Just an example of the impeccably clean tracks in Seoul’s underground. Eat your heart out MTA! There’s no refuse, no river of digustingness running in the middle of the tracks and more importantly not one single sign of vermin anywhere!!! It’s a far cry from the rat infested underground in the big apple.
The Korean subway system was covered in these hysterical ads featuring koreans with giant heads. It never ceased to amuse me…
To the average Korean, these swinging subway handles represent the opportunity to sway comfortably while enjoying their daily commute. To the 6′3” American, these headache handles represent a constant source of bruises on the forehead, sharp exclamations of pain and muttered curses under my breath.
Just when I thought I’d mastered the minefield of handles, I’d [...]
I could rave and go on for ages about the miracle that is the Seoul Subway system. If there were a promised land of transit systems, surely it will be modeled after Seoul’s. Not only could you eat off of the tracks of the train itself, the entire stations are spotless. They’re meticulously maintained by [...]
Forget the manpurse (aka murse) the korean guys don’t play around and go straight for the full on purse.
My cousin Nancy teaches kindergarten in Seoul, Korea. She’s got a great group of kids and was willing to sacrifice me, I mean allow me, to take up one of their lesson times and show them some of the fun pictures I took on my trip. I went through all the boring ones of buildings [...]
