26 May 2009
Went into a Korean travel agency in Thailand today to buy an airline ticket. Am heading to Singapore, Philippines, then Pakistan and Afghanistan. The staff at the agency is Korean and their customers are nearly all Korean. The staff looked like zombies. Really out of it. Dumb stares and all. Was very strange because they truly seemed to be in shock.
I sat down quietly -- they mostly ignored my presence -- and finally I brought up the topic of the atomic test. Turns out the atomic bomb on their doorstep is not what they were dumb-stricken about. They completely ignored the nuclear test when I brought up the topic. They were in shock (and said so) about the suicide of the
former President.
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