Truth of Contamination at U.S. Military's Yongsan Garrison Begins to Emerge

South Korean environmental campaigners won a significant victory against the country’s environment ministry on Tuesday. Minbyun (Lawyers for a Democratic Society), a civil rights NGO, had sued the environment minister in a bid to force the disclosure of information about environmental pollution on U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan, a huge military base in central Seoul. Environmentalists and Seoul Metropolitan Government have long been aware of high levels [http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edit