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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...
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1 comment:

  1. kushiboNovember 27, 2011 at 4:21:00 AM GMT+9

    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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