The whole world on edge and yet no one is even talking about it....

I've gotten so many messages from friends and family this past week worried about the current situation on the Korean peninsula. The North has said it is no longer bound by the armistice and is threatening war. The whole world is scared except for South Korea. Headlines in the JoongAng Daily and the Korean Herald (two of the three major English newspapers here) tell about the funeral of ex-president Roh Moo Hyun. Only in the secondary headlines do you see anything about North Korea. South Koreans are so blasé about the entire situation, it's not even conversation worthy. I don't think anyone is stockpiling food and money in case of an emergency or anything that you would expect of a country that the rest of the world thinks is on the brink of war. Life just goes on as normal here. I used to get so frightened every time North Korea would start it's rhetoric, but I'm starting to understand the South Korean mentality towards the North. This sort of talk is so normal that it's really not even worth talking about. Nothing has happened in 50 years, so why should we think something will happen tomorrow? Anyway, I hope the South Korean mentality is the right idea to have right now... because the way everyone at home is talking, this could be more serious than before....