Terror in Korea

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I pray for those whose families have died in all terrorist events throughout modern history.
Anyways, to those Korean-learners who were wondering if Korea is a terrorist hotspot, here's some things about terrorism in Korea.

{North Korea}
Living is just terror. Rely on your families for happiness. (For the commoners)
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Qantas Boeing 707, similar to the plane that was crashed
by North Koreans. The picture of that plane is really rare.
I just can't find it. (CC/Wikipedia Phillip Capper)

{South Korea}
The Republic of Korea had 30 or less terrorism events in their soil since the 1960's, if you count terrorist events that happened outside of South Korean territory that involved a Korean citizen as one of the casualties.
In the East Asian nation where even guns are rare to civilians except for shooting arenas, counter-terrorism acts are getting strict by the year. Why?

1982, when curfew abolishment
 was put into action (In Seoul).
(Instiz.net)

Simple answer: North Koreans.
Since the 50's, the North Korean government wanted to terrorize the South Koreans. They used their special forces to supply many terror attacks in South Korea, such as the Korean Air plane crash in the 80's, a secret deployment of spies and a battle that lasted for more than 40 days in the 90's, explosion of a Korean military vessel and invasion of a civilian-living island in the late 2000's. This was why "President" Park Jung Hee enforced the "야간통행금지" (통금 for short, Curfew at night) Rule, which prohibited movement from Midnight 'till 4 in the morning; to fill the streets with soldiers looking for North Korean spies. The curfew was lifted in every South Korean territory in the first day of 1988. More about the Korean curfew law in a future post.

Anyways... where was I? Even the night curfew was abolished and no terrorist events happened in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the Republic of Korea strengthened its counter-terrorism laws, in which was strengthened again in the 2000's, when 9/11 exploded in New York, and at the other side of the world, the Seoul Olympics were coming up. 

However, the risks and possibility that there might be a major terrorist attack in Seoul (By international or national religious terrorists) have increased. Seoul is the second largest city/metropolitan area in the world, in terms of population. Besides, the Korean National Intelligence Service (KNIS) has reported that Al-Qaeda members have entered the nation at least twice. To a nation with only 40,000 ethnic Korean muslims (And more than 10 times population of Middle East migrant workers), that is a shock. Actually, to a country that used to have a majority no-religion population until recently, and to their people whom see signs of random radical protestant churches and them destroying Buddhist architecture, that may not be surprising. (Click Here for more.)
But we are still reminded that the Korean military is one of the most technologically developed armies (Hint: Samsung+LG+Kia+Hyundai), and the 7th largest in the world... next to France. We've seen that fall. (Besides, 9/11?)

ROKCDC Logo. Know where this is
when you're visitng South Korea.  ⓒROKCDC Homepage

But many people haven't heard about "민방위", or the Republic of Korea Civil Defense Corps (ROKCDC). It's something all men are trained to do, and 6.86 million people are learned what to do in a case of emergency, for example, a North Korean invasion. (In which even schoolchildren are often trained). So basically, with many people knowing where to go and what to do, Korea basically is prepared for minimum casualties during an attack. 

Well, that's it about terrorism in Korea. Remember, wherever you are, be vigilant for a terrorist attack. Even in North Korea. 

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