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PeterDragon
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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 Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject: Korean back roads/English language road maps? |
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| I'm buying a motorcycle (soon hopefully, just gotta find a suitable one.) I want to use it for some slightly longer trips, like from one end of Gyonggi-do to the other. I want to use back roads--- I always do on a bike. Are there maps that could allow me to plot a non-highway course? Where can I get them in my language, either in hard copy or on the web? |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 6:44 pm Post subject: Re: Korean back roads/English language road maps? |
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| PeterDragon wrote: |
| I'm buying a motorcycle (soon hopefully, just gotta find a suitable one.) I want to use it for some slightly longer trips, like from one end of Gyonggi-do to the other. I want to use back roads--- I always do on a bike. Are there maps that could allow me to plot a non-highway course? Where can I get them in my language, either in hard copy or on the web? |
You can get english language roadmaps at the Kyobo bookstore in Jongno.
That's where I got mine. |
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PeterDragon
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Is Jongo in the Seoul area? Where's it near? |
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ernie
Joined: 05 Aug 2006
Location: asdfghjk
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:20 am Post subject: |
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| they have maps in korea? this is news to me! |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 6:31 am Post subject: |
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| PeterDragon wrote: |
| Is Jongo in the Seoul area? Where's it near? |
????? is Jongno in Seoul?? Where are YOU?
Kyobo bookstore:
Kyobo building, downstairs.
2nd building south of the American embassy.
Gwanghwamun subway station.
| ernie wrote: |
| they have maps in korea? this is news to me! |
Of course they have maps. There are no street addresses than make any sense to anyone. How do you think the pizza dude can find you. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:49 am Post subject: |
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| ttompatz wrote: |
| How do you think the pizza dude can find you. |
육감, bro. The scooter guys are bred for it. |
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cangel
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: Jeonju, S. Korea
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:33 am Post subject: |
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| My buddy and I took our motorcycles and hit the road this afternoon. What a glorious day for a ride.Short as it was, just 2 hours, the scenery and weather couldn't have been better. We stopped in 'Mayberry', literally a 1 road town, and sat at a dirty little store and had a Fanta orange in the glass bottles all the while chatting with the gathering local kids. They appeared unaccustomed to foreigners but spoke more English than we spoke Korean. Beautiful. Unlike other posts/posters on this board, we actually enjoyed chatting with the kids and "internationalizing" for a bit. Good fun. |
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Bibbitybop
Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| cangel wrote: |
| My buddy and I took our motorcycles and hit the road this afternoon. What a glorious day for a ride.Short as it was, just 2 hours, the scenery and weather couldn't have been better. We stopped in 'Mayberry', literally a 1 road town, and sat at a dirty little store and had a Fanta orange in the glass bottles all the while chatting with the gathering local kids. They appeared unaccustomed to foreigners but spoke more English than we spoke Korean. Beautiful. Unlike other posts/posters on this board, we actually enjoyed chatting with the kids and "internationalizing" for a bit. Good fun. |
This is what I did back in my home country, minus the language barrier, and the restricted 2-hour ride. Nice-uhh. |
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PeterDragon
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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| PeterDragon wrote: |
| Is Jongo in the Seoul area? Where's it near? |
????? is Jongno in Seoul?? Where are YOU? |
I'm in Kwangmyong city, a half a mile into Gyonggi Province. In defense of my ignorance, I've only been here a few months, and my Western co-workers never go into Seoul for some goddam reason. Most of them go weeks without leaving our neighborhood. I got stationed with a bunch of wallflowers. I'm actually about to transfer to Anseong, about 40 miles south of Seoul. The bike I just bought will allow me to come back when I feel like it. |
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xtchr
Joined: 23 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:57 pm Post subject: |
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If you can, try to get a bilingual edition. That way if you are really in the sticks and get lost and need help from the locals, they'll be able to read the Korean on the map, while you're making sense of the English.
Happy travels! |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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If you can read some Korean get a GPS thing that can be attached to bikes. I'm sure I've seen them on some delivery-guy bikes.
My PMP/GPS guided me sucessfully on many long road-trips using back roads. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 3:46 am Post subject: |
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| PeterDragon wrote: |
| ttompatz wrote: |
| PeterDragon wrote: |
| Is Jongo in the Seoul area? Where's it near? |
????? is Jongno in Seoul?? Where are YOU? |
I'm in Kwangmyong city, a half a mile into Gyonggi Province. In defense of my ignorance, I've only been here a few months, and my Western co-workers never go into Seoul for some goddam reason. Most of them go weeks without leaving our neighborhood. I got stationed with a bunch of wallflowers. I'm actually about to transfer to Anseong, about 40 miles south of Seoul. The bike I just bought will allow me to come back when I feel like it. |
OK. In your defense...
Grab any bus from Kwangmyong going into any Seoul subway station.
Get on the subway. You want the Gwanghwamun subway station on the purple line. You can also get out at the Jongak station (line 1 - dark blue line) and walk 150 meters west to the Kyobo building.
If you can find this building ...
[img] http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/299797099_c137aecee0.jpg?v=0 [/img]
then you only have to keep walking west and you can't miss it. It will be on your right hand side as you walk westbound. Keep an eye out for the riot police guarding the American embassy. If you see them, you are very close.
Go downstairs in the building. You will find the ENGLISH book section (if I am not mistaken) on the left side and toward the back as you walk in from the subway station.
In there you will find lots of books (of all kinds) and also English and bi-lingual maps of all kinds. You can get road maps in fold-out format or in book form.
There is a kyobo book store at the CO-EX mall too but I have never been to it and can't help you with it. |
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PeterDragon
Joined: 15 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 3:57 am Post subject: |
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| I'll go to the Kyobo bookstore this week. In the meanwhile, I had to bump the thread up to show this gem I found online; a high-res English and Korean language map of Seoul: http://tinyurl.com/2dbc75 |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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