A brief note on Japan

For those who have asked: neither the earthquake, nor the subsequent tidal wave, nor the radiation leaking from Fukushima have affected Korea. I was at work when the earthquake struck off Japan's coast at 2:45pm local time on Friday, and - like the rest of Korea - felt nothing. I didn't learn about the quake and tsunami until about 6 hours after the fact. At this point, the situation at the nuclear facilities in Fukushima is something that the entire region is following closely. However, given the prevailing wind patterns, even were Fukushima to become the next Chernobyl, chances of Korea playin Belarus to Japan's Ukraine are fairly low. I will, of course, update if anything changes.