It also depends on what part of Korea you're going to. Area I, up close to the DMZ, is not a fun place for military personnel and anyone with any common sense wouldn't bring their family up there, command sponsored or not. Even if NK wasn't acting-up.
You've got a regular curfew you have to deal with, a quasi-hostile public, a very foreign environment, just to name a few.
You're only there a year. You can suck it up that long.