Announcing the New KBC Sports Bag!
Korea Business Central is now offering this sports bag in collaboration with the Kangdonghee Basketball Club. All you have to do is join a basketball team like Cauvery did and you can have one too!
Category: Seongpo-Dong
Governor Was Out at Hanyang University in Ansan
The Governor was out at Hanyang University in Ansan about a month ago and I made sure to show up too. He saw me and came over to shake my hand, but with so many other people around, I think he was just going out of his way to show...
Duck Restaurant at Banweol Lake Near Ansan
On our way out to Mr. Toilet House in Suweon a week or so ago, we stopped by Banweol Lake, a nice 15-minute drive from our house outside Ansan. It's not one of the prettiest parks around, seeing as how it's surrounded on all sides now by highways and the...
Plant Shop at 2-Dong Flower Village
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...
Wildflower Gardens at Nojeok Hill
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 Tree Didn’t Make It at Nojeok Hill
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...
Old Train Tracks in Ansan Built During the Japanese Colonial Period
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...
To and From the Funeral of a Relative in Buyeo and Hongseong (June 8, 2011)
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...
Flowers Trashing the Street Several Days After the New Night Club Opening in Jungang-Dong, Ansan
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!).
