Commuting as an experience. It’s about a 10 minute walk from the subway station to my office. The simplest way is to take the main streets around the outside of the block, populated by office and retail buildings, as indicated by the red line. The more interesting path The more interesting way is to take…
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The Morning Commute #2
Spells E-Z Ham As I noted in an earlier post, Korea has no lack of ugly signage, adding to the urban cacophony. This one I found hilarious. It’s a sign for a cosmetics company: “LJH Cosmetics”. They were wise to go with the acronym: I assume that the company was set up by 3 partners,…
The Morning Commute #1
Seoul’s eclectic architecture Now that I have fully embraced my role as the tourist, I intend to have fun. Let’s start with today. Since everything is new to me (the tourist) and in part because of my architectural education, I actually look at buildings. I read them, measure them and place them in a style….