June 21 2009
Incheon Nothing too interesting, just another stray and a theatre I've been trying to get more information on. |
June 18 2009
Pajang-dong This is across the street from where I went drinking with Andre. |
June 13 2009
Airport Island I followed Jim out to Airport Island intending to visit an abandoned sea village, but got stuck on the opposite end of the island at a beach party. It was a good time and I played some steel-toed beach soccer (before I nearly crippled one of the other players), then we barbecued a ton of meat and watched the sun set and the coast guard doing doughnuts in a hovercraft. |
June 11 2009
Naeson-Dong, Uiwang These photos are sort of an update on some old ones I took back when I started working here. The highrises are closer to completion after about nine months. Actually, it's taking more time than I would've expected. |
May 21 2009
Cats I took a few photos before we left for Incheon, in case I needed pictures with me of Millie and Buster. |
May 26 2009
Couch Cat The cats have systematically made a hole in the bottom of our couch through which they can crawl. Sometimes if Millie goes missing, we search everywhere until we remember this, and sure enough she's hiding inside. |
May 21 2009
Buster's Third Birthday Twice a year, the cats inexplicably get an extra large helping of supper. This time unfortunately we forgot sparklers, but the university next door was having some sort of festival and happened to set off some fireworks at almost the exact right time, terrifying the cats. |
May 20 2009
Stray Cat While out drinking with Andre, I saw this stray cat lurking around. I went over and he seemed friendly, so I hurried off and bought another tin of tuna. This guy was pretty healthy and much older than the last one. |
May 17 2009
Lazy Sunday We lied around in bed with the cats, and then went out for a walk and found a nice looking Buddhist temple. |
May 15 2009
Pajang Market Here are a couple things I saw on my daily commute. In order to transfer buses, I have to walk throught he busy market in Pajang-dong. |
May 3 2009
Yeosu There was sort of a long weekend so we decided to take a trip down south. There were several places we wanted to visit, the first being Yeosu in the far south, where my uncle worked as a teacher in 1996. I spent about three weeks visiting him in August, the absolute hottest time of the year. My memories of that trip are highlighted by too much seafood, hunger, and hideously humid weather. Returning in May and knowing what kind of Korean food I like were both very good.
An additional interesting point about this visit was that I saw many of the rides I visit at abandoned parks, only in working (hypothetically) condition.
We also found two very large concrete silos (one pair each) along the water. I'm not sure what they were used for but they're not doing it anymore.
It's changed a lot since 1996 but I saw one or two familiar sights. This cow pictured here was the highlight of the video I made of Korea 1996 when I filmed my sister and cousins riding on it. The supermarket's closed now though. |
May 4 2009
Yocheon I woke up early in the morning and took a few photos on the rooftop. Probably most of the buildings you can see weren't here last time. My memory is hazy of Yeosu but I remember one of the roads and the basic layout of the center of the city. A lot of other things such as all the hotels seem totally new.
There's still a lot more to see but we didn't have as much time as we would've liked.
Anyway, this was enough to not only get the city to reverse its decision, but to declare Dongpirang a historically valuable site. Apparently the plan is to renovate the homes to improve conditions, and they have some sort of system worked out that as the elderly residents die, they will be replaced by artists in order to make a true artistic community. A very strange little area, and probably the happiest ending any condemned neighbourhood could ever hope for. Provided they don't mind an endless parade of tourists coming through and taking photos.
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May 5 2009
Last Day On the last day, we went back to Dongpirang, and also crossed under the ocean in an underwater pedestrian tunnel. There's a lot more to do in Tongyeong and I hope to return there again soon. |
May 9 2009
Undisclosed Location Here are some photos from an undisclosed location that may or may not be underneath a claw machine. |
April 18 2009
Suwon by Day On Saturday Jung was sick so I went out on a walk alone and took photos of some of the massive apartment complexes around my area. Most of them are considerably older than my own, and their bare concrete design has recently been deemed officially unaesthetic. I wonder if they weren't originally designed like that with the intention that someday in the foreseeable future their clunky appearance would be used to justify their replacement. I also visited a cat who lives in an alley behind a building. This cat is tied up on a leash and has his own doghouse and some plastic grating that I think is intended as a very cheap toilet. On two visits so far, I've shown up to find stuff moved around in what appears to be a deliberate attempt to mess with him. We try to visit him when we can. He's a jumpy cat but can be quite friendly. This visit, he rolled around on his back and bit my hand very lightly.
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April 12 2009
Cats Just a few photos of cats and one on the way to work. |
March 29 2009
Inlaw visit Jung's parents, sister, and brother-in-law came over for the afternoon for lunch and home baking. |
March 19 2009
Random Photos Photos of some of the farmland I pass by every day, and the cats practicing their synchronised sleeping routine. |
March 14 2009
Housewarming Unfortunately this was our second attempt at having a housewarming, so a lot of people who showed up at the last one, when we didn't actually go to the apartment, didn't show up again. Actually, come to think of it, there was no overlap. Anyway, Jung made hot dogs and nachos, and then we went up to the rooftop, then to Hwaseong Fortress, then a restaurant on the mountain side, and then I think another restaurant, and then half of the people left and four of us went back to the apartment to keep drinking. |
March 8 2009
Department Store Just a couple photos taken on an escalator. |
March 1 2009
Hwaseong Fortress I went out to Hwaseong Fortress and had a look around at some parts I'd never visited before. My coworker John met me and we shot some arrows and rode the trolley partway up the mountain. |
March 1 2009
Apartment Just a few long-awaited photos of the apartment. |
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