韓宝【ハンボウ】鉄鋼との関係で釜山にいたとき、韓宝側の窓口が河課長【ハガジャン】だった。ハガジャンは軍隊時代、特殊部隊にいた。エリート部隊だ。崖をのぼる訓練で、上をのぼっていた兵隊が落下、巻きこまれてハガジャンも落ちた。昼間はどうということはなかったが、夕方、訓練が終わってから重傷であることがわかり、以来、除隊後もずっとハガジャンは足を引きずって歩いている。
地獄の訓練で、新兵は１日じゅう水を飲ませてもらえない。夕方、川を渡るときに、ぜったいに水を飲むなと新兵たちは命じられる。しかしのどがカラカラの兵隊たちは、水を飲みながら渡河する。対岸に着くと、上官は、
「きさまら、そんなに水が飲みたければ飲ませてやる」
といい、兵隊たちは溺死寸前まで顔を水につけられたという。
訓練中にだれかが死ねば、２週間ほどは訓練が楽になったという。だから口には出さないが、みんな、だれか死なないかと思っている。しかし２週間もすれば、また地獄の訓練にもどる。
韓国陸軍は旧日本軍を模倣しているようだ。
朴正煕は朴クネ大統領のお父さんだ。朴正煕は背は低いが、日本の陸士を優秀な成績で卒業している。
When I was in Busan as a liaison for Humbo Steel, the contact for me was Mr. Ha, one of the section managers of the company. When Mr. Ha had been in the army, he had belonged to special forces, an elite corps. During a hard training, one of the soldiers fell when he climbed up a cliff, and he entangled Mr. Ha who also fell. Mr. Ha was OK during the rest of the training, but, after the training, in the evening, his injury got serious and, since then, he has walked with a limp.
Rookies were not allowed to drink all day during a hellish training. In the evening, when rookies cross a river, they were ordered not to drink, but they drank because they were so thirsty. Then after arriving at the opposite bank, their superior officers said,
“You look thirsty. OK, you drink as much as you want.”
The superiors pressed rookies’ faces into the water until they almost were drowned.
If someone died in the hellish training, the training became easier for two weeks or so. Rookies, therefore, wanted someone would die though they never mentioned it. However in two weeks or so, the training got hellish again.
Seems like the Korean Army imitated the Imperial Japanese Army. Park Chung-hee was Park Geun-hye’s father. Park Chung-hee graduated from the military academy of the Imperial Japanese Army with brilliant academic records, though he was short in height.