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15.11.09

What I See At Night

People ask me constantly what Korea looks like at night. Ok, they don't. But I imagine if I ever got mail from anyone asking about Korea, they'd want to know what it looks like around sunset. Because you're all hopeless romantics. It's really disgusting.

Center View

That's a hospital in the back. But it looks like a jail. And that's a park across the street and a court that guys use to play some kind of weird kick-a-vollyball-over-a-tennis-net-and-hit-it-with-our-heads game. This next two pictures show the expansive apartment complexes that people live in. There are no houses in the city. If you want to see a house, you best be heading out into butt-fuck no where where people pick rice and eat their dogs.

Right View

That last sentence may not be completely accurate and might be a very stereotypical over-generalization of Korean hillbillies. But they do exist. And they probably do eat their dogs.

Left View

Thanks for indulging me.

6 comments:

f8hasit said...

I like the photos. And am amused by the photo commentary!
:-)

Kelsey said...

Oh, there are most certainly Korean hillbillies. Here's a photo of one from the rural village I used to live in: http://www.driftingfocus.com/blogs/?p=4000

Anonymous said...

The pictures are great. Hard to imagine South Korea looks like Toronto.

Kelsey said...

@Anonymous: Well, not all of it. Some of it looks like this: http://www.driftingfocus.com/blogs/?p=5009

Anonymous said...

Wow, the Koreans in the slums need to go get jobs!!! So they can live in the Mississauga Korea in CJ's pics

Makita Jazzqueen said...

I loved the pics.
And your previous post was so witty! I like your writing style.
Cool blog, check out mine!.

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