Imagine doing that job in Seoul traffic in the 1970s...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Bus conductress update
As I mentioned in this post about bus conductresses, the main character in Yeongja's Heyday, the most popular film of 1975, worked as a bus conductress at one point before losing her arm in an accident. These screenshots should give some idea of how precarious and dangerous the job could be:
Imagine doing that job in Seoul traffic in the 1970s...
Imagine doing that job in Seoul traffic in the 1970s...
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This and its companion posts were interesting reads.
On an early stay in Korea as a teenager in the late 1980s, I encountered what must have been one of the last of the bus conductresses. I think it was outside of Seoul, though, so the bus wasn't all that crowded.
On a trip to Shenzhen, China, around the same time, when it was little more than a dusty backwater of Hong Kong, this position seemed to be the norm, though I don't know if that's still true.
I should go check out that movie if I can.
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