Beautiful!! I’ve a question tho as a Korean I never understood so many Europeans come to Korea and Japan to teach English. We literally have so many Europeans now living in my street so i dont undertstand why not go to Africa or Syria to teach English?/
Because Korea is more developed, I would imagine. And Syria has state department advisories as a dangerous location for Americans to travel. Teaching English is a good way to travel abroad and not have it cost a lot, since they have guaranteed employment in their host country.
The program my daughter is on does all of the hard work in finding a place to live, arranging a vehicle, work visa, all of those complications for a young person living abroad.
I think Koreans needs to ban English like Chinese did. Chinese ask all the foreigners to learn mandarin or Cantonese if they want to work and live in the country apart from few English teachers.
I’m sorry you feel that way. Cultural exchange programs such as the JET programme in Japan, and whatever equivalent there is in Korea are wonderful programs which promote and encourage understanding amongst nations. And the world can certainly use more understanding instead of less. I appreciate the perspective, though.
It’s busy and crowded, but in a good way. No pushing, no aggressive behavior, just trade done as it has been done for centuries. Like in past times, many of the goods for sale are from China, but unlike before they’re now mostly made of plastic. Fortunately, there’s still lots of spices, textiles and more local handicraft, too. I really enjoyed it.
They see so few non-locals there, that ripping off strangers hasn’t really developed into a thing. If you see someone else pay whatever for something, you can easily get that same thing for that same price. Otherwise lots of things have a fixed and posted price. Other items can be bargained for. Or you can just ask what the price is, and they’ll let you continue on your way without any further discussion if you don’t like the price. Then you can ask for the price at another stall selling the same thing, and quickly figure out if you’re being quoted a reasonable price or not. I was generally able to buy stuff at prices much lower than I was expecting.
My Grandma was born there and left when she was around 8 or 9 and then returned in her teens before getting married and moving abroad. She always said how beautiful it was, I honestly have no idea, but she was convincing
Looks good, but I would tone down the sharpness. The phone camera may have it on automatically to make the image pop more, but I find its always a bit too strong.
Consider turning your camera phones raw mode on and get the shot using a manual setup, and then add the sharpness yourself later so that it stays a little more smooth.
I know, I’m from London. This looks like a photo taken from the toilets on the tube though. Strange choice to submit it to a photography community imo, but whatever floats your boat.
Actually, they should, I went there a couple year ago, and I remember the iconic running character one changing from time to time. I don’t recall if it’s an animation or a slide, but I am pretty sure it changed.
Also, I can’t imagine those other boards are all NOT animated.
Something is weird here.
The picture quality is astonishing though, that’s for sure…
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