Many Koreans tell me that they pay for everything to keep the US soldiers in their country, but I think that the Americans must be paying for the cost of equipment, salaries, rent etc...
2007-12-28 18:12:35 · 3 answers · asked by wesleyelvis 2 in Travel ➔ Asia Pacific ➔ Korea
S. Korea pays approx 40% of total operating cost. Japan pays approx 55% of the US cost. Currently the US is negotiating to increase the share that SKorea should pay.
Thailand and Philippines are negotiating to have the us return for about 15% of cost.
2007-12-29 10:50:13 · answer #1 · answered by survivorintherok 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not as much as they should.
They paid $710 million dollars in 2005, less than 50% of total costs.
Also in the SOFA agreement there are some pretty messed up things about how many Koreans must be hired, what it takes to fire a bad worker, etc. (It is sad to go to an on-post restaurant where the service is lousy and then have a waitress demand a tip. I have gone to many places off-post where the waitress was on top of everything and we couldn't force a tip on the waitress.)
They are also paying for some of the move, but I don't know how much. Again I suspect it is not as much as they should.
2007-12-28 21:18:56 · answer #2 · answered by Boom Blatz 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Korea , in the past , could not pay for what it cost the US Military to be there for one day . I doubt it is paying anything . It may well be that the US is paying them , as they certainly do in Germany
2007-12-28 20:16:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