![]() ![]() South Korea has a "first-class shelter system for the military", he said, but "the civilian side lags far behind". This has Lee, a mild-mannered professor at Semyung University, concerned. In the 1970s, the country had a law requiring buildings over a certain size in major cities to have a basement, which would serve as a bunker in war.īut in Seoul, due to soaring property prices, most private buildings have converted those basements into parking space or the dank subterranean flats made famous by Oscar-winning movie "Parasite". Lee says most South Korean civilians are not prepared for an attack Anthony WALLACE AFP Since the Korean War ended in 1953 with an armistice rather than a peace treaty, Seoul has remained technically at war with Pyongyang, and both sides routinely accuse each other of "provocations" that could tip them back into open conflict. ![]() There's a lack of public shelters and in many cases they're far away," he added. "South Koreans have not been required to build personal shelters for ages. ![]() He said he was also extremely concerned about a Fukushima-style meltdown at one of South Korea's ageing nuclear reactors. "Just 100 kilometres away from here we have North Korea, from which biological or nuclear missiles could fly," Lee told AFP. With thick concrete walls, steel-reinforced doors and an air purification system, Lee says his shelter, buried under a metre (three feet) of earth, could keep him safe from a nuclear disaster and withstand a direct hit from a conventional missile.īuilt on his property in Jecheon city about 75 miles (120 kilometres) southeast of the capital Seoul, the government-funded bunker is part of a campaign by Lee to get South Koreans to take preparations for a nuclear fallout more seriously. ![]()
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