When the drill ended, suddenly this mass stream of cars emerged all at once from the side of the road, and traffic returned to normal. It was a really weird sight!

For bonus points, as a blogger, it’ll give you a feel for what the hot topics of the day are among Koreans.

I can not read or understand Korean. I do not watch TV. Period. I have little or no direct contact with the Korean media world outside of a brief glance at the KT or KH. Ergo, my concern.

That’s just lame.

It caught me by surprise mainly because I’d read in older books how it was a monthly affair but since it’d had never happened when I was there, I thought they’d been dropped, rather than being scaled back to quarterly affairs.

The next day, the Chosun Ilbo (I think it was) ran castigating headlines and shame-inducing photos of people blithely going about their business during the drill.

This post is highly amusing…poor Shelton gets spooked, and all of the most jaded fellows on this board pop up to ridicule him for it. “Geez, it’s just the air raid drill,” I thought, too, but seeing as even Andy and Robert (whom no one here would accuese of being naive) were spooked as well, cut Shelton a little slack. Still, though, I’m pretty sure air raid drills are mentioned in the Lonely Planet Korea guide (unless recent editions don’t mention it), and there’s no excuse for not reading Lonely Planet.