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As seen on (streaming) TV (part 1)
Jun. 12th, 2024 02:46 pmThe point of registering for Wordpress was to make it easy to post photos while traveling (ie away from the laptop, for one thing). Once I actually was away from home, I could hardly get anything to work, so here I am.
Flo and I have been in South Korea for almost a week. She is going home tomorrow, but I am staying longer, trying to amortize the astounding carbon use of flying all those hours and miles. I’m in a bit of panic mode, because it turns out that my navigation apps (Naver is the best for this region of the world) only work when there is Wi-Fi. My phone is apparently too old for the 5g to be adequate for navigation, although regular searching is OK. My plan for when I am on my own is to write down careful directions before leaving the room and then use my paper street map and the subway maps in the station, and allow a couple of hours a day for being lost.
Am I able to get along in Korean? No, but fortunately I mostly don’t have to. . A high point in Korean conversation may have been yesterday. Another hiker on a trail slipped and fell. The whole exchange, translated to English
Me: Are you OK?
Her: Yes.
This rest of this post and planned subsequent ones is about life reflecting art, or that some things from KDramas are based on real life.
Useful categories?
One of my favorite recurring things in dramas:
While many people live in high rise apartment buildings at all income and comfort levels, there are still lots of two or three story brick buildings with flat rooftops, on which pot gardens grow and laundry is hung out to dry. It’s a real thing. So far I have at least four photos of this in different locations. Have one
I have not researched filming locations, but here are scenes from two real ones
View from the top of Namsan mountain in Seoul. This does not show the thousands of locks on fences, which is a gimmick there.
Also doesn’t show that I lost my prescription sunglasses there. Yes, I went back to look. Insert your own frowny face here. Or squinty face, because on non-rainy days the sun is very bright. Yesterday I bought expensive non-prescription sunglasses of the type used by some runners, which wrap around but in a sleek way, not an old person way (although I am an old person).
Commemoration sculpture installation to “comfort women.” I don’t want to call it a memorial, because some of them are still alive. I had seen people looking contemplatively at them in an episode of “Tomorrow” (2022). I recognized them right away, and stood silently in tribute (and was a tourist, and took pictures).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women
Stairs. Maybe not these exact stairs, but close enough.
That took a long time. I don’t know when I’ll post the next installment.
Flo and I have been in South Korea for almost a week. She is going home tomorrow, but I am staying longer, trying to amortize the astounding carbon use of flying all those hours and miles. I’m in a bit of panic mode, because it turns out that my navigation apps (Naver is the best for this region of the world) only work when there is Wi-Fi. My phone is apparently too old for the 5g to be adequate for navigation, although regular searching is OK. My plan for when I am on my own is to write down careful directions before leaving the room and then use my paper street map and the subway maps in the station, and allow a couple of hours a day for being lost.
Am I able to get along in Korean? No, but fortunately I mostly don’t have to. . A high point in Korean conversation may have been yesterday. Another hiker on a trail slipped and fell. The whole exchange, translated to English
Me: Are you OK?
Her: Yes.
This rest of this post and planned subsequent ones is about life reflecting art, or that some things from KDramas are based on real life.
Useful categories?
One of my favorite recurring things in dramas:
While many people live in high rise apartment buildings at all income and comfort levels, there are still lots of two or three story brick buildings with flat rooftops, on which pot gardens grow and laundry is hung out to dry. It’s a real thing. So far I have at least four photos of this in different locations. Have one
I have not researched filming locations, but here are scenes from two real ones
View from the top of Namsan mountain in Seoul. This does not show the thousands of locks on fences, which is a gimmick there.
Also doesn’t show that I lost my prescription sunglasses there. Yes, I went back to look. Insert your own frowny face here. Or squinty face, because on non-rainy days the sun is very bright. Yesterday I bought expensive non-prescription sunglasses of the type used by some runners, which wrap around but in a sleek way, not an old person way (although I am an old person).
Commemoration sculpture installation to “comfort women.” I don’t want to call it a memorial, because some of them are still alive. I had seen people looking contemplatively at them in an episode of “Tomorrow” (2022). I recognized them right away, and stood silently in tribute (and was a tourist, and took pictures).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women
Stairs. Maybe not these exact stairs, but close enough.
That took a long time. I don’t know when I’ll post the next installment.
