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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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