USFK Officially Hands Over Remaining Camp Market Land Back to South Korea
I did not know that Camp Market had not already been handed over, the facility has been closed for years:
The site of Camp Market, a former U.S. military base, in Bupyeong, about 25 kilometers west of Seoul, is seen in this photo taken Dec. 20, 2023. (Yonhap)
The U.S. military in South Korea fully returned its former base, Camp Market, to the Asian country Wednesday, the defense ministry said, as part of a broad relocation scheme to consolidate its bases across South Korea.
The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) handed over about 257,000 square meters of land in Camp Market near Seoul to South Korea, four years after returning some 216,000 square meters of land in the base in the first phase.
The agreement was made in a meeting of the South Korea-U.S. Status of Forces Agreement Joint Committee, which governs the legal status of the 28,500 American soldiers stationed in South Korea.
“As the rest of the site of Camp Market, which was used for a bread factory and warehouse, has been returned, the return process of a total of 473,000 square meters of land has been completed,” the defense ministry said in a joint statement with the ministries of foreign affairs, environment and land.
Yonhap
You can read more at the link.
Why didn’t they say it was in Incheon instead of “near Seoul” or (in the full article) “25 kilometers west of Seoul”?
Address is FPV7+FH Bupyeong-gu, Incheon, South Korea
Google Maps Satellite View: http://tinyurl.com/CampMartket
Went there many times back in the day. It was also known as ASCOM (army supply command). That’s where the stockade was and a lieutenant and I would run prisoners back and forth. Ate at the stockade, after we check in our weapons, and they would have the prisoners serve us and clean up after us. They had to call everyone “sir”!