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So, 14-21 May 2019 I went to South Korea.
My younger sister and my now (second) brother in law got married ❤
It was a special experience and a beautiful wedding.
The city of Seoul is 30 million people strong and so completely different from my own little sphere of unicorns. I only saw a fragment of it but I don't think I could have handled any more as a first encounter.
The pace is indescribable. I don't believe Koreans ever sleep. The city is a warped mix of the past and the future. Towering apartment and office buildings and small traditional wooden houses. The rapid expansion push some streets into the land of chrome, steel, glass and high tech solutions (T-money cards? Brilliant!!!) while some streets remain in faulty but somehow functioning electrical wire clusters, the smell of sewage from underdimensioned drains, garbage left on the curb, lots and lots of tiny restaurants where you basically sit in the lap of the chef, small convenience stores with boxes on boxes and the most mind boggling combination of goods, asphalt so uneven you have to lift your feet unnaturally high in each step so as not to trip. And the traffic. Cars, trucks and motorcycles and mopeds carrying cartons of eggs and crates with beverages EVERYWHERE. Lose your concentration for one second and you WILL get hit. Seoul is awesome in the sense of fantastic and terrifying. It is exhausting and invigorating.
So, 14-21 May 2019 I went to South Korea.
My younger sister and my now (second) brother in law got married ❤
It was a special experience and a beautiful wedding.
The city of Seoul is 30 million people strong and so completely different from my own little sphere of unicorns. I only saw a fragment of it but I don't think I could have handled any more as a first encounter.
The pace is indescribable. I don't believe Koreans ever sleep. The city is a warped mix of the past and the future. Towering apartment and office buildings and small traditional wooden houses. The rapid expansion push some streets into the land of chrome, steel, glass and high tech solutions (T-money cards? Brilliant!!!) while some streets remain in faulty but somehow functioning electrical wire clusters, the smell of sewage from underdimensioned drains, garbage left on the curb, lots and lots of tiny restaurants where you basically sit in the lap of the chef, small convenience stores with boxes on boxes and the most mind boggling combination of goods, asphalt so uneven you have to lift your feet unnaturally high in each step so as not to trip. And the traffic. Cars, trucks and motorcycles and mopeds carrying cartons of eggs and crates with beverages EVERYWHERE. Lose your concentration for one second and you WILL get hit. Seoul is awesome in the sense of fantastic and terrifying. It is exhausting and invigorating.
