With stunning internet connectivity and innumerable intriguing apps to surf on, smartphones are nothing less than an obsession among the current generation.

It may seem impossible to put an end to smartphone addiction as the undivided attention to phone screens has also reportedly added to the increasing number of accidents.

Now, it appears that South Korea is the first nation to come up with a solution. Exhibiting the adage that modern problems need modern solutions, Seoul has installed traffic lights on the ground instead of up on poles. Yes, you read that right.

Already living ahead of its time, the Asian country has come up with this technology to help people who are glued to their phone screens while crossing the roads. In the nation, such people are called Smombies i.e. smartphone obsessed zombies.

The unique technology came to light after Indian industrialist Shrinivas Dempo took to his official Twitter account to share a video of South Korean citizens using the new street lights.

While sharing the video, the businessman wrote in the caption, “Sign of the times: Traffic signals move down to the road level at this crossing in Seoul so that people they call Smombies (smartphone-obsessed zombies) can safely cross the roads while using their smartphones.”

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Fuk, you think this will come to the US? Literally everyone is on their phone. Can't even have a conversation with anyone without them looking at their phone.

yeah im in south korea

those pedestrian lights are on most of the busy intersections

you should see the subway. Literally 80% of ppl are staring into their phones like zombies

Yeah but it's exactly the same everywhere else. I've lived in Vancouver, Waterloo area, and Halifax. It's no different in Western countries, lmao. It just looks more noticeable cause Seoul is crowded as fk.

picture and video of them. helps w/ all the zombies on their phones



https://imgur.com/BKllvZQ

asia is another level. Way worse than the west. They obsessed w/ their phones.

'Mirin at how clean those streets are.... S. Korea and Japan are the only non-White countries that aren't sh/tholes..

cant comment on japan

but not really in korea

lots of trash and ciggy butts everywhere and k girl prostitution posters.

but every morning garbage cleaners come and store cleaners clean the front of thier store.

Seoul/South Korea perfectly demonstrates the dangers of fetishizing modernity/Westernizing at all cost. It's pretty much the same thing in most big cities in China. Just soulless zombies going about, "must escape poverty, must acquire name brand, must get education, must get rich". Abandon all cultures and disregard customs in their mindless pursuit of economic growth.

Would you rather rot in Canada or Seoul for the rest of your life though?

Would Live In Asian Society Over The West Any Day Crew

seoul when I am young to smash K girls (phuck western women)

when I am old I will live in the canadian rockies peacefully.

Everything is so much more convenient in Seoul.

-Make a doctor's appointment the same day and get your results back the next day.
-Food in Korea >> food in Canada
-Public transport is 100x better
-Buy anything you need and have them delivered the next day
-Don't have to deal with White trash or astronauts on a daily basis
-Learn wrestling and boxing from a national-level competitor (I practice MMA, so this is a big merit, lmao)

Imagine how the US would look without our lowest iq inhabitants

Don't forget Singapore, bro.

brb get caned 50 times for spitting gum on the streets.

sure on the convience, saftey

and transport

but

koreans dont make that much money. Nurses top out 47k usd in korea. LOL. min wage is 6 dollars. Also how overpriced the apartments are.

Koreans are the biggest wagecels on earth. Literally work 6 days a week over 40 hours.

Damn, some high end cars there.

Everywhere you go people are looking at their phones i've pretty much given up trying to do anything social. I'm guilty of it also. It's literally hard for me to go more than 20 minutes unless i'm driving somewhere.

I wasnt going to take a pic of the sidewalk but of the cars. I like to take pics of exotic cars.

Most the cars in Korea are white,silver and black for some reason.

Slow night at the gym tonight but one guy was there the whole hour I was working out. When I was warming up he was leaned over those jump on boxes looking at his phone. As I was doing dumbell work he was in a rack on a bench looking at his phone, then moved to a different rack/bench to look at his phone, finally finished by sitting on a machine looking at his phone. I had my earbuds in but the only weights I heard clanging were my own, I don't think the guy lifted a single weight in that hour.

lol
Probably just posting photos of his ‘workout’

Train To Busan and The Wailing are documentaries

Most of the cars in Korea are Hyundais

Makes sense though since Hyundai is one of the biggest corporations like Lotte, LG and Samsung