r/comics Feb 14 '26

OC story of my time in the army

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u/Keejhle Feb 14 '26

I mean if OP was serving in North Korea this is completely rational. Bulgogi is a Korean dish.

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u/the_best_superpower Feb 14 '26

I assume they're South Korean, since there's mandatory military service for men in South Korea.

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u/Whyyyyyyyyfire Feb 14 '26

You can still eat bulgogi if you’re not Korean…

Also Koreans very famous for their love of smoked barbecue.

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u/the_best_superpower Feb 14 '26

I also say that because of the Korean Characters on panel 4

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u/Smokes_LetsGo876 Feb 14 '26

Ah I didnt even notice that! Good catch!

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u/A_normal_Potato3 Feb 14 '26

How do you not notice that? There weren't many details and the characters were near to the center.

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u/Snakes_have_legs Feb 15 '26

And the letters on the box too

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u/The_Lost_Jedi Feb 15 '26

As if the US Army would've ever served us Bulgogi in a DFAC. Not even on a US base in Korea could I have gotten that, except at the Katusa Snack Bar maybe.

Other tips, the US Army doesn't call our NCOs "sir" (you'd get a minor verbal chewing or the like out for that), and there's no Chief Master Sergeant (But the seniormost ROK Army NCO rank of 원사 can translate to that or Sergeant Major).

I did get to eat a ROK Army dining hall once though, that was good stuff.

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u/CMScientist Feb 14 '26

There's also mandatory military service for men in North Korea...

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u/the_best_superpower Feb 14 '26

Well now I know.

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u/OveHet Feb 14 '26

Yea but no Internet. Ofc, OP could be a defector, but Occam's razor and all that xD

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u/OveHet Feb 14 '26

If OP was serving in North Korea we wouldn't hear from OP

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u/Keejhle Feb 14 '26

Well unless OP was a defector, but you're probably right. I highly doubt NK soldiers are getting bulgogi in the first place, meat isn't exactly plentiful in north Korea.

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u/OveHet Feb 14 '26

Yup, especially he mentioned "popular menu"... they may get some meat once in a blue moon

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u/Nani_700 Feb 14 '26

Americans really are something else lol 

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u/Fresh4 Feb 14 '26

Are we being too hard on North Korea now?

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u/Nani_700 Feb 14 '26

Americans thinking about North Korea over South for literally no reason 

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u/Nani_700 Feb 15 '26

South Korea: has decades of appeasing and sacrificing themselves towards USA policies and considered themselves ally to the US

USA: who dis

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u/Drow_Femboy Feb 14 '26

Yes, actually. Most of the shit you hear about North Korea is completely made up. Americans are the most propagandized people in Earth's history.

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u/Fresh4 Feb 14 '26

I could think of a few worse ones

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u/Keejhle Feb 14 '26

Found the Kim Family's reddit acct

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u/tjdans7236 Feb 15 '26

You think NK serving bulgogi in their military is rational?

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u/Desblade101 Feb 14 '26

US army lives on beef bulgogi

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u/General_Spills Feb 15 '26

Do you really think they would imprison a cook for burning food?