Winchester on the Korean street

I've been reading Simon Winchester's book Korea: A Walk through the Land of Miracles and he includes many amusing observations including this one:

"It might perhaps seem, in view of their immense hospitality, rather churlish to remark critically on Koreans' driving. But my strong impression then on the road to Kwangju - and it was an impression that didn't alter very much en route - was that the Korean driver is a very dangerous animal indeed, a beast totally without understanding of speed, pathologically incapable of steering, utterly ignorant of the width of his vehicle, and eternally forgetful of such luxuries as the brakes and mirrors with which his car is invariably equipped. He knows only one device, and this is the horn, on which he seems to spend most of his time sitting, if not standing."

There's a kernel of truth in there, especially about the horn, but maybe they've mellowed out a bit since the mid 1980s.