Picture of the Day: Seoul Sunrise

Tags: Seoul

• guitard
  3:11 pm on October 24th, 2011 1

  Over at Robert Koehler’s Travelblog he has some beautiful photos posted of the sunrise over Seoul from Mt. Namsan

  Isn’t that Namsan Tower in the back on the right? If so, this pic couldn’t have been taken from Namsan.

  This is a bit of a shot in the dark because I can’t remember if you can see it Namsan from there – but was it perhaps taken from Pal-gak-dang (팔각당) up on Buk-ak-san (북악산)?

• guitard
  3:13 pm on October 24th, 2011 2

  I suppose I should have first followed the link – the photo was taken from Mt. Ansan.

• setnaffa
  4:29 pm on October 24th, 2011 3

  Makes me “homesick” for Seoul… I can almost hear the vegetable sellers and etc. in my old neighborhood…

• Robert
  5:11 pm on October 24th, 2011 4

  Thanks for the link, sir. Glad you liked the photos.

• Conway Eastwood
  7:55 pm on October 24th, 2011 5

  Is that building with the ROK flag a prison? I’m sure I’ve seen it in movies and T.V. dramas.

• guitard
  9:48 pm on October 24th, 2011 6

  setnaffa wrote:

  Makes me “homesick” for Seoul… I can almost hear the vegetable sellers and etc. in my old neighborhood.

  The vegetable sellers have gone hi-tech in recent years – and although you still “hear” them – they all use recordings. So it’s not really the same…

• Robert
  10:10 pm on October 24th, 2011 7

  Conway Eastwood — Yes, the place with the ROK flag is a prison. Or more precisely, was a prison. It’s now a museum dedicated to the Korean independence movement:

  http://visitkorea.or.kr/enu/SI/SI_EN_3_1_1_1.jsp?cid=268143

• Leon LaPorte
  12:54 am on October 25th, 2011 8

  6. There’s still a couple old timers up here in TDC with the cart who actually do the sellers chant. They’re not really super regular but they make their appearances from time to time. Much less annoying than the super megaphone recordings.

• GI Korea
  3:29 am on October 25th, 2011 9

  @1 – That was a typo on my part. The picture was taken from Mt. Ansan as the caption on the photo shows. The correction has been made.

• John in CA
  9:51 am on October 25th, 2011 10

  #5
  It was. Now it’s being turned into a Prison Museum. I read that the surrounding area is open but not the prison building itself.

  I believe that prison has a long history of being used by japanese, the dictators of SK etc.

• Jimbo
  9:36 pm on October 25th, 2011 11

  Pretty

• GI Korea
  5:14 am on October 26th, 2011 12

  For those interested in Soedaemun Prison it is a museum and is a very interesting place to visit despite its over the top anti-Japanese viewpoint.

 

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