Foot and Mouth Disease in Korea?!

Today when we were driving to go skiing ( I will post on this later) we were forced to drive through a spray when we got outside of Seoul.

I thought it was a bit strange that they were disinfecting each car driving through and looked it up only to discover that Korea is having a little bout of Foot and Mouth Disease! Who remembers when that was a big deal at home? When you got off an airplane you had to walk on top of a disinfecting mat. Ahhhh, memories.