--- title: "Kunsan Air Base airman dies after being found unresponsive in dorm room" date: "2020-07-20" modified: "2020-07-20" authors: - name: "David Roza" job_title: "YouTube Writer/Editor" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/david-roza/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/kunsan-air-base-airman-found-dead-korea/" categories: - "Air Force" - "Around the World" - "Military Branches" - "News" - "United States" tags: - "death" - "indo-pacific command" --- # Kunsan Air Base airman dies after being found unresponsive in dorm room ![]() An airman assigned to the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan Air Base in South Korea was declared dead on Monday after being found unresponsive in a dorm room, 8th Wing public affairs officials said [in a press release](). The airman was found at around 8:50 a.m. on Monday, the release said. Emergency responders arrived on the scene and pronounced the airman dead 20 minutes later. The name of the deceased will be withheld for 24 hours pending notification of the airman’s next of kin, the press release said. The incident is currently under investigation and further details will be provided as they become available. Located on South Korea’s west coast, Kunsan has about 2,800 airmen, soldiers, and civilian employees, according to the base [website](). The base is unique in that service members are assigned to the base without their families. All military members live on the base in dormitories, the website said. ## Author David Roza writes scripts about military news for the Task & Purpose YouTube channel, and he also writes articles about military pay, benefits, health care, child care, culture, and other personnel topics on a freelance basis. Roza previously covered the Air Force and Space Force for Task & Purpose from 2019 to 2023 and for Air & Space Forces Magazine from 2023 to 2025. In the course of that reporting, he has set off a ‘Hollywood explosion’ with Air Force bomb techs, turned the (unarmed) keys of a nuclear missile bunker, hovered over the Nevada desert on an Air Force rescue helicopter, and got the best sleep of his life on the floor of a C-17 over the central Pacific. Share tips and story ideas with David at [david.roza@teamrecurrent.io]()