[2중급용] 1 The Zaytun Unit, Korea’s largest overseas military contingent

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The Zaytun Unit, Korea’s largest overseas military contingent
since the Vietnam War, is conducting
an experiment in military logistics in Iraq.
The combat unit has outsourced its catering business
to a private contractor.
In this, it is only following
in the footsteps of the United Staes.
U.S. forces in Iraq already make wide use of private contractors
for equipment maintenance,kitchen work
and even patrolling and guarding of camps,
with 40 percent of their military spending estimated
to be paid to private contractors.
◆ Helping the unit settle down
In October 2004, an advance team of the Zaytun Unit arrived
in Irbil in northern Iraq,
at the end of a 1,115 km trip
under U.S. aerial protection.
The location was a barren field,
where soldiers faced huge difficulties.
At one point, they had difficulty securing even tent cloth.
They could not afford to roam
about the downtown area to buy more:
if any of them should be attacked by insurgents,
public opinion back in the country would turn immediately
against their presence in Iraq.
So it was Kim Suk-tae (53),
the president of Arco, a regional construction firm,
who solved the problem.
Kim, a builder based in Kuwait, arrived in Iraq
to do business there
as soon as the war was declared over in May 2003.
I had no choice.
I knew Iraq well,
so I went to the market to buy tent cloth,
he recalls.
He interviewed former Iraqi special forces troops
and hired them as bodyguards.
Escorted by them,
he traveled all over Iraq
to buy tent cloth and building materials.
In the early morning,
he drove a truck to the flashpoint of Mosul,
where bombing attacks occurred every day,
to buy the cloth.
In the evening,
he drove to Kirkuk to buy building materials.
At one point on the road,
armed bandits attacked,
firing at his truck.
But they fled when his bodyguards fired back.
After buying the tent cloth,
Kim had it sewn in Irbil
and supplied it to the Zaytun Unit.
Mobilizing local workers,
he also helped the unit surround its 3.3 million sq. m outer area
with barbed wire.
A Zaytun officer says it would have been virtually impossible
for the unit to settle down
if it hadn’t been for Kim's assistance.