Ok all you blog fans, it is I, Gar... As we have had a bit of a quiet spell here in the Dags (that is my lovely short form for Daegu) other than work and the occasional trip downtown for the night, I felt maybe it was necessary to show you all a little bit about what everyday life here in Korea is like! Aside from the post Jay put up about the crazy shopping cart driving at Costco (and really, all driving for that matter) we have noticed a few more interesting/strange things about our existence day to day.
This whole idea stemmed from what is happening outside my house as I write... my neighbour is moving. It sounds regular enough, but of course there is a little bit of a Korean twist on the process. Due to the fact that we live in a high-rise (like pretty much every other person in Korea) moving can be a bit of a pain... 14 floors is a long way to move heavy things, especially when the elevator is the size of maybe a small bathroom. I mean you can fit maybe 7 people in the elevator, that is if you are feeling adventurous! (it does tend to feel lik
e the cable might let go at any time even when you are the only one in it) So they have invented a way to move things down a long ladder type thingy that has a platform attached to it! I know that is not a very useful description so I decided that I would be "that crazy foreigner" who takes pics of people moving!
e the cable might let go at any time even when you are the only one in it) So they have invented a way to move things down a long ladder type thingy that has a platform attached to it! I know that is not a very useful description so I decided that I would be "that crazy foreigner" who takes pics of people moving! Ok so then once they have loaded up the little platform thingy it moves down the long ladder to a waiting truck! I am pretty much amazed by the ingenuity of this invention (even if Jay wasn't nearly as excited as I was!)
3 comments:
I love your blog!! Its my new favourite bed time reading. And Gar, I think that the moving mechanism is very interesting!!
Dawn
Holy Cow, it doesn't even look like the stuff is tied down on the platform. Today is Wed. Jan. 30, 08and the wind is in sane today pretty much everywhere in Southern Ontario. That stuff they are moving in the pic would not last 10seconds today here, it would be in North Korea by now. Vey nice pictures by the way.
Papa Tom
Hillarious!!!! I think I'll get a contraption like that when we move - wouldn't the boys have fun watching that while they sit on the porch drinking beer and giving directions!!
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