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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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I wonder how many roads they'll name in honor of their beloved native English-speaking, ESL-teaching guests? Some ideas:
Paleskin Parkway
Waygookin Lane
Fork Avenue
Hand Gesture Boulevard
Fatass Freeway
Monkey Road
One can dream, I suppose.... |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 5:46 am Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| Korea's clusterfu(k style urban (non) planning is blame for the inability to implement this kind of system. Everything was built so quickly and shoddily that they didn't take time to think things through. |
I think the whole addressing system is a legacy left over from the Japanese colonial days. Many Japanese cities seem to use the same system. |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 7:13 am Post subject: |
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| Would you please stop calling it a system? |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Pyongshin Sangja wrote: |
| Would you please stop calling it a system? |
Ha. Well, it is a system, but only one useful to the postal people. |
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kiwiliz
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 2:31 am Post subject: Addresses |
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Oh no! What am I going to do with all these enormous maps of my neighbourhood?
Map? you found a map?? I have been looking for one for Jecheon for a week! Am using one a neighbour drew...  But its not got everything on it |
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Woland
Joined: 10 May 2006
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 3:44 am Post subject: |
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| seoulsucker wrote: |
| Look at just about any major city in the modern world from above and you'll see a waffle pattern. Seoul? Spaghetti. |
You obviously have never been to Istanbul or Moscow or any of many other major cities in the world that grew organically, with out a lot of urban planning. Given that the restoration of Seoul after the war came after the large scale development of urban planning, we might expect something different here. But I think the country was so poor and so much needed to be done at the time that this issue didn't get the attention it might have.
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Sun May 21, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| Come on now folks, lets not get too excited. We all know that Korea has lots of laws and they make new ones. But that doesn't mean they'll actually follow it. |
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