{"id":129533,"date":"2021-10-26T05:22:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-street-in-south-korea-lights-up-at-a-pedestrian-crossing-so-people-can-keep-staring-at-their-phones"},"modified":"2021-10-26T05:22:56","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T12:22:56","slug":"this-street-in-south-korea-lights-up-at-a-pedestrian-crossing-so-people-can-keep-staring-at-their-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/this-street-in-south-korea-lights-up-at-a-pedestrian-crossing-so-people-can-keep-staring-at-their-phones","title":{"rendered":"This Street In South Korea Lights Up At A Pedestrian Crossing \u2014 So People Can Keep Staring At Their Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-street-in-south-korea-lights-up-at-a-pedestrian-crossing-so-people-can-keep-staring-at-their-phones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Korea has created an intriguing device that allows its citizens to continue staring at their phones while crossing the road safely, but the notion has not received many likes.<\/p>\n<p>On October 11 TikTok footage from a Seoul crossroads showed green and red lights illuminating the curbs, indicating when it\u2019s safe to cross the road, even if you\u2019re staring at your phone screen.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/naturalkorean\">@naturalkorean<\/a> has published a TikTok video of the lights eliciting a fairly mixed bag of reactions. Theoretically speaking, it is a great idea to protect people too absorbed in social media to notice their surroundings; however, this type of reckless behaviour should not be encouraged. The video shows a swarm of \u2018smombies\u2019 or \u2018smart phone-obsessed zombies\u2019 who are glued to their phones as they cross a major downtown street. The scene made me nervous, even as someone who has run into strangers when smombie-ing around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea has created an intriguing device that allows its citizens to continue staring at their phones while crossing the road safely, but the notion has not received many likes. On October 11 TikTok footage from a Seoul crossroads showed green and red lights illuminating the curbs, indicating when it\u2019s safe to cross the road, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}