An Emergency Alert Text Is Making Olympians Freak The Shit Out In S. Korea

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February 8, 2018

I hope you bitches are ready for some GOD DAMN MOTHERFUCKING CURLING ’cause the 2018 Winter Olympics (or the Winties as they’re known) are kicking off tomorrow in Pyeongchang, South Korea, but even before the first curling stone has hit the curling sheet towards the curling house, there’s already some mad drama afoot.

FKN YEEESSSSSSSSSS

Said drama comes in the form of this emergency alert text that hit every single phone in the region earlier today:

Emergency alert in PyeongChang received simultaneously on every phone in the media centre. I hope I won’t be spending my last moments quilling this snowboarding feature. Translation? pic.twitter.com/EeygzI7Rq0

— James Toney (@jtoneysbeat) February 8, 2018

Ohhhh shit, this thing again hey?

The message was in fact alerting recipients to a fire in a neighbouring building, but due to the perfect storm of a) it being in Korean, b) the recent Hawaii missile scare and c) being literally kilometres from the border to the world’s most dangerous military power, foreign visitors in the Olympic media centre had a teeny bit of a pants-shit.

OK, who else just got an emergency alert on the phone in Korean? Just me?

— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) February 8, 2018

What does “this is not a drill” in Korean look like?

— Tom Harrington (@cbctom) February 8, 2018

Is this test? Heard an alarm and many received this emergency alert SMS in #PyeongChang #alert pic.twitter.com/O7CuFHiYu4

— Cheryl Brown (@downtowncbrown) February 8, 2018

Tfw feeling when you get an emergency alert on your iPhone in South Korea but it’s written and Korean so you have no idea what it says 😬

— Lauren (@LaurzLaubz) February 8, 2018

So all’s well that end’s well! Unless you’re the South Korean who owned the building site that was, you know…. on fire.