Day 41: Death Awaits Us All

Ah yes, the scooter/ motorbike/ motorcycle. There is really nothing unique about its Korean equivalent, besides the fact that almost all delivery of fast food/ take-out is delivered with said scooter/ motorbike/ motorcycle. You think that you can get anything delivered to your door in America? Psh, America has nothing on Korea. Sure, you can get pizza and fried chicken delivered, but how about McDonalds? Japanese food? Korean food? Indian food? Most places these days deliver, and if they don't, they are too fancy for most people. But I take this time not just to talk about delivery culture in Korea, which surprised me, but the actual means of delivery: the scooter/ motorbike/ motorcycle. The one to the left is your standard delivery device, fixed with a little compartment to store the food while riding the device. Mostly you see two types of people on these things: young boys or old men. The young boys either have themselves a little part time job, or quit school and are bums. The old men probably have a stake in the shop that is delivering. The problem, which is to address an even larger problem in Korea, is the reckless driving. You think other places have it bad, sweetie you ain't seen nothing until you've seen or experienced Korean driving. These scooter/motorbike/ motorcycles obey no traffic laws, as if traffic laws even existed in Korea, and swerve i n and out of traffic, up on sidewalks, running red lights, nearly killing pedestrians (who NEVER have the right-away), and basically do everything possible to put themselves in harms way every chance they get. Should we be surprised? Of course not. This is the same country that only recently declared that cars should get out of the way for ambulances and fire trucks, which they still don't do. So either Koreans don't know how to properly drive, or they are the best drivers in the world. I personally think it's the former rather than the latter.