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sojusucks
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 Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:55 am Post subject: Have a safe Cuseok. |
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Be careful during this Chuseok Holiday.
Source: Stars & Stripes (http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=64281&archive=true)
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SEOUL � The top U.S. Army officer in South Korea is cautioning soldiers to avoid the roads during the upcoming Chuseok holiday, when millions of Koreans return to their hometowns to celebrate the harvest season.
U.S. Forces Korea Gen. Walter Sharp stressed in a message on the command�s Web site that travel "is extremely difficult due to traffic jams on freeways and major rural routes."
In recent years, Stripes has reported as many as 70 million people on the roads during Chuseok weekend.
The three-day holiday will take place Sept. 13-15, though Sharp said Chuseok activities will extend several days before and after the weekend.
Sharp said the holiday, along with Labor Day weekend, would be a "well-deserved break" after the recent Ulchi Freedom Guardian exercise, but the long weekends could become "a time of immense tragedy" if servicemembers and their leaders do not make safe choices. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| 70 million people in a country that has only 49 million people? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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| 35 million people leaving on Saturday and 35 million coming back on Monday? |
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Gollywog
Joined: 14 Jun 2008
Location: Debussy's brain
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| Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! There are 72 million Koreans already, according to wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea
Does this include North Korea?
Do 2 million Koreans stay home during Chuseok?
At any rate, 70 million Koreans on the road? Don't they drive cars?
I wonder what it would happen if you put 70 million Koreans end to end on the roads? |
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