Most people think snow is very romantic because movie directors make snow a very lovely condition when a man and woman fall in love. One of the most famous examples for Koreans is “Love Letter” from Japan. In the movie, a woman screams out “Oganggi Deska?(How are you doing?)” to her ex-boyfriend. In that scene, snow makes the situation more plaintive and sorrowful. Because of that kind of movie, many people think snow is very romantic and dramatic. However, what Koreans thought about snow changed after a terrible blizzard in the winter 2 years ago. Actually, many people could be curious whether snowfall can be disaster or not. However, I am going to tell you why Korean people think tremendous snowfall is very dangerous and can be a disaster; need of equipment, inexperienced handling and negative effects of farming.
In Korea, there was so much horrible snow 2 years ago. Also, we had gotten tremendous snowfall at least five times during the winter. Traditionally, Koreans had never had that much snow, so we did not have an ability to cope with it and enough snowplows to get rid of snow from places where people lived at that time. Overall, I can say that the the winter was like a war. When Koreans had heavy snow, I also got that much snow in Minnesota in the same winter. Snow in Minnesota can be more than in Korea, but I was not able to believe because after a few hours, highways and streets were all cleaned up as if it had not snowed at all. Even though my friends and family told me that it is too inconvenient, I did not feel inconvenience.
On the other hand, most Koreans could not go to work or schools because the Korean government did not have an ability to clean up in a short time. Many people took buses or subways instead of their cars. Especially, the number of people who want to take the subways exceeded the number of that could be admitted. Therefore, that produced other accidents like a pyramid. Some actors and actresses had no choice and also took buses or subways covering their faces with hats and masks in order to remain unrecognized. Several schools were closed for several days temporarily. During that time, even though a cause is just snow, we got many different kinds of results.
In part of farming, farmers had more trouble than they could have imagined. Especially, in the last year, the temperature was lower than before and the amount of sunshine was insufficient, so yield was reduced by about 20 percent. Until now, I have written about damages of people’s lives not from nature. However, this paragraph is about destroying the nature by nature.
Personally, when it snowed snow in Korea, I usually enjoyed it, but my friends called me and said that they are sick and tired of snow and are being tardy for a few days. The snow is not amount of being able to enjoy, but menacing us and making us rough it. Snow was not a welcome guest for us anymore. From the tremendous snowfall, I got mottos for myself. One of them is “Do not delay and be tardy.” That is when I can prepare something unexpected, prepare and grow an ability to handle something. For example, in Japan, traditionally there has been be a lot of earthquakes, but they are prepared for unexpected earthquakes. Therefore, though they would get earthquakes suddenly, these will be not catastrophic disaster. The other motto is limitation. Nothing should be over limit and everything has to be good enough. There is a famous proverb in Korea. That is “Too many good things are not an advantage, but just a disadvantage. There will be nothing good if it is excessive. Of course, it is like the snowfall, but good things are in the same way for example, going on diet, love for children and so on. Everything belongs to the ideas. I think the snowfall gave lessons to Koreans who never prepared to something in the future.