On October 15th 2009, there were reports about North Korea invading South Korean seas. This sent shock waves to most of the foreigners, especially when there were air drills around Busan. I too became concerned so I looked it up on the net and found an article on Yahoo! that gave some details. That evening my friend Caroline (Cat) came over and we began chatting about the North’s raid just as we started talking we heard loud bangs that sent shivers down my spine. The sound got louder but we both figured that they are probably the sound of fireworks and that if it was really a raid we would hear sirens; so we brushed it off. At that very moment we heard sirens in my area...Coincidence?! I think not. However, the sirens belonged to an ambulance seeing as there is a hospital close to my street and the loud bangs were in fact fireworks because it was the end of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). Cat and I were somewhat relieved and continued chatting about arbitrary things when a blue light shone bright into my living room. We both froze in total shock and tried to come up with a suitable explanation for the light...our conclusion was that it had to be a UFO; Korea is dynamic so anything is possible. A few minutes later the light dimmed and I was able to see that it belonged to a man in the building across from mine...he was hanging up squid on the roof. Cat and I burst into laughter to after realising how silly and paranoid we were.
This is just one of the many precious moments I have been fortunate to have in SoKo.
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