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Some 80 students injured in car accident
About 80 middle school students were injured while on the way home from an excursion after a collision led to a pileup of 10 buses and sedans inside a tunnel on an expressway in South Korea's central province. The pileup occurred at 3:10 a.m. Friday when a driver rear-ended a bus, triggering the accident near Yongin, a southern suburb of Seoul, on the South-East Highway.
Yonhap News (December 22, 2006)
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engnews/20061222/410200000020061222214025E3.html

Korea Second in OECD Car Accident Rankings
By Yoon Ja-young, Korea Times (March 28, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/biz/200603/kt2006032823015411910.htm

Renault Samsung Motors seeks to improve traffic safety awareness
Korea has the highest rate of children killed in traffic accidents among 15 OECD members. According to the OECD, 4.7 out of 100,000 children aged 14 or younger were killed in car accidents last year, four times more than in Sweden and three times more than in Japan.
The Korea Herald (December 20, 2006)
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2006/12/20/200612200039.asp

Montrealers don't hold a stick to Seoul drivers
by Yoav Cerralbo, CBC News Viewpoint (July 20, 2004)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_cerralbo/20040720.html

[Zark]

I drove a car for three years in Korea - in my most recent "tour". No problems. Drive carefully, keep your speed down - no problem.

In my first three year tour, I drove a motorcycle - and did nail a pedestrian. Uh . . . but that one was my fault!

It's not really as difficult as it might seem.

I didn't live in Seoul in either visit (Pusan the first time) - but did visit Seoul frequently. But, while visiting Seoul, I would leave my car at a "love motel" and just take a taxi - primarily for convenience as parking would be a giant hassle.