Streets and People

 

So Korea is a 600 year old city. We are staying in the old district, out in Yeouido where people are right and the city was planned things are different, but here pedestrians rule the streets.

In Insedong the main tourist street next to Hostel there is a small sidewalk with no curb, but some granite blocks to prevent people from cars from leaving the street. In the meantime people easily flow from sidewalk to street without even thinking about it. There are no crosswalks, and cars move at a snails pace. Even more impressive is Dongdemoon where vendors literally take over a 4 lane arterial to sell their goods. The picture your looking at is those vendors on the street. You can see cars trying to get through the shoppers, and failing. Later on we came across a 6 lane arterial that was being used as parking. I think pictures speak louder than words here so I'll just throw this up and call it a night. Tomorrow is a day where I do an independent project so I'll catch up on event blogging, and actually do my presentation.