Plowing up Flowers to Fend off Crowd

  Welcome, spring. The blooming season has arrived in a lot of countries. If it’s normal time without any virus issues, there would have been a lot of spring festivals going on in South Korea as well now. But no matter what if festivals are held or not, the flowers bloom when it’s time and people have a hard time resisting visiting them.


Busan, South Korea 03/24/2020 (Yonhap) 
https://www.yna.co.kr/

  Safe-at-home is recommended in Korea, not ordered. There’s no way the government can force people not to go to crowded places. So what is the decision the local authorities have made?


Canola Flowers, Before & after 04/03/2020 (Samchuk City)
https://www.msn.com/ko-kr/news/opinion/

  The local authorities decided to plow up all the canola flowers to fend off tourists. Yes, It’s really a sad decision. Is this really the only way that can be done? A lot of people are questioning that.

Plowing up canola flowers in Jeju Island 04/08/2020 (Jeju City)
https://news.chosun.com/site/

  It’s really sad that the influx of tourists is the only reason for doing this. And, of course, the spread of Coronavirus has all the blames for this tragic situation.

Plowing up canola flowers in Anseong City 04/10/2020 (News1)
https://www.news1.kr/articles/


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