Just some images of the architecture in the area I live. The one above is a golfing cage set straight in the middle of the city. When I first walked by the netting with the tall steel borders I thought it was under construction - but no. It's a golfing cage for the city golfers who want to practice there swing, and the netting catches all balls - so it won't hit the many buildings and sky scrapers nearby. See South Korea, as I can plainly see is a country that doesn't sprawl outwards, like in the U.S., but builds up. Everything is very compactly put together and I have yet to see any evidence of suburbs, instead the whole population in the cities live in apartments (though granted my experience is extremely limited thus far). Anyway as they say, they have many people and a small land mass area. It makes sense
This is a rather beautiful landscape from the top floor of the parking garage at the local hospital. Aparently hiking and climbing are passions of many Koreans...as is - fun fact- baseball. Koreans love climbing and baseball, and I gather, they are rather good at both. In anycase with landscape like this its not hard to imagine why many people take up hiking.
Just I thought a fun picture of the grocery store. Thats my cart I'm holding, the grocery store is on the bottom floor of the GS Mart, sort of a Walmart of Korea, as I'm finding out. Anyway all the shopping carts have little "grippies" on the bottom which stick tight when you are riding one of these escalator/moving walkway "thingies" up or downstairs.
Just a street view of the intersection that you come too when walking away from my school
And this is a view of the street my school is on. Pretty neat eh? I'm definately smack dab in the middle of a city of 3.5 million people. It's a new experience and its really working thus far.
Just some images of the architecture in the area I live. The one above is a golfing cage set straight in the middle of the city. When I first walked by the netting with the tall steel borders I thought it was under construction - but no. It's a golfing cage for the city golfers who want to practice there swing, and the netting catches all balls - so it won't hit the many buildings and sky scrapers nearby. See South Korea, as I can plainly see is a country that doesn't sprawl outwards, like in the U.S., but builds up. Everything is very compactly put together and I have yet to see any evidence of suburbs, instead the whole population in the cities live in apartments (though granted my experience is extremely limited thus far). Anyway as they say, they have many people and a small land mass area. It makes sense
This is a rather beautiful landscape from the top floor of the parking garage at the local hospital. Aparently hiking and climbing are passions of many Koreans...as is - fun fact- baseball. Koreans love climbing and baseball, and I gather, they are rather good at both. In anycase with landscape like this its not hard to imagine why many people take up hiking.
Just I thought a fun picture of the grocery store. Thats my cart I'm holding, the grocery store is on the bottom floor of the GS Mart, sort of a Walmart of Korea, as I'm finding out. Anyway all the shopping carts have little "grippies" on the bottom which stick tight when you are riding one of these escalator/moving walkway "thingies" up or downstairs.
Just a street view of the intersection that you come too when walking away from my school
And this is a view of the street my school is on. Pretty neat eh? I'm definately smack dab in the middle of a city of 3.5 million people. It's a new experience and its really working thus far.
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