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The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

Air raid test now - cool. Smile

They do need to make the sirens louder. In a real emergency, I'd sleep right through this..

Zyzyfer · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 8:48 pm Post subject:

Louder? Sheesh...it was plenty loud here. Echoing throughout the neighborhood. I thought it was just a fire drill, but okay.

Another great reason to work in a public school...you get to dip for monthly air raids. Rock.

IconsFanatic · Joined: 19 Jan 2003

Yeah, they've had several of them here in Busan over the past 10 minutes or so.

Wombat · Joined: 28 May 2003 Location: slutville

Is that what it is?! Is it nationwide? All I can hear is "WHOOOOOOOP WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOP" - I remember it from the last time I was here too. Always on the ready...

Wombat

Son Deureo! · Joined: 30 Apr 2003

Is that what that was? Good thing I checked here, the Koreans at my school didn't seem to know... Rolling Eyes

makushi · Joined: 08 Jun 2003

It would have been nice for the local newspapers to give us a heads up or something...I'm already wigged out enough these days with all the postering by our brothers in the North and the US...Oh well..never a boring (calm) moment in the Land of the Morning Calm...

desultude · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject:

Either we didn't have it in Daegu, or I napped right through it (windows closed, AC on, ear plugs!)

Does anyone have more information?

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

Actually, you do get a heads up - look along the major thoroughfares in your neighbourhood and you'll see the streets lined with white flags with three yellow and green triangles in the middle. They put these up a couple of days before the drill, which usually happens at 2pm on the 16th of every 2nd (or 3rd?) month (used to be every month in the late 90s).

If North Korea was ever going to launch a surprise attack, they'd be wise to do it right then. The whole country would shrug it off as a drill.

makushi · Joined: 08 Jun 2003

denz · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 9:41 pm Post subject:

i swear i used to live right next to one of the actual sirens. it was mind shattering. loved it. scared the hell out of a newbie teacher i worked with, too. i remember saying to him "uh oh, that doesn't sound good". heheh.

someone told me that there are no sirens on the south side of seoul. is this true? is it a kangnam thang?

denz

ps/ lemon - damn you and your strategies! have some tact, most of us live in the killbox you know? ;)

The Lemon · Joined: 11 Jan 2003

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

It went off here as well. Have they got directions to the nuclear bunkers sorted out yet? Oh, and are foreigners allowed in I wonder?

rudyflyer · Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Location: pacing the cage

I was working out and never heard it. If its ever for real I'm in a heap of trouble

katydid · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

Awfully glad Mr. Lemon said something about this to me earlier...I was in my office today and just casually thought "so that's what it sounds like." LOL They were a bit weak sounding.

Last year in Mokpo, I never heard a single siren, and I lived in the downtown area! That kind of freaked me out when my Korean teacher (in Hadang) mentioned it to me one morning "Oh that's for if the North Koreans attack...it's just a drill."

OiGirl · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: Hoke-y-gun

In my neighbornood, there was no reaction whatsoever to the sirens....in the past I have seen people duck into shops and stop their cars, if not pull to the side of the road. But today, nothing...

So, is there some way they will let us know if it's "for real"?