Let me tell you a horror story: the swill that the mainland troops usually use to feed pigs is better than the food of the Korea troops!
This is not my nonsense, even the Korea soldiers themselves said that they usually eat not as well as the prisoners in prisons,
The three meals a day are kimchi with some white rice, plus a few pieces of radish and cucumber, and if you can add a kelp soup, it will be considered a high fragrance.
Han army food
So what if you want to eat meat? It doesn't matter, there is a high probability that there will be an extra meal during the New Year's festival to let the soldiers open the meat. I seem to have discovered something incredible: no wonder Koreans like to rob our traditional festivals so much, because they eat meat because they are too energy-saving.
The above is not an exaggeration, in the early years of the 38th parallel, North Korean soldiers would even throw leftover chicken bones to the opposite side, mocking Korea soldiers for not having meat to eat. Yes, this is cold knowledge, North Korean soldiers eat better than Korea soldiers.
Isn't there a joke on the Internet: If there is a war in the future, the old irons in the Northeast can directly cook a few pots of pork stewed vermicelli, and they can persuade the Korean army to surrender on the spot.
And not only within the army, there is no food and meat, but also the Korea people, and even the food security of professional athletes is surprisingly low.
Food for Korea athletes
So what is the reason why Korea, which is known as a developed country, is still not full of food in the 21st century, and is the food of the Korean army really so bad?
How bad is the food of the Korean army?
In October 2022, Korea's "Kookmin Daily" reported one such incident, a Korea army soldier posted a photo to show off the army's high-end food, which directly subverted the world's perception of Korea troops, the photo showed two small plates filled with lobster, sushi, fried tempura, a whole ginseng chicken, Italy noodles and small bread, etc.
The soldier was also accompanied by a copywriter: "Now the food of the troops has become the motivation to overcome the hard training."
Han Jun's food (partial)
One thing to say, this food is so sumptuous that it is surprising? I knew that it was army food, and if I didn't know, I thought it was a severed head meal!
Not only did I feel surprised, but the Koreans themselves were even more surprised, and Korea's "National Daily" even took the lead in spraying, which roughly means: What conditions in your own home do you not have X in your heart? Do you look at what kind of cattle and horse food the army eats every day, and make it up without losing your conscience? None of the U.S. troops stationed in Korea have ever eaten such good food!
The "National Daily" has not finished spraying, and then the "Chosun Ilbo" also came to lift the table, saying that this is just a show by the Korea military, let alone lobsters, they can't even eat enough.
As for what Han Jun usually eats, that is, the kimchi, radish and rice I mentioned at the beginning, the simple thing I didn't have to use any rhetorical device to introduce it.
But if you usually eat a little simpler, at most, you don't have much strength when you train. However, the current food of the Korean army is still facing serious safety and health problems.
According to the Kookmin Daily, from 2017 to 2022, the Ministry of Defense of Korea received as many as 118 reports of incidents about "foreign objects found in the meals of officers and soldiers." Among them, "insects" were the most common foreign bodies, with 30 cases (25.4%), and plastic items accounted for the second place, with 29 cases (24.6%). This was followed by 24 cases of foreign bodies in hair, 9 cases of metal objects such as blades, and 20 cases of other foreign bodies such as rat droppings found in food.
Bugs in the food of the Korean army
And the key point here is that these are only the data reported to the Ministry of Defense, and with the oppressive and bullying environment in the Korea army, there will only be more food hygiene problems that have not been reported and dare not be reported.
Do you think it's the end of the matter here, far from it!
The "National Daily" also investigated: There are still cases in the Korea army where officers take advantage of their positions to eat soldiers' food without authorization, which leads to the soldiers' fried eggs and sauces cannot be distributed in full, and in the end they can only provide simple meals such as rice and kimchi.
You said that the soldiers were not fed and nourished, and that they had to give their meagre rations to the officers.
Seeing this, many people have questions: Why did the officers of the army snatch food from the mouths of soldiers?
That's because: even the officers don't have enough to eat.
In May of this year, the Chosun Ilbo published a photo of an officer of the ROK Army's 6th Infantry Division showing off his food on the Internet, including a bunch of potato chips, a bowl of Korean-style jajangmyeon stolen from China with sauce but no meat, a bowl of miso soup with a little seafood, five slices of pickled radish, a few kimchi, and a small portion of rice.
