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February 27th, 2009 at 6:08 pm USFK Looking to Enroll Korean Students in DOD Schools
in: USFK

Is USFK so desperate for cash that now they want to recruit Korean students to attend DOD schools in order to help pay for new facilities?

The U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) made an official proposal to the Korean education ministry Thursday to allow Korean students to attend schools at its camp in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

The plan was unveiled when USFK Commander Gen. Walter Sharp met Education, Science and Technology Minister Ahn Byong-man in Seoul, ministry officials said.

Pyeongtaek will accommodate a new centralized U.S, base here.

In return for enrollment of Korean students at the base schools that will adopt the American education curriculum, the Korean government was asked to share a certain amount of the cost involved in building the schools.

The Korean government has yet to respond to the proposal. “We cannot say anything for now but Minister Ahn listened to the commander,” an official, who declined to be named, said. [Korea Times via reader tip]

It just makes me wonder where all the economic stimulus money the DOD received has gone to if USFK cannot even afford to build new schools on its own for its soldiers’ children?