There’s an article in the New Yorker where the interviewer complains that the US military is occupying too much good land.
"The U.S. military base near my apartment is prime real estate. Koreans are living in such highly concentrated apartments surrounding the base, and then you go in, and it’s the suburbs of Los Angeles. It’s spread out—there are lawns and two-story homes. There’s a complete wall. It’s a fortress, just like the U.S. Embassy is a fortress. People are so used to it that they don’t think about a foreign military occupying the country.”
On the other hand,
Note the part about conscription.
but unless I’m misinterpreting things…
consists of 28500 personnel,
the Korean people’s Army
consists of 950,000 active personnel, 600,000 in reserves, and 5.9 million paramilitaries.