At first glance, it feels good, and it doesn't feel as bad as the factory director said? But it should be noted here that this meal is a supplementary meal, an officer's additional meal, the kind of additional meal that you can't usually eat!
And he also showed off the meal on social platforms: the standard of the army's meals is very high, and it is usually delicious, and he is very satisfied with it.
With such a level of extra meals, you can show off on the Internet, so you can imagine how miserable those ordinary soldiers who don't even have the qualifications to add meals can be?
In fact, there have been ordinary soldiers in Korea who have exposed their food on the Internet before, and there are only two slices of meat on the empty dinner plate! There are also a few slices of kimchi, a few discolored greens, and a little kelp soup.
It's really pure beef and horse food! At this point, I seriously suspect that the troops and the Ministry of Defense of Korea are abusing soldiers and have committed crimes similar to "crimes against humanity"!
Why is the food of the Korean army so bad? Doesn't anyone care?
Many people will definitely have questions: Korea is a developed country, is it really that poor? No matter how poor you are, you can't make the soldiers hungry, right?
In fact, this matter is also simple, according to the latest information released by Korea, the Korean army currently maintains the meal standard of 4333 won per person per meal, about 22.61 yuan, and this meal standard will be frozen for 3 consecutive years.
At first glance, it seems that 22 yuan per meal is not low, right, but the reality is that Korea can also produce some rice, such as meat, eggs, dairy products, and even fruit supply, they have a serious shortage.
Since you don't have it yourself, of course you have to import it! The cost of this import is calculated, not to mention 22 yuan per meal, if you eat a little better, you may not be able to beat 100 yuan.
Don't think it's an exaggeration, let's take pork as an example, last year the price of a pound of pork in Korea reached 10,000 won (about 54.21 yuan), about four times as much as ours. If it is beef, it will be more expensive, as high as more than 200 per catty.
The price of pork in Korea
And what's even worse is that Korea also needs to save face, how can all the military food of a country be imported, and it is a joke to say it.
On the one hand, the price is high, and on the other hand, it is to save face, which has led to the current worrying diet situation of Korea soldiers.
Someone compared the food of the army and the prison in the same period, and they were pleasantly surprised to find that the food of the criminals was better than that of the army!
Comparison of prison and army meals in Korea
Speaking of this, we can understand why the Korean soldiers can cause such a big movement just by posting a photo of the meal, because the fake is too outrageous, and the contrast with their daily life is too great, so big that the Korean soldiers themselves can't stand this kind of fraud and humiliation.
But what the Korea soldiers never expected was that the real humiliation had not yet arrived!
According to Korea's official statistics, as of February this year, the ex-factory price of pig feed in Korea was about 727 won per kilogram, and a normal pig of about 160 kilograms per eyebrow had to eat nearly 6 kilograms of pig feed per meal, that is, the cost of feeding a meal to a pig had reached 4362 won, which exceeded the standard of 4333 per meal for South Korean soldiers.
Pig feed-related data
One thing to say, with such a diet of the Korean army, can you imagine what combat effectiveness their soldiers can have?
As the saying goes, the people take food as the sky, and the soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved. Each country has strict standards for the food supply of its troops, and for the sake of the soldiers' combat effectiveness, everyone will not prepare too much.
But the diet of the Korea army always makes people feel that the country is suffering from natural disasters and preparing for war. However, it is not too strange that this kind of thing happened in Korea's Shenzhen Airlines, and even the army hot pot that was regarded as a delicious food in the world was extracted and refined from the leftover garbage of the US troops stationed in South Korea that year.
Troop hot pot
And the phenomenon of bad food in Korea is not only in the army, everyone should remember that when we held the Winter Olympics the year before last, you can see Korean gobbling up in the restaurants of various venues, and many people on the Internet sighed at that time: Look at these Korea children to be hungry!
And these Korea athletes have very hard mouths, even if they eat more, the small mouth also said that we have to eat badly, saying that Chinese food is too greasy and unhealthy. But as a result, they were eating and scolding while packing, taking away everything that could be packed, and eating on the spot if they couldn't, giving full play to the culture of stealing the country.
Sources of information:
Global Network "Korea Army Eats Lobster? The problem of feeding in the military is still seriously questioned, Korean netizens: show"
Guangming Network "Korea will reduce military meal expenses, and the military holiday meal supplement is not as good as prisoners"