Just a night shot of the beautiful Dolsan Bridge (seen from Dolsan Park), which just so happened to be Korea’s largest cable-stayed bridge.
The color scheme, BTW, cycles between 50 different colors. Which is kinda cool.
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I’m a little confused, because according to Naver the Jindo Grand Bridge is 484 meters long, longer than the Dolsan Bridge. However, every source I’ve seen considers the one in Yeosu longer. Any ideas? http://100.naver.com/100.nhn?docid=143453
(Also, I tried sending you an email, but I don’t know if it got through. Either it didn’t work or I ended up sending it 5 times, so I apologize if the latter happened.)
Aha, it was you in Yeosu today!
I was the foreign dude with the Korean girl overlooking Odongdo Island this afternoon you said hi to whilst taking photos.
My girlfriend was admiring your hanbok and I was thinking, could it be… No surely its not the Marmot, although you did look a little familiar.
It was nice to meet you. Hope you’re enjoying your trip to deep south Jeolla!
Never trust those Haenam people. They’re stinking liers, with a bad case of bridge envy to boot!
BTW, just read on your blog about the big merger in the works for Yeosu, Suncheon and Gwangyang. I guess we best start getting used to saying 여수광역시.
Damn, that’s weird.
Coincidentally, I also read your piece on Beolgyo in the Gwangju Times. Nice piece. Beolgyo’s a great place — I did a photo essay on it last year on Ye Olde Blog:
http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/.....c-history/
Oh, wait, I see you’ve already seen it. Sorry for not responding.
PS: I didn’t get your email. But I can be reached at marmotshole@gmail.com.
T’was in fact me. Nice view from up there. And nice to meet you, too.
I’m in Yeosu till tomorrow shooting photos for a piece I’ve written for the November issue of SEOUL. Actually, I was down here last weekend as well, but the typhoon and generally shitty weather didn’t make for great photos, so back down I am. Truth be told, the weather still isn’t all that great — my photos from the observatory in Jasan Park kinda sucked, and in November, you’d hope for some crisp blue skies. Alas…
Marmot, I saw you too today! I was the foreigner waving at you from below, while you climbed the bridge to take that photo. Did you see me? I liked the hanbok, although it looked pretty uncomfortable as you risked your life climbing that bridge for the sake of the Marmot’s Hole. I appreciate your dedication to the website.
It’s very interesting news about the Yeosu-Suncheon- Gwangyang merger and possible implications of this. Yeosu has the seaport and airport and is bidding for the 2012 Expo; Suncheon has the educational facilities and has the most convenient, central location of the three; Gwangyang has the POSCO mill and the ongoing construction of the free economic zone. Throw in Hadong, which has um… pears, and Namhae with its beaches and tourism potential; and you have an economic juggernaut on your hands!
The city would most probably be called Yeosu metropolitan city (여수광역시, 麗水廣域市) to avoid confusion leading up to the Yeosu Expo 2012 bid or possibly Gwangyang Bay metropolitan city (광양만광역시, 光陽灣廣域市) as all cities are bordered by the bay and to bring the name in line with the Gwangyang Bay Free Economic Zone. Alternatively, it could be called Namdo metropolitan city (남도광역시, 南道廣域市). Or, and my personal favourite, they could use the first letter of each city’s name to form Yeosungwang metropolitan city (여순광광역시, 麗順光廣域市), whose Chinese characters mean ‘beautiful, orderly and bright’ metropolitan city, has a nice ring to it don’t ya think!
If they’re really going to make a city out of those three, they really could use a bridge across the bay… Kinda takes awhile to drive around it.
They are making a bridge across the bay =) The bridge from Yeosu to Gwangyang Jungmadong will cut journey time from more than an hour to 10 minutes, which will be very very convenient. There’s also a bridge to Namhae-do which will knock about an hour or more off the journey.
That is a really cool bridge! It also seems that there are many people out doing marmot watching :o)