Planes and alarms and nobody cares

I woke up at about 11am today. Military airplanes flying far too low for my liking were circling what seemed to be my apartment for a few minutes. Then the alarm goes off. Not my alarm clock but the alarm that is probably in every neighbourhood of every city and town in Korea. The alarm that sounds like the four minute warning you hear in those films about World War II or when their is a nuclear strike. Of course, nothing happened. The alarm goes off many times (tests or drills) and no Korean here ever bats an eyelid despite the tension on the peninsula. And neither do I but it's something I won't miss when I go back home.

Something in the air

Am I imagining things or have the last few weeks been a cacophony of noise in the mornings? The novelty of change has become the sad inevitability of planes flying overhead virtually every morning out here in Daegu. In about three and a half years here, the last few weeks have been vastly different from previous times. I don't know what is going on. Has there been a new air base developed? I don't know the answer but I cannot help get the feeling that someone is preparing for something. Daegu has an airport and I can safely say that the noise is not coming from commercial airline flights. I wonder if this is happening just in Daegu or other parts of Korea.