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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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 Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:18 am Post subject: Abandoned Amusement Park in Korea (pictures) |
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I've been meaning to get down here for a long time. This amusement park sits on a ridge on the edge of Okpo City (pop. 200 000) in Geoje Island, for all to see. It has been closed since 1999, when the park's second fatality-causing accident saw a young girl fall off a chick-shaped skybike. The owner of the park shut it down and never paid the girl's family a cent (or won).
1 I looked out the hotel window in the morning, and there it was.
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8 Part of the viking ship.
9 The masthead of the viking ship keeps a watch over the city.
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11 This is part of a sign that said "Viking Room Salon." A room salon is a very seedy Korean business where you may pay a girl to do anything from pour your drinks to hump you.
13 Too overgrown to explore.
15 This is the severed head of the duck which I believe killed the little girl.
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17 The ducks (or chicks) were probably the most photogenic part of the park.
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19 Unfortunately the lighting was never right on the merry-go-round for me to get a good picture. Note the word "sex" spraypainted on the saddle. We found that word painted all over the park.
20 The roller coaster was cute. Also, the building in the background turned out to be an abandoned swimming pool.
21 I got this from the highest point on the roller coaster.
22 Covered with thorns.
25 We also found this building, which contains a swimming pool and saunas on the first floor, and a variety of things on the second floor including squash, ballet, and a totally destroyed bowling alley. I attempted to do a blend on this picture, but the sky was too overcast at the time. Still, probably one of my best to date, sadly.
31 In order to wake up for sunrise, I decided the best way was to stay up all night. The only thing keeping me going by this point was the urge to finish the beer I was on.
33 Flying to the Moon never looked so impossible.
You can see many, many more pictures at my site at www.daehanmindecline.com/UEseoul
By the way, thanks to VanIslander who gave me some information about the place.
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Atavistic
Joined: 22 May 2006
Location: How totally stupid that Korean doesn't show in this area.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| Where'd your wife get her shoes? |
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Lizara
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Great pictures! Thanks for sharing. |
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princess
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: soul of Asia
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Sorry, but pic 14 is in poor taste, considering someone died that way on the ride. But I like your wife's Emily bag. Cute! |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:36 am Post subject: |
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| princess wrote: |
| Sorry, but pic 14 is in poor taste, considering someone died that way on the ride. But I like your wife's Emily bag. Cute! |
I was thinking about that, and you could make a case for it, but it's in far more poor taste that the owner of the park never gave them any money. |
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shaunew
Joined: 17 Apr 2007
Location: Calgary
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| Great pics. A bunch of them were funny. I would love to go there and explore it just seems really fun. I did the same thing at Olympic stadium, me and a buddy jumped a wall and got inside were no one was allowed. We rode an elevator that smelled like an old tent and visited the suites were the royal family stayed. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: Re: Abandoned Amusement Park in Korea (pictures) |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
I've been meaning to get down here for a long time. This amusement park sits on a ridge on the edge of Okpo City (pop. 200 000) in Geoje Island, for all to see. It has been closed since 1999, when the park's second fatality-causing accident saw a young girl fall off a chick-shaped skybike. The owner of the park shut it down and never paid the girl's family a cent (or won).
1 I looked out the hotel window in the morning, and there it was.
By the way, thanks to VanIslander who gave me some information about the place. |
My pleasure.
The first pic shows the rooftop apartment I was in for 3.5 years! The blue roof behind the blue watertower. When i moved there in 2002 your motel didn't exist, nor did the tall cream-colored hotel on the right of the photo, neither did a LOT of other tall buildings in Okpo, like the Geoje Island Hotel, and everything now impeding the sightlines from my ol' apartment to the bay. The sfunz pc room in that building used to be a kindergarten that closed down late in '02, the week I arrived in fact. And the ground floor of that building was just storage until my director - who owns the building - decided to sell the hagwon I was teaching in across town and instead open a seafood restaurant at the street level, which lasted over a year, before he closed that and opened the pc room. When I moved into the neighbourhood there were NO pc rooms for eight blocks: now there are at least six pc rooms thereabouts, not to mention countless new restaurants (though some of my favs are gone *sniff, sniff*).
I never did get up the courage/audacity to trespass and have fun in the closed-down amusement park, but a couple of times almost decided to. |
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numazawa
Joined: 20 Mar 2005
Location: The Concrete Barnyard
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:44 am Post subject: |
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| Hm... a park for abandoned amusement... has potential. Could be talking hub here very possibly, yes indeed. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| shaunew wrote: |
| Great pics. A bunch of them were funny. I would love to go there and explore it just seems really fun. I did the same thing at Olympic stadium, me and a buddy jumped a wall and got inside were no one was allowed. We rode an elevator that smelled like an old tent and visited the suites were the royal family stayed. |
Stadiums can be fun. One of my friends twisted his ankle jumping a wall, I think in Olympic Stadium, and landed in front of a big Korean family. I got into Dongdaemoon Baseball Stadium recently. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:46 am Post subject: Re: Abandoned Amusement Park in Korea (pictures) |
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| VanIslander wrote: |
My pleasure.
