Sleep Forever: The Morbid Road Signs in S. Korea

I love driving through the Gyeongbu Highway, cruising the five or so hours from Seoul down to Busan. There are plenty of rest stops, gas stations and stretches of rice fields encased by the mountains. At this time of the year, the rice fields are emerald green, with spots of yellow beginning to appear, a few months shy of harvest. But what I love the most are the morbid road signs: warning signs against drowsy driving. It’s almost like black comedy; some signs are so blatantly grim that I wonde