Camp Market (Incheon)

Korea (South) / Kyonggi / Puchon / Incheon
i have no idea what is behind this walled place, i often passed by around its vicinity and i noticed that maybe this used to be a marketplace. there are parking areas and well paved roads inside it but all its gate are already locked-up.
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Coordinates:   37°29'45"N   126°42'42"E

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  • I was station at Ascom Depot Area (Camp Market) 1970/71 516th Lem. Co.(GS) HQ & HQ 20th General Support Group,as Chemical Equipment Repairman,in the Chemical Section.
  • Camp Market was not at incohon , it was at Ascom. It has been turned over to South Korea and is now a built up area for housing and other things. Camp Market was the major supply point for agent orange in the sixties and seventies. I understand the South Korean government has done soil exams and found major toxins in the ground.
  • Camp Market was a staging area when I got to Korea in 1971. We landed Kimpo, trucked to ASCOM, given a quick 1 hour initiation, told we could not leave base, next day I got sent to Camp Humphries and then back to Camp Mercer. B co 802nd Engineers 1971-1973. Korea has changed a lot more than the US!
  • I was stationed at Camp Market in the 1980's. It's location is Pupyong-dong, Inchon. Pupyong was, at the time of the Korean War, a village separate from Inchon, but was incorporated into Inchon as the city grew. ASCOM is the abbreviation for Army Support Command. It's not a city name. In the 1980's, Camp Market was the home of the 55th MP Company, Kimpo Airport postal detachment, and the warehouses for all the PX's and Commissary stores in Korea, as well as the furniture warehouses for Yangsang Army base in Seoul.
  • I was stationed there as well, in 1985-87. 55th MP Co. I enjoyed the extreme smallness of that little place. A very low stress duty station for sure!!
  • I was stationed at Camp Market with the 55th MP Company assigned to the motor pool I also worked at the orderly room as a driver and distribution messenger for 1st seargent Worley in 1976-1977 great times sp/4 Francisco Cerda ponchoc56@yahoo.com
  • Your description of what happened back then are accurate. I got in there on Labor Day weekend 1971. After working the annual alert maneuvers with Security and Intelligence, I was made a chaplain's assistant there and lived upstairs over the big chapel. I wish I could find a pic of the front of it. Thanks for the memory. Gary. (Guest)
  • I arrived in Korea in October of 1971, and was stationed at Camp Red Cloud in Ui-jeong-bu with the 2nd 71st ADA. I remember leaving ASCOM headed for Yongsan, and the bus briefly stopped at a camp with the words: "Howard Johnson's" spelled out on the mess hall roof. Was that Camp Mercer does anybody know? I have wondered for all these years, and have been trying to figure out what base it might have been. Thanks for any help.
  • Hi mr William Kennedy my name is Francisco Cerda and,I was stationed in Camp Market in 1976 and 1977 and I will like to know more about the agent orange in camp market thank you, ponchoc56@yahoo.com.
  • I arrived at ASCOM in early October 1970 from Kimpo Airport. We in-processed with the 120th General Hospital and stayed the night before moving on to Camp Casey and the 7th Replacement Company. I well remember going down the mountain road past Camp Red Cloud, then HQ for I Corps, and seeing all the i Corps units strung out along the road and in less than 6 months most of them were closed as the 7th Infantry Division, where I was going, deactivated. It was a sad experience being in or witnessing downsizing as USFK went from 60,000+ soldiers when I arrived, to 40,000 when I departed 13 months later. It is now 25,000.
  • It was called " Ascom Depot " when I was stationed there with the 8TH Army in 1965-66. It was a supply Depot for the area.
  • Parachute Rigger stationed at Cp. Market ..70-72 Lived behind the Apollo Club ...
  • Hi, my name is Lisa and I was stationed there for six months in 1983 at the medical station there as a medic. I like the area because it was like going back in time . I never liked being isolated and far away from America. I was a very lonely time for me. I was transfered to Seoul kind of like a punishment from My superior officer because I couldnt get ahold of any superiors at the time in a medical emergency . There had been a Katusa who had injured himself badly and I had to call down to Seoul to get emergency help and no one in my chain of command answered their phone. I quess now , looking back I figured everything out. I was only fresh out of high school at the time. My superior must have gotten in a lot of trouble which was why he was so upset with me. I was only trying to get help for the young man. The whole thing bothers me to this day. Anyways, I had a pretty good experience at Camp Market. I loved the real Korean food off post. I love Korean food. I love the people . Any ways , everyone reading this ... have a nice day and God bless. Lisa
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