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On the road from Seongpo-Dong to Bono-Dong in Ansan, there's a row of 15-20 greenhouse selling various plans and flowers called the 2-Dong Flower Village (2동꽃마을 – It's located in Neighborhood 2). We were out picking up some flowers recently as a gift for an associate who opened a new...
This year, they've been working hard to beautify the main walking trail around Nojeok Hill. This is one of a half-dozen little gardens built lately. It's the one we pass by at the spot where we enter and exit the park each day.
This used to be the featured tree at Nojeok Hill but last summer I noticed they'd started giving it special fertilizer in the form of bottles of blue liquid attached to the branches, I guess to try to nurse it back to health. In the fall they cut off most...
There are few people more qualified to discuss the Korean economic miracle than Peter Bartholomew. Having arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, he has remained in Korea almost continuously since 1968. Peter worked in a Korean company for almost a decade in the 1970s, and for the last 28 years,...
The metro line through Ansan runs partly along the same route as a railway built during the Japanese colonial period from Suwon to Incheon, which I understand was in operation into the 1980s. When building the metro, they didn't completely discard history and you can see the old tracks alongside...
We did a lot of driving this week. The map shows our path. A. Red – Two-hour drive from Ansan to Buyeo Noin Hospital on Tuesday B. Blue – Drive from Buyeo to Hongseong for funeral and cremation on Wednesday morning C. Orange – Drive to Mongsan-Po for lunch...
It's nice that when they opened a nightclub near my office a lot of people sent congratulatory flower arrangements to line the street. However, there ought to be a rule that they not be allowed to just sit there for 3-4 days trashing up the road (and the stone pigs!).
Sim Jae-Duck’s nickname as a child was “dog shit” because he was born in an outhouse. Apparently he liked that though because he went on to become the Mayor of Suweon with the slightly better moniker of “Mr. Toilet”. During his tenure as mayor, Mr. Toilet worked to improve toilets...
It's really nice to get so many reminders about which side owe're supposed to walk on. These are the markers on the path at Nojeok Hill. This doesn't seem to keep a few people from insisting on walking right down the middle and shoulder-bumping me even though I'm on my...
Somebody had a little too much time on their hands this spring and on one of the back trails at Nojeok Hill, they gathered and stacked stones to build this. It's a nice little spot, but since I took the photos below a few weeks ago, the arrangement has already...
