This has been necessary for 10 years, at least. I think the good guys have about 40,000 people in South Korea. Seems to me they could be used very much more efficiently somewhere else.
Ya, like on our borders!
If by the "good guys" you mean the United States, we have 37,000 troops stationed in S.K.
This place has been such an incredible poweder keg for so many year (at least since the Korean Armistice) it is just a miracle it hasn't blown already.
Funny. The S. Koreans still bear a deep hatred of Japan for it's occupation for over 50 years prior to WWII.
The Japanese pillaged S.K., cut down all the trees and exported them to Japan, forced the S. Koreans to speak only Japanese, and taxed them heavily.
It appears we are now being seen by many S. Koreans as no more than occupationists.