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[ad_1] South Koreans, used to getting mobile phone alerts warning of earthquakes or Covid outbreaks, received a more unusual notification Monday morning, cautioning of danger from above. South Koreans, used to getting mobile phone alerts warning of earthquakes or Covid outbreaks, received a more unusual notification Monday morning, cautioning of danger from above. The country's Ministry of Science and ICT sent a nationwide alert that “some debris from a falling US satellite may crash near the Korean peninsula” at around lunchtime. “Please be careful when going out during that time.” The ministry subsequently said in a statement that the retired spacecraft — NASA's Earth Radiation Budget Satellite — was “believed to have passed over the Korean Peninsula, and no special damage has ...