I pass the first burnt-out police station. More will follow. The iron shutters of most stores are lowered. Groups of citizens are standing on the sidewalks. The streets are empty except for occasional bikers.
Police are nowhere in sight.
Nevertheless, one does not get the impression that chaos rules. Market vendors continue to offer fruits and vegetables at little stalls. At the Chonnam Meil Shimmun, one of two local papers, the iron bar gates have been lowered and a few windows are smashed. They didn't report what happened here. The radiantly white-painted building of the provincial administration is undamaged.