8 posts tagged “korea”
Korea had so much to offer in the area of awesome signs. Here's a favorite:
Show us the best beach you have visited.
Submitted by Marko.
I have been to a few really lovely beaches. Sadly, I have very few pictures of them. Here's a picture of me at the beach somewhere along the north shore in Hawaii on Thanksgiving in '98.
Also, when I was a teenager, I went to Mexico constantly! I've been down there more times than I can count. Mexico has some really beautiful beaches, as well. Unfortunately, when I went down to Mexico in my teenage years, I was much less concerned with the pretty scenery as I was with getting as much alcohol in my system as possible and not falling down or passing out in public. Not falling down was made much more difficult by
California had some nice beaches, too. But since I lived in a cold part of California I didn't go hang out at the beach much. But compared to this god-awful fucking place, the central coast area of California sounds heavenly!
Show us your favorite mode of transport.
Submitted by NomDeCocon.
I guess I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy and nostalgic about Korea today. I miss it a lot. I want to go back overseas. Anyway, this is a subway map of Seoul (as the title states), which is such an easy system to get around! Of course I had the benefit of being able to read the place names in Korean, but everything there was in English, too. So even if one didn't know a word of Korean, one could just as easily get around via the train. I'd never really had to get around on a subway system before I went to Korea. I'd ridden one once in New York City, but not very far, and most of the time (on that visit) my friend and I took taxi cabs. So since I had no idea what I was doing, I was pretty nervous about it at first. But that was short lived. It was so simple! While stationed in Korea, I came home to visit my hubby on my mid-tour leave, and we went up to NYC. I was glad he was there because NYC's train system was confusing as hell! I'm sure it's because it's so much older than Korea's is. I don't really know how old Seoul's is, but everything was very modern and clean. No disgusting rats like in NYC! Anyhoo, I would say that the train is my favorite mode of transport. The train in Seoul anyway. And maybe Pusan. Although their's is far, far less complex! See?
Show us a nice, warm scarf.
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? Why?
Submitted by abcdefg81.
What a great QotD. I suppose I'll avoid the easy answer to this question, which would be ANYWHERE BUT HERE! Seriously, I hate this place. The traffic is the worst I've ever seen in my life. Ever. The people are just rude in general. It's cold as hell, but it doesn't snow much, making the bitter, bitter cold totally worthless. And the worst thing: it just doesn't feel like home.
But I digress.
I can't think of only one single place I would live if I had the chance. There are too many places that I've lived and loved, and far, far too many that I've never been to.
I'd love to go back to Hawaii because it's beautiful, and it's always warm. Also, I have friends (OK friend) there that are (is) interested in more than drinking all the time and going out clubbing at the gay bars. On top of that, I LOVE living near the ocean/beach. I love the little dive bars in Kailua. I love that aloha shirts are appropriate almost anywhere. I love pidgeon. I love palm trees. I love swimming in the ocean (and not freezing my ass off in the process). I love that the trashcans at Subway say "MAHALO." I love seeing the surf report on the news along with the weather, or hearing it on the radio. I know the traffic sucks and finding a job is tough (it was like that when I lived there almost 10 years ago, too), but this is my "dream address," so I can just skip over the things I don't like about Hawaii. =]
I'd also love to go back to Korea. I really enjoyed living overseas for that year. If Joe was there with me, it would have been so fantastic. I imagine that we'd still be there if that was the case. The food kicked ass! That would be reason enough for me, but in addition to that there were just so many places to explore. I didn't do nearly enough of that while I was there. And it was so cheap and easy! We got from one corner of the country (Seoul) to the opposite end (Pusan) in about 3 hours on the bullet train. You could just zip through the Korean country side in a comfortable passenger train going over 300 kph. How cool is that?! I miss the street vendors, the neon lights everywhere you turned in Seoul, the Kai Bai Bo video game/slot machine thingies that were all over the place in Chong-No, "love" hotels, and the incredibly friendly (although terribly difficult to understand) people in Pusan. And did I mention the food? I really miss the food. Sure, you can go to Korean restaurants here in the states, but it's not the same. Maybe it's because we have health codes and sanitation standards here in the US. Ha! However, I do not miss the bathrooms in Korea. Squatters are not cool. Neither is having to carry around your own toilet paper (or purchase some) because you don't know if the bathrooms will have any for you. Also, throwing your used toilet paper in the trash is gross.
Well, those are only two places that I'd like to live (again). I could go on with this question all night, but I'm tired now, and I don't feel like continuing. So sorry. This is all you get.
Good Night.
What was the last wedding you went to? Were you in the wedding?
I'm pretty sure the last 'wedding' I went to was my own. It wasn't really a wedding, though. Joe and I spent the day running around between Osan AB in Songtan, the Mayor of Seoul's office in Seoul (obviously), and the US Embassy in Seoul. Luckily, the last two were right across the street from each other. We didn't have a wedding party or ceremony of any kind. After the guy at the embassy stamped our marriage certificate, we walked a few blocks to a little hole-in-the-wall Korean restaurant and exchanged rings over chamchi-bokkum-bap (tuna fried rice) and whatever the hell Joe had. I don't remember. We went out to dinner with friends that night, but all in all, it was very low-key.
