Yongpyong (Indian Head TC)
The Yongpyong Indian Head Training Center is one of the forty-two camps north of Seoul authorized Hardship Duty Pay of $150 per month as of 01 January 2001. The Hardship Duty Pay is paid to troops who are permanently assigned to areas where it is authorized or who serve 30 consecutive days of temporary duty in those areas. Several factors are considered in determining whether a location qualified for the pay: climate, physical and social isolation, sanitation, disease, medical facilities, housing, food, recreational and community facilities, political violence, harassment and crime. The extra pay provides meaningful financial recognition to troops assigned in areas where living conditions are substantially below US standards.

Using amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001, the Secretary of the Army was authorized to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects at Yongpyong totalling $11,850,000.

The de facto maritime border runs between five ROK islets - Paengnyong, Taechong, Sochong, Yongpyong, and Woo - and the DPRK mainland. On April 19, 1996 two DRPK torpedo vessels crossed the NBL northwest off Yongpyong Island. On June 14, 1996 three North Korean patrol boats crossed the NBL southwest Yonpyong Island. The ROK joint chiefs of staff announced on 01 July 1999 that nine DPRK crab-fishing boats crossed the northern limit line (NLL) ten kilometers west of Yongpyong island at 12:50pm and fished in waters one to three kilometers inside the buffer zone until 5:30pm, when they returned to port.

During the Korean War the islands of Yongpyong-do and Kanghwa-do at the mouth of the Han River in the Yellow Sea were used as staging bases for partisan operations against the North.