The first pic shows the rooftop apartment I was in for 3.5 years! The blue roof behind the blue watertower. When i moved there in 2002 your motel didn't exist, nor did the tall cream-colored hotel on the right of the photo, neither did a LOT of other tall buildings in Okpo, like the Geoje Island Hotel, and everything now impeding the sightlines from my ol' apartment to the bay. The sfunz pc room in that building used to be a kindergarten that closed down late in '02, the week I arrived in fact. And the ground floor of that building was just storage until my director - who owns the building - decided to sell the hagwon I was teaching in across town and instead open a seafood restaurant at the street level, which lasted over a year, before he closed that and opened the pc room. When I moved into the neighbourhood there were NO pc rooms for eight blocks: now there are at least six pc rooms thereabouts, not to mention countless new restaurants (though some of my favs are gone *sniff, sniff*).
I never did get up the courage/audacity to trespass and have fun in the closed-down amusement park, but a couple of times almost decided to. |
Wow, that's a coincidence. That area around there has developed a fairly active night life, and there were lots of great looking barbecue restaurants. I was surprised by the amount of construction going on in the city. Not far down south there are towns with no buildings over four floors. |
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Riddzy
Joined: 06 Sep 2004
Location: London
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:59 am Post subject: |
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| fantastic, evocative pictures. Lovely. |
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Cliffhanger
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:59 am Post subject: |
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LOL at 14. Poor taste obviously but still made me laugh.
Very cool pics. It's weird seeing parks in that state. You kind of get these visions of people sitting in these rides having fun, and then you see the rides like in picture 13. Sad really.
There was a park about 20 mins from my house in Canada that I had been to many times when I was young. It was abandoned at least 10 years ago, and I always meant to go take a look after seeing pictures of it that looked a lot like these ones. They recently leveled it for new housing, so I never got to see it. |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:04 am Post subject: Re: Abandoned Amusement Park in Korea (pictures) |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| That area around there has developed a fairly active night life, and there were lots of great looking barbecue restaurants. |
The recent trend to b.b.q. restaurants in the neighbourhood contributed to the disappearance of my fav dukalbi restaurant (though the bird flu scare had a lot to do with it), river eel soup place, Japanese restaurant, soondae stew place and haemul tang restaurant.
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| I was surprised by the amount of construction going on in the city. |
Okpo was buzzing two years ago, now the downtown bigger community of Gohyeon is mushrooming.
There is a bridge/tunnel project to be completed in a year or two, joining Geoje Island with Busan! with 4 km of it submerged. That is playing a part in the construction boom I bet. The real estate prices are getting a bit insane. Property I thought would be nice in to buy has doubled in price in three years. The island has a great future. In addition to being the world's largest shipbuilding municipality (if you add Daewoo in Okpo and Samsung in Gohyeon, since they both are in the same city, the entire large island technically governed as a single city despite they being distinctly different communities) the island is also the projected future tunnel location to Japan!!! you can see japanese islands from Geoje on a blue sky day. The Japanese think it's inevitable that their nation will be connected to mainland asia and Geoje is the place by far the closest. Even Korean gov't administration types have talked about it but elected officials in Korea of course poo-poo the idea, it being very unpopular here. Some day...
If you're thinking of buying a piece of property in Korea as an investment, Geoje Island is a good place to consider, four countless reasons. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:12 am Post subject: |
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| Cliffhanger wrote: |
There was a park about 20 mins from my house in Canada that I had been to many times when I was young. It was abandoned at least 10 years ago, and I always meant to go take a look after seeing pictures of it that looked a lot like these ones. They recently leveled it for new housing, so I never got to see it. |
Where was that? Do you remember the name? I bet I could find pictures. |
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Cliffhanger
Joined: 07 Sep 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:38 am Post subject: |
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| RACETRAITOR wrote: |
| Cliffhanger wrote: |
There was a park about 20 mins from my house in Canada that I had been to many times when I was young. It was abandoned at least 10 years ago, and I always meant to go take a look after seeing pictures of it that looked a lot like these ones. They recently leveled it for new housing, so I never got to see it. |
Where was that? Do you remember the name? I bet I could find pictures. |
The name was Prudhomme's Landing Wet n' Wild. It was mainly a waterpark, but they had a few rides there too.
Here's a site with a few pics.
http://www.consumergods.com/junk/ue-jordan.html
I saw a site awhile ago with many more pics, but I cant find it now. |
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