Quarantine Day 15: The Last Day

Today is my last day in quarantine. Curious what the Korea I will meet tomorrow has been up to, I decided to translate one of my government alerts.

I haven't been bothering lately because it's a hassle to screenshot them, upload the image to my laptop, run it through OCR, and then paste it into a translator, which is the only way I can figure out what they say. I've tried retyping the hangul characters by hand, but Korean is agglutinative so you have to figure out which strokes to type in which order, and without any knowledge of the grammar you can get stuck on a single block for a while.

This one said:

"Central Election Management Committee 4.15. When you go to vote on the election day of the National Assembly, be sure to bring a mask and identification card and practice distance from other electors."

According to The Korea Herald, my first day of freedom is coincidentally also the day of the world's first pandemic election.

James mentioned he would be off work for a national holiday when we arranged to meet for dinner, but it hadn't occurred to me to ask why. I wonder if he's going to vote. I'll be staying far away from the polls, heading to Hongdae to check into my new Airbnb and finally getting to do some laundry.