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[jdog2050]

So,

An EMP has not only hit South Korea, but the entire Eastern Hemisphere, possibly the world. It could've come from a directed Nuke or a massive solar flare. No one knows.

However, that's not your problem. You're stuck in Korea, a country the size of Indiana with 8x the population and a hostile enemy blocking Northern land migration.

What is your survival plan?

Details:
You must start the scenario from where you are or were on 5pm May 14th.

You only have what is on your possession right now.

There is no attack or overt-war from North Korea.

It's an EMP like phenomenon so combustion still works, but any modern car with computer-controlled ignition does not. Any electronic device that was fully assembled at the time of the phenomenon is completely fried, even if it was off. EMP hardened electronics work but are few and far between.

[Squire]

A country where rotten food is eaten with every meal will probably fare better than most places

Would a strong EMP really destroy every electronic device? I'd still have my scooter I suppose

[jdog2050]

My contribution:

Day One--

I work in an office. So the blackout would immediately halt all work I'm able to do. I'd wander downstairs to get a break and generally see what's going on. Finding thousands of people getting out of their cars and absolutely nothing working would be get my spidey sense tingling. In a panic, I take out my cell-phone. Dead.

I'd go back to my workplace and let them know that something really serious is happening. Much worse than a typical black out. Coworkers try to evacuate the students but with no phones and no cars, there's no way to get in touch with parents.

To be horribly honest, I'd stay as long as I felt appropriate, but with every device fried, I would know that it was at *least* an EMP and that the situation at my job is hopeless. I'd leave.

Luckily I work near Express Bus Terminal. I would try my best to raid one of the hiking stores and the grocery store before full realization sets in with other people.

Then I would hitch it across the river to my apartment, get my hiking bag and any other absolute essentials, and go to sleep.

Day 2--
Hopefully I've run into a friend or two in my neighborhood and we can put together some sort of plan for getting out of the city. My choice of destination would be Incheon to steal a boat and head to a fishing village.

Day 3--
After securing a boat--hopefully not by force--we would head out to an island and try to live out a year or two. The sad fact is that it would take about 3 years for most unprepared people to die out. Hopefully in that time frame the cannibalism (yep) and general barbarity would die off and small communities would start to form again. There isn't, frankly, a point in leaving Korea alltogether as China would probably be WAYYYYYYYY the hell worse and you wouldn't have enough gas to make it anywhere else.

[pegasus64128]

[Squire]

What a grim scenario. Well, I suppose I'd do my best to acquire a fishing rod by some means. If I had to live independently I'd stay put because I'm not too far from the coast. There's a lot of rural coastland within walking distance. I could spend my days fishing and at the end of the day trade fish for stuff like vegetables and drinking water. Despite this area having heavy commercial fishing there are fish jumping out of the water everywhere. It could be done... maybe

I suppose I'd end up banding together with foreign friends. In fact I imagine to survive as a foreigner in Korea it would be essential. Perhaps every foreigner here would group together and form a pretty formidable band. No kids or elderly people to look after and for the most part we're all in our primes physically. I expect in an end of the world scenario the Koreans would probably end up killing the foreigners unless we stuck together

[PeteJB]

EMP on the magnitude you are describing would put an end to modern society as we know it. There is no 'happy ending' there. I'd write a book based on that premise but I fear I am seriously out of practice when it comes to writing.

[jdog2050]

[Eedoryeong]

While there are potentially awful scenarios of lawlessness, things would still grow and people know it. I don't think cannibalism would be necessary or even likely.

Much more likely would be that locally-grown foods would become the mainstay diets for those regions, and the farms that accommodate them would have to diversify quickly (instead of dedicated cashcrops). I would think powerful, hyper-protective hierarchies (fiefdoms?) would quickly evolve around farms. We might get back to castle-era wall-building too.

After an indeterminable period of social struggle (could be brief could be long) we'd return to the Korean equivalent of fiefdoms. That would make foreign languages useless quickly, so your band of indomitable foreigners had better be hatching a plan to get on a junkboat back to the west, unless you bring skills in industries related to settling or converting land.

Eventually the Koreans would reinvent (or haul out from the museums) old style printing presses, and machinery to make paper to distribute communiques, edicts, or bulletins. Town criers would become necessary again.

But the zombie apocalypse? Nah. Know Korean, have a real skill, be able to wait out the social restructuring and you'd probably survive. Without all those three things together you'd better know how to sail and use the stars as a compass.

[jdog2050]

[Steelrails]

How's this? Not make the situation worse by trying to go all Grizzly Adams and rounding up people and planning ridiculous scenarios with "Day One" and all of that. No looting, no rioting, no breaking into family mart and hijacking fishing boats. Just scale and ration stuff, share together and come together as a community and cooperate with the authorities in restoring things.

It would be bad, especially in some areas, but its not like people and governments can't get that crap sorted out.

For goodness sakes, what's up with the theft? It's idiot thinking like that that makes everything worse. If you do try and steal from someone in that situation I hope in the "law of the jungle" that exists you get what's coming to you.

Lay off the paranoid sci-fi crack pipe.

[jdog2050]

[Eedoryeong]

[deizio]

[pegasus64128]

[isitts]