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Originally Posted by seoulbrooks
There is no traffic in the Villages worth talking about. Wait until you drive in Seoul, Korea or Tokyo, Japan, then we can have discussions on traffic delays. Blessed we are!
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I was stationed in Korea for 13 months '70-'71. Once we went to the USO Club in downtown Seoul and decided to go to the zoo. We had asked our houseboy how to say, take us to the zoo. We stood out on the curb of a huge square with cars going in every direction, and the cabs were polished and professional looking with drivers wearing black uniforms. Not one cab would stop. We paid a little Korean kid a nickel to get us a cab. When the cab stopped and the kid opened the backdoor, we ran out and jumped in. We told the driver 'take us to the zoo'. He was a little upset, but took off. We knew from our houseboy it was a short trip, maybe 300 yen.
Twenty minutes later as were looking out the back window at the city, and all we see is rice paddies, the cab gets a flat tire. He stops and we get out and the driver starts cussing. We walk up the road to the village and find a typical cab, a beat up Shinjin. The seats have covers over them, sides and doors are dented, the paint is faded, the tires wobble. We say, take us to the zoo. He drives 25 minutes and pulls up to the zoo.
