Another example of USFK soldiers helping a Korean civilian injured in a traffic related accident:
From left to right: Army Spc. Won Seok Kim, command group driver, Col. Editha Ruiz, deputy commander for nursing, and 1st Lt. Alexander Seawright, nurse, pose at the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital in South Korea, Monday, July 16, 2018. WILLIAM WIGHT/U.S ARMY
Three American medical soldiers were in the “right place at the right time” on Friday the 13th.
Two Army nurses and a command driver were headed from the main U.S. military hospital at Yongsan Garrison in Seoul to a meeting at Camp Humphreys when they saw a woman injured in an accident on the highway near Osan, about 30 miles south of Seoul.
The trio, assigned to the Brian Allgood Army Community Hospital, stopped to help.
Col. Editha Ruiz, deputy commander for nursing, and 1st Lt. Alexander Seawright, a nurse, performed first aid while Spc. Won Seok Kim, the command driver, translated and helped keep others on the scene calm until an ambulance arrived. [Stars & Stripes]
You can read more at the link, but for those not familiar with Korea it is not uncommon to see other Koreans not assist other injured people due to concerns of liability lawsuits.
Maybe they should name a wing of the new hospital at Humphreys after this Army Major: http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2000/200031/olney/news/20864-1.html Army Maj. David Berry, 35, was killed late last month in Seoul, Korea.
Stationed in Seoul for a five-week stay, Berry was stabbed while on a shopping trip June 24. He was taken to the Army’s 121st General Hospital in Seoul, where he died the next day. A Korean laborer, Lee Yong-kyu, 36, was arrested and admitted to the crime, according to the Associated Press.
Mcgeehee
5 years ago
Both daughters were born at the 121st Medical Hobby Shop back in the 80s. Looong freakin story there. Suffice it to say if I had to do it all over again, we’d have gone to a Korean hospital.
J6Junkie
5 years ago
I love how Korean Pravda never once mentioned MAJ Berry’s death or the stabbing. If it were a KN being stabbed then 24 hour coverage and the candlelight vigils all over again.
Smokes
5 years ago
“not familiar with Korea it is not uncommon to see other Koreans not assist”
That’s a lotta “not”. 😆
Does handing out Motrin count as first aid? That is all I ever got from Army medicine.
For the ignorant like me:
Who was Col. Brian Allgood: http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1982/39050/
Yongsan Hospital was renamed in 2008: https://www.army.mil/article/11125
/us_army_hospital_renamed_in_honor_of_col_brian_d_allgood
Maybe they should name a wing of the new hospital at Humphreys after this Army Major: http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2000/200031/olney/news/20864-1.html Army Maj. David Berry, 35, was killed late last month in Seoul, Korea.
Stationed in Seoul for a five-week stay, Berry was stabbed while on a shopping trip June 24. He was taken to the Army’s 121st General Hospital in Seoul, where he died the next day. A Korean laborer, Lee Yong-kyu, 36, was arrested and admitted to the crime, according to the Associated Press.
Both daughters were born at the 121st Medical Hobby Shop back in the 80s. Looong freakin story there. Suffice it to say if I had to do it all over again, we’d have gone to a Korean hospital.
I love how Korean Pravda never once mentioned MAJ Berry’s death or the stabbing. If it were a KN being stabbed then 24 hour coverage and the candlelight vigils all over again.
“not familiar with Korea it is not uncommon to see other Koreans not assist”
That’s a lotta “not”. 😆