Comments on: A picture is worth a 1,000 words?

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 14:57:07 +0000

Hear, hear, Boshintang and Sewing. Every downtown needs a little oasis, and Cheonggyecheon is unique.

By: sewing

sewing — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:06:56 +0000

That’s “car exhaust,” not “care exhaust”…. I guess “care exhaust” is what a nurse experiences at the end of a 16-hour shift.

By: sewing

sewing — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:06:00 +0000

Cheonggyecheon is pretty much the only respite from all the concrete and care exhaust if you’re in the heart of Downtown Seoul. Otherwise, you have to get out to the nearby mountains…Namsan, Inwangsan, Naktasan, or drive or take the subway to go further afield. It is a huge improvement over the overhead expressway that was there before.

Anyhow, Cheonggyecheon is actually a natural stream…except that I read somewhere the city has to pump extra water into it to keep it flowing….

By: Haisan

Haisan — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:44:31 +0000

Oh, the fountain is very nice. I quite like it. But it is a fountain, not a stream.

Anyhow, I really hope the government “encourages” all those annoying hardware stores around Cheonggye 4,5-ga to move elsewhere. It would be a great location for a bunch of cafes, jazz bars, pojang macha and the like. Like the canal area of Fukuoka.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:40:32 +0000

I love it. I only wish they had made it navigable so I could canoe my way to work.

By: Poshintang

Poshintang — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:22:53 +0000

The ‘restoration’ of cheonggyecheon is a VAST improvement over the nasty concrete jungle that was there before. And Korea has money to waste on stuff like this now, so why not? Better to waste it on something nice rather than yet another bridge or highway.

By: Haisan

Haisan — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:18:37 +0000

I wish the Korean government would stop calling the Cheonggyecheon a “stream” and instead start billing it for what it really is — the world’s longest water fountain.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 02:31:57 +0000

After viewing that dork, I must say that you really look quite dashing in your hanbok Robert.

By: davelee

davelee — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 01:33:41 +0000

that is an awesome picture.

By: Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 00:09:17 +0000

Seems like that to a lot of people, but Seoul mayor Lee Myung-bak might might ride it to the presidency. Personally, while the project could have gone a lot better, it’s a huge improvement over what was there before, and in the end, at least he got something done.