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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Drivers Ignore School Safety Zones
Among the 30 member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Korea had the highest number of child pedestrians killed in traffic accidents in 2004.... In a recent survey of 500 car-owners in Seoul, conducted by the civic group Coalition for Transportation Culture, about 76 percent said they did not have exact knowledge about speed limits around school zones. About 16 percent of respondents said they had "never heard of" a school zone.
By Kim Tong-hyung, Korea Times (May 4, 2006)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200605/kt2006050416323810510.htm

cruisemonkey · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 9:16 am Post subject:

Welcome to K-land... "I can do anything I want if I drive a big black car. I'm important and will speed, make illegal turns, run lights, constantly lean on the horn, and run with my emergency flashers on."

It's not as if the twenty-year-old cops in this Confuscian society would would have enough balls to do anything. They're sleeping in their car with the lights flashing. Rolling Eyes

cruisemonkey · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 9:22 am Post subject:

P. S.
It's worse in China and Viet Nam.

kathycanuck · Joined: 05 Dec 2005 Location: Namyangju

I wait for the bus at an intersection in a school zone. In one twenty-minute period I saw a city bus, a hagwon van and two cars run the red light. Unbelievable.

gypsyfish · Joined: 17 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

This is news?

Demophobe · Joined: 17 May 2004

It's even worse in the country.

Dumptrucks, big heavy-loaders....everyone, really just charges through country lights and school zones.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

I know Koreans are bad drivers but this just isn't a problem in Korea but it is worldwide.....people do speed in school zones.

In my hometown in Australia 2 kiddies got killed in 5 years in the school zone by speeding drivers...

The difference between Korea and the west however is in the west they do seem to be blitzing school zones and are getting very strict. I could never imagine it being enforced here.......

ajuma · Joined: 18 Feb 2003 Location: Anywere but Seoul!!

Today I went for a walk on campus...and I saw 2 fathers letting their kids drive!! (Said kids being about 5 and 10 years old). Rolling Eyes

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I liked the line about the police not actually enforcing these fancy laws. Really?