Pyeongtaek Residents Weigh In on USFK Relocation

Nomad has the latest on a survey taken about the attitudes of Pyeongtaek residents on the USFK relocation to Camp Humphreys:

 Out of 1,000 people surveyed in the Pyeongtaek area by the Gyeonggi Research Institute, 41.9 percent said they had a positive perception of the planned Camp Humphreys expansion, 38.3 percent said they disliked or strongly disliked the addition of more troops, and 19.8 percent didn’t care one way or the other.  When asked how they feel about the proposed relocation of 2ID to their area, one in four people said they strongly disliked the move – mainly because unlike Yongsan, 2ID is made up of mostly single personnel.

First of all let me say I am always skeptical of polls taken in Korea, but the results on this one sound about right.  Basically you have over 60% of the population who either support or don’t care one way or the other about the relocation of USFK to Camp Humphreys.  I actually find these numbers encouraging because for the last year the USFK relocation to Camp Humphreys has been hit with constant anti-US demonstrations organized by North Korean agents and the issue has been demagoged continuously by Korean activists and politicians to advance their own agendas.  Heck the demagoging of the Camp Humphreys issue was even picked up by American leftist Cindy Sheehan.  Despite all of this the leftists and spies still couldn’t sway the majority of public opinion in Pyeongtaek against the relocation.  It is an encouraging sign that the South Korean love affair with leftism and anti-Americanism is slowly waning.