- 일부번역 시사사진-
Evacuation alerts, sirens cause panic in Seoul after North Korea launch
북한 발사 후, 서울에 대피경보, 사이렌 소리 때문에 서울시민 기절초풍(氣絕초風)
panic- 겁에 질려 어쩔 줄 모르다, 공황 상태에 빠지게 하다
By Ju-min Park and Daewoung Kim
May 31, 202310:49 AM GMT+9Updated 21 min ago
[사진] [1/2] People watch a TV broadcasting a news report on North Korea firing what it called a space satellite toward the south, in Seoul, South Korea, May 31, 2023. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
사람들이 2023년 5월 31일 한국 서울에서 북한이 이른바 우주 위성을 남쪽으로 발사했다는 뉴스를 방송하는 TV를 시청하고 있다.
SEOUL, May 31 (Reuters) - Rare wailing air raid sirens and mobile phone alerts calling for evacuations rattled residents of the South Korean capital, Seoul, early on Wednesday after North Korea launched what it said was a satellite.
North Korea launched the rocket southward, South Korea's military said, prompting emergency alerts and evacuation warnings in parts of South Korea and Japan.
"I was so panicked. Nine-one-one lines were busy and the internet was slow," said Lee Juyeon, 33, a resident in the densely populated city of 9 million who has a 9-month-old child. "So without knowing what was really happening, I was about to head down to a basement wearing a wrap carrier with my baby."
The sirens started in Seoul at 6:32 a.m. (2132 GMT Tuesday) as the city issued a "Presidential Alert" asking citizens to prepare for a potential evacuation.
Then came a second mobile alert minutes later calling for an evacuation, which remained in place for at least 10 minutes until city said it had been sent in error.
Lee did not evacuate after seeing a television headline saying the alerts related to a North Korean space vehicle flying farther south, but she showed photographs of friends packing bags, readying to leave.