A soldier dumped formaldehyde into Seoul’s main river.
Evidence
In another case (dramatized in the 2006 film The Host), a soldier at an Army base in the middle of Seoul dumped twenty gallons of formaldehyde—a chemical that causes cancer in some animals and may cause cancer in humans—into the capital’s Han River. After the incident sparked national outrage, the U.S. ambassador in Seoul took five months to express personal regret about the contamination. The Army announced it would spend $100 million to replace fuel tanks at bases throughout South Korea to avoid leaks and improve its environmental reputation. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 410
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- U.S. troops buried hundreds of leaky Agent Orange barrels at a Seoul base (similarity 0.83)
- Veterans buried Agent Orange barrels at a Seoul base in the 1970s. (similarity 0.82)
- Fourteen of thirty-four returned U.S. bases in South Korea exceed local cancer-chemical standards (similarity 0.81)
- Underground water at Camp Kim exceeded petroleum limits by nearly a thousand times (similarity 0.81)