Korean Fire Drill...November

Korean Fire drill-

 I remember seeing on Facebook a little while ago my friends commenting on the inefficiency of fire safety at their schools.  I thought yeah i can see that.  The Korean education system can be very illogical to me.  These kids score amazing on tests and study constantly but there are plenty of holes in this system, and thats kind of how i felt about this fire drill.  The best way to describe this drill was comical.  In America our fire drills are pretty low key, now we spend more time focusing on shooter drills, as sad as this is.  The teachers find out about it ahead of time, kids file outside, we count them, and then the bell rings and we head back in.  In Korea, everyone finds out ahead of time, including the students.  This drill was complete with smoke bomb and real fire.  A tiny little alarm goes off and each teacher reports for their duties, including saving documents and yelling fire.  Students then run out of the building…yes RUN.  In the window was a smoke can where purple smoked poured into the stairwell.  Students ran out, some of them choking.  When we got outside some of the teachers lit a box on fire.  Teachers threw on hard hats and continued to direct students.  Two teachers then tried to put the box fire out with fire extinguishers.  A fire marshal and truck then arrived.  People were snapping pictures everywhere.  teachers also grabbed a hose and put out the smoke bomb in the window.  The truck then pulled up and fully extinguished this window fire as students started to cheer.  While the teachers were trying to put the box fire out clouds of smoke forced the students to abandon their lines and push farther away from the school.  The drill finished when a crew of students came out of the building with a fellow student on a stretcher.  The fire marshal then gave a talk to the students, and then to the teachers.  Then we continued to go on about of day.  So though this drill was much more detailed then america, the whole thing felt more for show.  Students were TOLD to run, to laugh, and they knew well in advance this would happen.  I don’t know which country does it better, but it was definitely interesting.