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🗓️ 24 April 2025
⏱️ 104 minutes
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0:00.0 | It looks like a hot air balloon, but it's so much smaller. |
0:06.6 | And it doesn't come in those fun rainbow colors. |
0:09.5 | It's just a giant white balloon with a big black bag attached at the bottom, just drifting into the air. |
0:17.1 | People are standing outside. |
0:18.6 | They're covering their eyes from the sun, but also they're trying to get a good look at this thing. |
0:22.6 | What is this thing? |
0:23.9 | It's so anticlimactic. |
0:26.2 | It's slow. |
0:27.1 | The balloon is slow, but it's coming down. |
0:30.0 | And it's also so random. |
0:31.8 | Like, what is this giant balloon? |
0:33.6 | And it's not just one. |
0:35.6 | Over the span of five months, thousands of balloons, 5,500 giant balloons |
0:42.1 | just keep mysteriously floating in the air in different parts of the country of South Korea. |
0:48.4 | How big are they? |
0:49.6 | I would say, it could probably fit two, three people in a balloon. |
0:54.3 | Oh, it's big. |
0:55.4 | Yeah. |
0:55.7 | In the beginning, there was panic. |
0:57.8 | I mean, some regions had to shut down the airspace. |
0:59.9 | They delayed all flights. |
1:01.2 | Some regions, the mysterious balloons, they start triggering these air raid alerts. |
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