If you ever imagined paragliders were a tough crowd, this is the crew you would be thinking of! Some of them like An Byong Jan (second from the right) belong to the very first pilots in Korea promoting paragliding over here.
The ones familiar with my passion for paragliding were probably expecting this. I had refrained from taking equipment to Korea, but eventually I had to bump into some pilots sooner or later. Yes, I had seen wings on the riverbank of Gwangju, but did not approach them since it looked like a single pilot or student groundhandling his wing.
this food vendor seems not affected or changed by a day like Christmas - nor has any other business I have encountered, at least on the surface level of the street.
alle Weihnachtsbäume die ich gesehen habe, waren aus Lichterketten zusammengebaut - keinen einzigen "richtigen" Tannenbaum habe ich gefunden. Das mag nun an meinem fehlenden Enthusiasmus oder der dicken Erkältung liegen: Weihanchten in Seoul werde ich positiv als eine noch weitere Stufe der Farb- und Beleuchtungsschlacht in dieser Stadt in Erinnerung behalten: Merry Christmas to you all!
Always a special sight to walk the streets of a korean city by night, but is this true only to the eyes of Europeans? To me it seems I have never experienced such a convergence of advertisement, a clustering of neon signs, an onslaught of coloured light. Combine this with a korean faible for appropriating english terms into Hangul and I smile brightly: Is this only because I pick up on reading skills, or is it a potential discovery for future art work?
...to eating: At six in the morning, in the backside alleys of Busan I did not even see a street light - the only light came from a "24"-market, one of those 7/11-type all-night-open minimarts to be found on just about every second street corner. This one provides the light for this little street vendors wagon - all covered up at this hour, but certainly bustling at 10 again (this one in the area between the train station and the port of Busan).
