This week in Gyeonggi Englsih Village we were teaching middle school students. I arrrived at work this morning and found out that they are all going home because they would "feel safer" there (they are all from a city south of Seoul). Our "head teachers" were at pains to tell us "not that they ARE safer at home, but that they FEEL safer." The parents and schools of the children are no doubt behind this, and it's understandable.
I'd feel safer south of Seoul, too.