Korean drivers

People (white people) stereotype korean drivers as bad drivers. It's a stereotype in the US because not all Koreans are bad drivers. But it's a fact in Korea. In fact the real bad Korean drivers in the US are probably ones that grew up in Korea and immigrated later in life.

There is no such thing as yielding to pedestrians here. I was pushing V in her stroller towards the curb to cross the street, and a car was slowly making a turn onto the same street. I continued to cross because I ASSumed that the rules of the road were universal. This car freaking rushed at me. I am pretty sure he accelerated. I squawked like a chicken and skeddadled across to the sidewalk while Jonker made angry alpha male gestures at the car.

Cars park on the sidewalk on the large roads. Where people are. I had to push V's stroller away because a car wanted to park where we were standing. Here you go, asshole.

There are no sidewalks if you are not on the main road. There are large roads the size of highways that criss cross each town. Most of the buildings in the towns are on the little roads that branch off of the large roads. These little roads are squirrely paths that twist and turn. Cars park alongside the paths, leaving just enough room for moving cars to go past. There are no sidewalks at all, which means you have to scoot along, looking behind you to make sure you are not going to get plowed down by a pedal happy motorist. And they have no problem trying to just squeeze past you.

The delivery men are fucking insane. They ride motorcycles that have little metal boxes screwed onto the back that store food, and they don't give a shit who else is on the road. They will run red lights, cut you off, run you over, etc. because THE FOOD MUST BE DELIVERED AS FAST AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE. What the fuck guys. It is just freaking food. I don't think Koreans even tip delivery people. So these drivers are just trying to kill other people for fun. These guys should get recruited for ambulance driving.

U-turns. Jeezus. The large roads are as wide as highways (8 lanes across), but there is no overpass so that cars on one side can get to the other side. Instead, just before the intersections there are u-turn lanes. Cars go into that lane and do a U-ie before the light lets the oncoming traffic zoom on. Ok fine. Except here no one waits their turn. So you have like four cars doing u-turns at the same time, in the same space. It is like insane synchronized swimming, except none of the steps are choreographed, nobody knows what anyone else is doing, and we are talking about fucking cars zooming around with human beings inside of them.

It is amazing that Korea is so full of people, because they should all be dead.

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