About Us

Shalom House was built in 1968 to serve the military community of the 2nd Infantry Division located here in the city of Dongducheon, South Korea. Throughout its 41-year-old history, there remains a close working relationship with the chaplains and chapel programs on-post.

Our building contains thirty rooms. Broken down, it includes a bunkroom, a spacious six-room apartment for the director, three offices, a large lounge, a sufficient kitchen, laundry room, and two back storage rooms behind the kitchen. It also includes an Internet room, five bathrooms, eight separate classrooms and a chapel on the third floor. The three-story building is definitely showing its age but it is being well-used.

As far as the city of Dongducheon is concerned, its population is around 70,000 people and is located 10 miles SW of the DMZ line that separates the two Koreas. The Seoul Metro Subway line recently opened up its Dongducheon station and one can now commute from our city to Seoul in 1¼ hours. For the most part, it is not an especially pleasant city to reside in. Almost directly across the street from Shalom House, is a large ¾ of a mile strip of bars, clubs, dance halls, restaurants, stores, drinking establishments often filled with “juicy girls” from the Philippines and Russia working there to ‘service’ the American soldiers of which there are about 8,000 stationed here. Unfortunately, human trafficking is alive and well here as is gambling, prostitution and pornography. My so-called competition is just across the street and much of the city has grown up around sprawling Camp Casey and Hovey