or at the Officers' Club the second tour, when I returned as an officer. Or I'd take my lunch to work.