Snowfall in Korea

Since it snowed today for the first time this year, i thought it might be a good idea to tell you about the snow in Korea.
Last year, an unfortunate coincidence resulted in me coming back from Europe to Seoul on the very same day that the whole city got paralyzed by a heavy snowfall. There were no people in the streets, and absolutely no traffic, everything was swamped under piles of snow. The bus from the airport, the only moving object out there, was slowly elbowing its way through the empty streets. It wasn't the end of the world, but it seemed damn close.
To me, the snowfall wasn't worse than any other snowfall one experiences each winter in the northern parts of Germany or Poland, but in Korea it seemed like the end of the world. Admittedly, if an equal amount of snow fell on Rome, the reaction would be probably similar to the Korean one. In fact, the really bizarre part comes now:
In the days after the snowfall no snowploughs cleared the streets, no floods of saltwater poisoned the ground, nothing. People used brooms and shovels to sweep some parts of the sidewalks, but not all, so that bruises and broken bones became a part of everyday life. Cars crawled through the white streets pushing the snow to the sides. In result, brown snow was piling along the sidewalks, and when the sun came out people started to throw the snow back on the streets, so that cars would crush it and the warm sunlight melt it. This process lasted for days: people would shovel the snow on the streets, cars would crush it, and the sun would melt it. There was water everywhere, water that in the night turned to ice...
I was once told by a Korean, that Koreans make the best shoes in the whole world; I would add to that, that they also make the very finest ice-skating-rings for cars I have ever seen.