Fred's Fun Fact: They do What in South Korea?!

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:13):
I've never heard of anything like this before. But let's
go to South Korea? Shall we come? Right? Okay? Expect
aircraft were forbidden from taking off or landing for thirty
five minutes nationwide in South Korea last Thursday, as more
than a half a million students took an all important
college entrance exam. So this is so serious for the

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country that there could be no noise in the skies.
So from one five to one, all domestic and international
flights excluding emergencies, were barred from departing or landing at airports.
This restriction ensured students would not be disturbed during the
English listening section of the exam. I guess this is
something that everybody has to take in Korea. Students taking

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exams in mathematics, English, and some chosen subjects including nationals,
natural science, social studies in other four languages. Five hundred
and twenty two thousand test takers at twelve hundred sites nationwide.
But they said, you know what, no airplanes in the air. Wow,
So that nobody could be distracted. It would take a
lot more than that not to distract me, right, no
sudden movements, so it smells like something's burning in here,

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but it's not. It's just Paulina's hair straighten Earth because
apparently this is not only a radio station but a
beauty salon as well. Hey man, I gotta do both,
okay at the same time. Come on, that's you know
what I mean. You don't have to, you know, But
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