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Furthermore, regarding statements by Democratic Party representative Sang-ho Woo on the 9th that “KATUSA soldiers are a comfortable place,” KATUSA reserve group ‘DC Inside KATUSA Gallery’ said, “has undermined the honor and prestige of hundreds of thousands of KATUSA soldiers and hundreds of thousands of soldiers who are carrying out their defense duties. ” “Official apology” he asked.
The KATUSA Soldiers Gallery issued a statement that day, saying: “KATUSA soldiers are soldiers who belong to the US Army. To fulfill their sacred defense duties, and because the service environment is different. For each unit or position, the intensity of work within the KATUSA Soldiers varies, and the KATUSA Soldier also has some Army units. There are also cases where it is more difficult to live in the army. “
“Within the KATUSA soldiers, the combatants of the 2nd Division, the military policemen and the soldiers belonging to the TANGO Guard Company are trained equal to or better than the Korean army soldiers, and when the KATUSA soldiers were deployed in the JSA Guard, they had the highest level of physical specs in the entire military. “We have carried out intensive training on demand.”
The KATUSA Soldier Gallery said: “We strongly urge that the soldiers who serve in KATUSA Soldiers are also soldiers of the ROK Army and be someone’s precious child, and Rep. Woo strongly urges you to apologize for the comments. from today”.
Representative Woo said in a media interview that day about the controversy over Minister Chu Mi-ae’s son Seo-mo (27) ‘vacation preference’ when he served as a KATUSA soldier in the military, “KATUSA it’s a comfortable place, so it’s a pointless controversy. “
Representative Woo said, “In the case of the army, there is a 100-fold difference in work intensity between those who stand guard at the front and those who work in the Ministry of Defense.” “If the son of a strong child worked in the Department of Defense, for example, and a person without a bag worked at the front, he is angry.” It is obvious that the KATUSA soldiers have been evaluated and entered, and the environment of work is similar everywhere, so millions of active workers are not angry. “
◇ Yongsan soldier KATUSA Lee Nak-yeon “Memory beaten in the army, precious comrades remain”
The KATUSA Gallery said: “I think the leader of the Democratic Party, Nak-yeon Lee, who is from the KATUSA Soldier, knows better than anyone. Lee should explain Representative Woo’s comments. “
The leader of the Democratic Party, Nak-yeon Lee, served as administrator of the 21st Transportation Company of the 8th United States Army in Yongsan, Seoul, from 1974 to 1976. In the memoirs of ‘My Barrack Life’ published in ‘ Monthly Chosun ‘in 2006, revealed that he had performed the speeches of the commander of the United States Army at the time and performed for entertainment.
Representative Lee said: “What did military life leave me? Is it just a painful memory beaten up by older people? “No,” he said, “the two years and seven months of military life left me with precious experiences and memories, and my companions with me naked.”
In 2018, while serving as Prime Minister, Lee also received the ‘Excellent Full-time KATUSA Soldier Achievement Award’ from the US Army in Korea. At the time, he said, “I went back to the US 8th Army, which buried my youth. I can’t forget those days. “
