On The Road!

I've shared with my friends the confusions and difficulties I have with driving on the roads here. Not only am I driving on the right hand side of the road for the first time, but I'm sharing the road with a nation of drivers that the British government warn about on the 'Foreign and Commonwealth' travel information website. The opening line being, "The ROK has one of the highest rates of traffic death in the world"! (but they do warn about every country in the world in some respect) and if that wasn't bad enough, I actually share the pavement with them too, "You should watch out for motorcycles traveling at speed on pavements." Quoted from the same website.

My confusions rise because here, we can turn right on a red light, but can't turn left on a green light! This is new to me. It appears that nobody else's indicators work, but their hazards lights are fine and used frequently, especially when cutting me off, driving at ridiculous speeds, going through redlights or just weaving in and out of the traffic. It's almost like it's a way to apologize for really bad driving. Just stick the hazards on and everything will be fine!!!! Motorcyclists ride like it's a computer game, and nobody lets emergency service transport past them, even with their sirens blaring. My difficulties are keeping my cool on the road with this to contend with. My friend Dawn drives "with one hand on the horn and one hand giving the finger!" It's testing times.