Civil defense training

 Today, on 14th of March, there was siren ringing all over the cities in Korea. All the traffic stopped, and there were police officers everywhere. Is the war happening? Maybe the invasion of North Korea? No, it was just civil defense training. To Koreans this is just a thing that happens sometimes in a day. So if this happens, everyone is just indifferent. But if you are a foreigner and didn't know about this, or never heard about it before, you may freak out. Calm down and just stay in the place you were. If you were outside just go where you were planning to.

Because Korea is a country where potentially war can happen, this kind of training is necessary. Sadly but this still go along all around Korea. Why? Because we have to prepare if there will be and attack from the North. Although this training became very formal to Koreans, people think this is important for the possibilities of war.

 Even it has been over 50 years since the Korea war ended, Koreans still have to worry and live a life that has to fear about the war that can happen. The training is only for about 20 minutes but it reminds us the war that killed many of our families and friends long ago. The more we sorrow about it is that we had to fight with our nations. Hope there will be a day that we don't have to worry about the war or the conflict between the North and South. Hope that the day we can live in peace and happiness can come soon in this world, land that we live in.

Reference: http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&mid=sec&sid1=004&oid=416&aid=0000072637