Photo & Travel Links: Sept 2, 2011


Yeouido, from a rooftop in Mapo. Click for the 1,200px version.

And for your viewing enjoyment….

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  • Dale Quarrington

    As always, thank you for the link to my website. It really has helped a lot.

    • Robert Koehler

      Glad it's helped. Great material you post.

  • jamuraisack

    in response to bruce lee's connection to beopjusa temple check this youtube video out and skip ahead to about the 8 min mark:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdqs8mVfZGk&fe

    best documentary about lee. check out the whole thing if you can.

    • Robert Koehler

      Well eff me!

      Thanks for the link — it was fascinating.

  • R. Elgin

    That Yeouido photo is nice enough but all the 90-degree angles depress me. It looks a bit Russian even.

    • Robert Koehler

      Well, it IS Yeouido…

    • http://www.monster-island.net kushibo

      Rest assured, the utilitarian apartments of Yŏŭido are also being eyed for demolition as the approach the thirty- or forty-year mark. Even a well constructed apartment block is considered to have a shelf life of no longer than half the average life span of a human in the same city, but that's an economic and urban planning dictate more than anything else.

      My own apartment complex near Seoul Station turns thirty this year and it's already been rezoned for something twice as high.

      • http://www.monster-island.net kushibo

        Heh heh… we may someday see erstwhile critics of the utilitarian apartment blocks start to sing their praises as they eventually become an endangered species.

  • Q

    Hi, Robert, your blogs are being translated into Korean.

    http://www.gasengi.com/bbs/board.php?bo_table=his

    I found out the translator calls you 로버트 코흘러 씨. It sounds like Mr. Runny-nose. >.<

  • http://strange-lands.com Jimmy

    The colours on this are fantastic. What lens did you use? Did you do any post-editing?

  • Chong Go

    Wow! That's an impressive photo!

    Regarding Youido's "utilitarian appearance, when I first came to Korea, upon seeing the National Assembly building, I truly assumed it had been built by the communists during their occupation of Seoul! It just has that look.