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Tuesday, September 09, 2014

Woncheon Lake : just like heaven :)

Today is a day after Chuseok (चुसक) which is a major festival in Korea. This festival is actually related to the harvest time (फसल कटई) in old days of farming.

Today we went to Woncheon Lake which is 1.5 or 2 km from our home.

This lake - which was a secluded place a few years ago - has become a major tourist attraction after development of park and apartment complexes in the vicinity.

Above is first shot from my camera : the shot was in direction opposite of lake. It shows the cloudy day, which was sunny also.

The below is the shot of the lake and children playing at water pool at 4:30 pm today

Coffee shops next to lake were buzzing with customers.

Below is view of sky and apartments behind coffee shop line.

Below are some other nature shots

Below is apartment building under construction next to the lake. If you look carefully, you can see a bird and a plane flying in the sky.

This area felt like a heaven probably because light rays of setting sun made everything look beautiful.

Below shots are from the side of lake opposite to coffee shop line.

Wow. the greenery !

It is exercise time for some.

The sun is setting behind the cloud.

Golden lights of setting sun which are falling on below apartment buildings.

In the night

Friday, July 11, 2014

Suwon (수원,सुवॅन,水原) : Introducing a Korean City (Part 1)

Suwon (水原) is a city approx 50km south-east of Seoul (the capital of Korea).

Head-quarter of Samsung Electronics is in in this city since it started in 1969 here.

( Samsung - 三星 - means three star in Korean-Chinese)

सुवॅन (水原) कोरिया के केपिटल सउल से 50km साऊथ-ईस्ट में बसा शहर है |

सामसँग इलेक्ट्रॉनिक कंपनी का हेड-क्वार्टर इसी शहर में है |

(सामसँग - 三星 - चीनी-कोरियन शब्द है , जिसका मतलब है : तीन तारा )

Year 1969: Samsung Electronics complex surrounded by agriculture land.
Right-hand (east) side area is known as Yeong-Tong (영통, यंग-थोंग),
left (west) side area is known as Maetan-Dong (매탄-동, मेथान-दोंग).
top upper (north) side area is Woncheon lake site.

But above scene is of 1969. Suwon city is developing and expanding rapidly since the days Samsung Electronics became a major player in world market.

ऊपर की फोटो 1969 की है| सामसँग इलेक्ट्रॉनिक्स के बड़ी कंपनी बनने के बाद से यह शहर बड़ी तेजी से बढ़ और फ़ैल रहा है |

a view of Maetan-Dong area , starting 500m left from above complex.

Another view of Maetan-Dong (मेथान-दोंग) area : this view covers distance 0.5 km to 1.5 km in left of above Samsung Complex

A view of Samsung Electronics complex (and beyond YeongTong) itself from left Maetan-Dong side :
This complex lies behind the road visible in the photo. The two buildings on top-left corner of photo are high-rise (named R3 and R4) buildings of Samsung Electronics.

Maetan-3-Dong area ,'R3 building ' is visible at end of road.

Shops of Maetan-3-Dong area

Agriculture lands of Suwon are fast converting into high-rise buildings.

सुवन के खेत तेजी से 20-25 मंजिले बिल्डिंगों में बदलते जा रहे हैं |

A view from Gwonseon-Dong . High-rise building R3 and R4 of Samsung Eletronics complex are visible on right center of photo.

This road-link to Dongtan (दोंगथान) did not exist 7 years ago

8 years ago, the 3 km long road stretch from Mangpo station (of YeongTong) to Suwon Bus Terminal (and then to Suwon Railway Station) had only fields and almost no building on left-hand side of road.

8 साल पहले इस शहर के (यंग-थोंग के) मांगपो मेट्रो स्टेशन से सुवन बस टर्मिनल तक की सड़क (जो आगे सुवन रेलवे स्टेशन पहुँचती है ) के बाएँ तरफ सिर्फ खेत दीखते थे |

road from Mangpo station of YeongTong to Suwon Bus Terminal: left side of road was full of agriculture lands 8 years ago

The tall buildings seen lying in the fields are under construction : some are complete, others are

Below is the railway-station of Suwon.

नीचे सुवन का रेलवे स्टेशन है : कोरियन रेलवे स्टेशन को यॅक (역) बोलते हैं |

The traffic circle in front of Suwon Railway Station.
Paldal-mun area is behind the hill.

Woncheon Lake: These amazing lightings and buildings came into existence only two years ago.

Jangan-Mun, जांगान दरवाज़ा (長安門) , the Suwon city was bounded by these gates and walls in old days (since 1800 AD).

in progress.

in progress

Sunday, May 11, 2014

Jeju to Suwon by Ferry and Car

It was Monday morning of 05 May 2014, and we had to be at Jeju international port by 7 am to put our car in ferry. Our navigator estimated that this journey from our stay in Seogwipo to be of approx 2 hours. So we aimed to start by 4:50 am from Seogwipo, which is next to sea in the south.

We woke up at 4 am and we were ready by 4:45 am. We had purchased some Ramyan (राम्यन) cup noodles day before from the e-mart; we added hot water to these cup noodles before starting the journey at 5 am.

It took only a little more than 1 hour to reach Jeju port. There, we ate Ramyan noodles, drank some coffee. We people wanted to prepare tea, but no milk was available in the shops of port at that time.

We took our car to cargo area to park it in first floor of the ship at 6:45 am. After that, we started our sight-seeing of the harbor area.

One of the ropes which is holding our ship.

These motorcycle and car guys are waiting to park their vehicles in the ship.

Ship is parked just next to the floor. Another ship is visible at distance.

Cargo loading area

Bow of the ship. This is designed to reduce the resistance of the hull cutting through the water and is designed to be tall enough to prevent water from washing over top of it.

Another ship bound to the shore

Jeju port is international port, and they do the immigration check. There was separate line for foreigners taking the ferry, and it was good for us because it meant easy and early way out of passenger queue.

PS: According to wiki page on Jeju, mainland Koreans considered Jeju people foreigners, before foundation of modern Korea in 1945, had to suppress the uprising of 1948 by death of tens of thousands and torture and rape of many Jeju people. Jeju had matriarchal society and their language was distinct enough from Korean language according to linguists.

Finally, we boarded on our ship at 8:30 am. We met same set of crew members whom we met while coming to Jeju from Wando 4 days ago.