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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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 Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:36 am Post subject: *cough* I Cant Breathe! |
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Well, six months in Seoul and I feel like a pack a day smoker. I swear I have some sort of mucus-related illness every five or six weeks. Ansan was worse, Cheonan was slightly better.
Is there anyplace on this length of ROK that has nice breathable air? Busan? Geoje? Jeju? The top of a mountain somewhere?
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:56 am Post subject: |
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| Live near the water. The ocean I mean. |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:09 am Post subject: Re: *cough* |
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| twg wrote: |
| Is there anyplace on this length of ROK that has nice breathable air? Busan? Geoje? Jeju? The top of a mountain somewhere? |
Bundang! |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
| Live near the water. The ocean I mean. |
"Wow, the pollution makes the sunsets so beautiful."
A buddy commenting as we walked the Wolmido pier one evening. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:21 am Post subject: Re: *cough* |
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| twg wrote: |
Well, six months in Seoul and I feel like a pack a day smoker. I swear I have some sort of mucus-related illness every five or six weeks. Ansan was worse, Cheonan was slightly better.
Is there anyplace on this length of ROK that has nice breathable air? Busan? Geoje? Jeju? The top of a mountain somewhere? |
Yeah, Bundang. The place where tiberious lives feels like a street in Vancouver. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 10:27 am Post subject: Re: *cough* |
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Yeah, Bundang. The place where tiberious lives feels like a street in Vancouver. |
With or without the "boil water" advisory? |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
Location: Getting some fresh air...
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Bundang?
Land of forty-story Lotte Castles, just right next door to Seou, has fresh airl?
How is it possible?
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| Live near the water. The ocean I mean. |
Being a maritimer, I do miss the ocean. Anyone down south within walking distance of a beach willing to scoop on how life is down there? |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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The air is fresher, but the job market is definately less lucrative.
Also, there is a lot less to do outside of work.
Of course, this depends which area of Busan you are in. |
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ella
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
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| Do the air currents come into Busan off of the ocean, or do they blow from Busan onto the ocean? |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| twg wrote: |
Bundang?
Land of forty-story Lotte Castles, just right next door to Seou, has fresh airl?
How is it possible? |
No offence to Tiberious, but forget Bundang. Instead, look to northern Seoul, where the air in many parts -- the hilly, green, forested parts -- is God-blessed and _seems_ much less polluted than the rest of the city. South of the river is off-the-scale nasty in terms of air quality and every other respect, but we already knew that.
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| Live near the water. The ocean I mean. |
Being a maritimer, I do miss the ocean. Anyone down south within walking distance of a beach willing to scoop on how life is down there? |
You know, about two years ago I thought of launching a thread on this very same topic and same request. My future plans have changed a lot since then, so the answers are irrelevant to me now, but I'm still quite curious. I'm personally most comfortable living next to an ocean or a sea and have most of my life. I think, at some subconscious level, it helps give me a sense of location, bearing, direction and a surer footing. Mountains are a good though temporary substitute. But somewhere surrounded by nothing but land -- especially flat, unremarkable, monochromatic land -- would probably not do me any good.
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Do the air currents come into Busan off of the ocean, or do they blow from Busan onto the ocean? |
It depends which part of the city you are in. If you are near the beach, you can feel the breeze coming in off the ocean most days. It's damn cold in winter sometimes, so it's not always a good thing.
I don't have any weather charts to post for you, sorry. I am just going from personal experience. |
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Hyeon Een
Joined: 24 Jun 2005
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| twg wrote: |
| Anyone down south within walking distance of a beach willing to scoop on how life is down there? |
I live less than 10 minutes by motorbike from a really pretty beach (and 7 minutes from an ugly one). In the late spring/summer/early fall it's awesome. Haven't been to the beach since the weather cooled down though.
I live in a city of about 250,000 so it's not total countryside. I like it and I've been happy here. I will probably move to Seoul next year though (because I want to study Korean and try living in the big city)
The air's pretty clean. (Slightly) cooler summers and warmer winters than up in Seoul. Beach parties rock. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: yes |
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Give it up guys, the whole country is filthy.
Just you have to choose to what degree of filth you want to live in. Mine gets 3 out of 5 stars. |
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some waygug-in
Joined: 25 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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| You are right, Busan does get hit with the "yellow dust" in the Springtime as well. |
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twg
Joined: 02 Nov 2006
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| Posted: Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:43 pm Post subject: |
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I was thinking of trying to land in Jeju City at one point, but I cant imagine it being anything but a ghost town in the non-tourist seasons.
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| Instead, look to northern Seoul, where the air in many parts -- the hilly, green, forested parts -- is God-blessed and _seems_ much less polluted than the rest of the city. |
heh, Kangbuk Gu isnt far enough north I guess |
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