crossmr
Joined: 22 Nov 2008
Location: Hwayangdong, Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:22 am Post subject: Interesing article from 1998 |
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While googling, I came across this article from 1998 about Pusan
http://www.salon.com/wlust/pm/1998/09/24post.html
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| At first glance, it's hard to tell that the IMF era has hit Pusan. Nearly one year after the crash of the economy, the streets of Korea's biggest port city still look as crowded and gaudy as they did one year ago. Groups of Korean men still swagger the sidewalks in golf-course plaids like Vegas Rat Packers on their way to three-martini lunches, middle-aged Korean housewives still dress for the market with the frighteningly self-conscious glamour of Zsa Zsa Gabor, and college-age girls still wobble on designer platform shoes and squawk into cell phones at bus stops. Traffic is still a breakneck blur of luxury cars and taxis, delivery trucks and mopeds, overused horns and under-heeded speed limits. And -- towering on every horizon -- enormous construction cranes still hoist I-beams, steadily adding to the city's collection of bland concrete high-rise apartment complexes, which glow yellow in the early evening like cramped armadas of "Battlestar Galactica" spaceships, cruising nowhere. |
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