2010.05.20. 10:30 photo by Gary
I had bike trip for 10days after resiging the first job I got when I graudated. It was kind of boring and I decided to quit it for better life. Now, I am not sure wheter the resign made me better or not. However, what I can tell surely about my experiece I had had after quiting is I have been growing since that time.
I had been in Philipippne for 2 months and been to several countreies; USA, Germany, China, India and Thiland. the visiting contries were not for private jourey but businees trips only except Thiland. Before having oversea experience, whenever I met people who already have been to abroad I envied and it seems really big experice, which these days it is just the same with domastic trip.
Above picture I took on the way heading Cheonan-Si from Pyungteak-Si where curretly US army had moved to contained area name, "성환읍, Seonghwan-Ub" which means small than town.
*for your information, In Korea address, you can see "Do", "Si", "Gun", "Ub", along the order, Do means province, Si is City, Gun is town, Ub is smaller than Gun, Dong is block. so for example of a Korea address, "194-3 XX-Dong, Seonghwan-Ub, XX-Gun, XX-Si, Korea". One thing you should know is we have changed the express way for addresss currently so tat also we use similar form to USA way as well; so there are anoter way like "194 Seonghwan-Ro, XX-Si, Korea" which make people misunderstood the area. Because with previous form we can guess the area location based on the "Ub" and "dong" however now a day we cannot do it due to "Ro" system. Ro means "Road"
Anyhow, in the picture, the bridge name is "신가교, ShinGaGyo" and under the bridge there were an cannel for watering on farm. and the meaning of 신가교, 신-新 가-假 교-橋, is new temporary bridge. It is a little strange however, as it is small we can name it 'temporary' although it is not temporary. But as there is no Chinese words, it may be the area name,, then the chinese words should be changed in terms of meaning and shape.
the point I want to tell you on this picture is the sign of "SLOW" looks like that!!! :-) "천천히-SLOW"
then next time, I will come back with other pictures..
P.S. when I do googling with "Korea picture", half of them are North Korea and others are very old type and war-imaged picture.. So I posted normal Korea view when I took while doing bike trip in May 2010. I will do this post very SLOWLY...
:-)
Gary 2015.
