Lovebugs swarm South Korea's cities. hiking trails

LOVEBUGS - so named for how the male and female cling together as they mate in flight - are swarming South Korea.

- THE WASHINGTON POST

They can be seen in the hilltops that dot South Korea’s bustling cities. They’re on the windows of high-rise office buildings. They’re on sidewalks, inside convenience stores, on hiking trails and all over city streetlights. They’re everywhere.

The bugs are harmless, but they are becoming increasingly annoying to the country’s more than 50 million residents.

“I thought it was the apocalypse,” said Kim Jaewoong, a 36-year-old welder who ran into a swarm of these bugs last week on Gyeyangsan, a small mountain in the port city of Incheon, an hour drive west of Seoul.