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Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Anyone else feel like we'll be finding out that North Korea is attacking by reading posts on Dave's ESL?

The Korean news sure as heck isn't fast enough to let us know!

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 24 Jan 2003 Location: Middle Land

That is exactly what I was thinking about!!

Sitting at PC Bang....everyone all cool and collective playing their games...

And we find out on Dave's....

We get up, shout "BOOOOK HAN!!!!!!!" and run for the door.

All the other people just shake there head "babo waygook" and carry on playing....

yoda · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Location: Incheon, South Korea

hempster · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

BBC has just reported that it was probably a TERRORIST attack!!! I live in Seoul and use the subways all of the time Sad

yoda · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Location: Incheon, South Korea

It was not a terrorist attack . . . or so the official version goes. They caught the guy and he was an unemployed taxi driver with some medical condition. He had been raving that he was going to burn down his hospital for months. The guy suffered second degree burns but is going to live.

That is the Korean version anyways, and I see no reason why they would lie at this stage.

Alias · Joined: 24 Jan 2003

Jesus. BBC just reported as many as 100 may have been killed.

iwacima · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Seoul

My god

My Korean co-workers just informed me that they are closing down the Seoul subway for fear of another attack Shocked

What's happening Question

Rand Al Thor · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Locked in an epic struggle

from the chosun ilbo

The arsonist survived the blaze and was arrested at a hospital in Daegu where he was being treated for burns. Police said Kim had a history of mental illness, following a stroke in 2001, which prevented him from working as a truck driver, his previous occupation. They noted he was registered as having a level-two disability, and was being treated for depression.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

This is the latest that I'm hearing on the motive of the arsonist and the total number of casualties.

http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engnews/20030218/200000000020030218165109E8.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23771-2003Feb18.html

sickboy · Joined: 26 Jan 2003 Location: Miari Texas

matko · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: in a world of hurt!

new cnn figures
47 confirmed dead 59 missing and presumed dead.
we all know how the numbers fluctuated during 9/11.
looks like more of the same.
firefighters are having a hard time getting to the missing because of thick and toxic smoke.
anyone from daegu living around that area?

Manner of Speaking · Joined: 09 Jan 2003

My school is ten minutes walk from the subway station. The fire happened in the very center of downtown, which right now is a little quieter than usual, but not by very much. The major downtown street that the subway platform exits on -- parallel to the main pedestrian mall -- is closed to traffic except for emergency vehicles; the riot police have it cordoned off and have set up at least one small command post. According to Yahoo! news a list of the dead has been posted (I'm assuming its a list of confirmed dead) at the command post. It's rather quiet around the subway exit right now, a small crowd of gawkers and mostly police, ambulance, etc. staff are just waiting. If there really are more than a hundred dead I assume it's going to take a long time for forensics people to document all the remains down there.

I'm in a pc bang in downtown right now, reading the news on the cbc, bbc, cnn, and Yahoo! websites. I must confess that the news stories seemed so unbelievable that I did wander down to the scene and watched the rescue goings on for a few moments. I didn't stay long, that would have been vulgar. Then I called my mother.

chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Jungangno station is a 5-10 minute walk from where I am, but I was bedridden with a cold all day today, so I didn't go outside to check things out.

Kyungpook University Hospital is a stone's throw from me and that's the main hospital that they've been using. I've been hearing ambulance sirens all day. It's tapered off some, but they're still going.

My friend walked by Kyungpook today and saw all the news trucks from NBC, BBC and whatnot. It's very surreal. Daegu is relatively serene and hasn't seen anything like this since 1995, when there was the gas explosion in one of the subway construction sites that killed a 100 people or so.

Kind of depressing looking around at some of the faces of my directors and co-workers, watching the TV, as they won't know for awhile if they knew anyone that was killed or injured.

Jungangno station is the busiest rush hour station in Daegu and rush hour was still going strong when this happened. Sad.

kimcheeking · Guest

A list of the dead has been broadcast on kbs for a couple of hours at least now.

gajackson1 · Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2003 4:34 am Post subject:

MSNBC has it on the front page now . . .

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap02-18-035137.asp?reg=pacrim&vts=21820030358

More as I find out - it looks like it will be a higher toll than the Koreans are letting on.

I am VERY glad that it is not looking like a terrorist attack at this point. But it DOES go to show how vulnerable subways are (as if the Japanese sarin-scare wasn't enough to do so).

Cross your fingers . . .

Glen