By So who knows the location of where this picture was taken?
Korea Finder Leader’s Board:
- Leon Laporte – 4
- Kushibo – 3
- Chickenhead – 2
- Cloying Odor -1
- Regulate – 1
- Max – 1
- Cloying Odor – 1
The person with the most points at the end of the year of the weekly Korea Finder contest will be rewarded with a book or DVD of their choice from Amazon.com. Also note that if you have a picture that you think would make a great Korea Finder feel free to send it in to me.
Note that the Korea Finders are posted every Thursday at 0300 PST.
She hasn’t seen...
3:08 am on June 2nd, 2011 1
상운사?
3:33 am on June 2nd, 2011 2
화암사
3:37 am on June 2nd, 2011 3
Whoops. 화엄사.
3:49 am on June 2nd, 2011 4
The rock itself is 수바위.
4:04 am on June 2nd, 2011 5
Damn, lost track of time today; sleeping on the switch.
Congratulations Kushibo.
4:18 am on June 2nd, 2011 6
I had to hold my iPhone out over a cliff’s edge from the summit of Mauna Loa, at just the right angle facing Hilo, to pick up a signal long enough to do this one.
4:56 am on June 2nd, 2011 7
Don’t lean too far next time…
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5:30 am on June 2nd, 2011 8
Yes Kushibo got the correct answer. This picture was taken at Hwaamsa Temple outside of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. I am honored that Kushibo is willing to hang off the cliff of the world’s largest volcano in terms of volume just to answer a Korea Finder.
4:48 pm on June 2nd, 2011 9
Note that the Korea Finders are posted every Thursday at 0300 PST.
Why PST?
5:37 pm on June 2nd, 2011 10
GI Korea wrote:
I may have been exaggerating just a bit for effect. But only just a bit.
But back in 2008, I actually did have to do almost exactly that at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon when my employer in Korea sent me something that had to be done immediately, and the only signal was from the South Rim. I was literally sticking my hand over the edge of the canyon at the Grand Canyon Lodge to maximize my signal so that I could continue a lengthy phone conversation and then send a large file.
Hardyandtiny wrote:
I suppose you’d rather have him do it every Thursday at 1900 KST?
By the way, isn’t it 0300 PDT, not PST? Will it always be 0300 whatever the time is in the Pacific Time Zone, PST or PDT?
5:43 pm on June 2nd, 2011 11
hardyandtiny, the times for the Korea Finders has been something that has been ongoing discussion for many years and 0300PST seems to be a good time that works for everyone reading the site from North America and Korea.
7:18 pm on June 2nd, 2011 12
03:00 PST = 11:00 UTC
7:41 pm on June 2nd, 2011 13
In addition to the PST I think you should add the KST.
Is the above picture taken at the temple or near the temple?
8:03 pm on June 2nd, 2011 14
1100 UTC is 2000 KST. I believe it’s 1000 UTC, right?
8:20 pm on June 2nd, 2011 15
The thing is that GI Korea meant 0300 PDT, not PST. That would be 0200 PST, so we’re talking about 1900 KST.
9:20 pm on June 2nd, 2011 16
Time zones and daylight time are confusing in a global blog. UTC today! UTC tomorrow! UTC forever!
9:40 pm on June 2nd, 2011 17
The problem with UTC is that if it isn’t in your region, it becomes too abstract to really utilize easily. In the US and East Asia, we’re so far removed from Greenwich Mean Time that it feels irrelevant.
I think if GI Korea were to write the time in PDT/PST (depending on the time of year) and KST, then all would be well.
10:50 pm on June 2nd, 2011 18
GMT should be the standard of all time on the internet. Nothing else makes sense. If it’s good enough for ships, weather services, the space station, communications facilities, military networks etc etc, well, it’s good enough for me. It’s the de facto excepted global standard and GI would do well to force us to use it so it becomes less abstract. It’s not like he’s changing the time constantly. It’s 1900 in Korea. Got it!
Sign me GMT+9
11:36 pm on June 2nd, 2011 19
1000 GMT = 1900 KST
Okay, time to create an alert on the phone.
6:01 am on June 4th, 2011 20
Gents I will make the correction on the time on the next Korea Finder. Also HardyandTiny it is still early enough in the Korea Finder competition to win this thing considering how no one has jumped to a big lead yet this year. Good luck!