North Korea Business

So if you're reading this, I'm sure you've read about what's been happening in the past 8 hours between North Korea and South Korea concerning the island of Yeonpyeong (연병도). Don't worry please. This incident will probably not escalate, but in the event that something does happen, I will let you know.

I first found out at 4pm (local time) from my club class students. They asked to use my computer so that they could read what was going on. I wasn't sure what the appropriate thing to do was, so we ended up discussing the issue while making x-mas decorations for my classroom... A strange combination, yes. Though it seemed to calm them down. We discussed the possibility of the two Koreas uniting, and 5 out of the 7 students present expressed their opinion of not wanting it to happen. Their reasoning was that they didn't want South Korea's economy to absorb the poor nation that North Korea is (though they didn't state their thoughts quite like that, but that was the gist of it). Definitely an interesting afternoon... Hopefully things will get taken care of in the least violent way possible....