a bit of the neighborhood

i went for a long walk around my neighborhood one day and here's some of what i saw.

that little skyline is the gok, where my apartment is.

 

 

i was a little surprised to see this recycling place after walking through the tunnel, as i had expected there to just be more rice fields.

i walked a good stretch of the creeks and there were a couple other dams. i did seem some good size fish from the shore, but all the fishermen were in the wrong spots.

 

 

there are cards like the one with the girl on it all over the gok. in the stairwell, on car windshields, littering every step you make. this one seemed a little out of place.

this next photo probably doesn't look like much. it's a dog pen and i'm almost positive that the dogs that are in it are for eating. there are some pens behind work that i know are for consumption. i also recently noticed a restaurant in the gok that serves dog.

it might be difficult to make out, but this piece of concrete has what looks like a lion head drawn into it on the left and 맹수화 (maeng-soo-hwa) on the right. 맹수 translates as 'beast of prey'. 화 is a little harder to pin down. possibilities are 'anger, stifling sensation in the chest, disaster, total, pique, deuce, flower, bloom'. because grammar structure is kind of backward (compared to english), let's go with 'totally angry beast of prey'. as to why that's written in concrete, your guess is as good as mine. it is possible that it's simply someones name.

곡선교 (gok-sun-gyo) i can't get a perfect translation, but my guess is 'gok bridge'. there were hundreds of 담배꽁초(dam-bae-ggong-cho) or cigarette butts on the bridge. and you can't forget your favorite vitamin/energy drink that's full of unbelievable ingredients.

this must be the place where all the stolen bikes end up, obviously not being used.

on the right is an example of some of the prostitution cards all over the ground.

it's 고추 (go-choo) or pepper drying time.

this particular card says 애인. 장소 선택후 전화주세요. it basically means 'lover. pick a place, call me and we'll meet'. the gok, what a place.