Around Andong
I emptied my camera's memory card recently and thought I should post them here for people to see if they are interested. This is just the first batch in and around the city. Hopefully I will get more up here before too long. You can click on the picture to get a large version. There are 22 photos in this set, so be sure to scroll down to see them all. Have a look. I hope you enjoy viewing them.
I was walking around town and just had to take a picture of this sign. What this place is, is a karaoke room. The Korean writing is "sue-we-tue noh-rae bang." Nohrae being the word for song or sing, and bang meaning room. The thing is, I think they probably meant to say "sweet" not "suite." (Maybe not) But "mugic"? Well the 'Z' sound is a puzzle for most Koreans. They have trouble pronouncing it and usually represent it with their 'J' sound. The English 'G' can be hard or soft, and thus we get "mugic" instead of "music."
This a small dam on the Naktong river. The main hydro-power dam is behind in the background.
An old style abandoned house near the river.
For some reason I seem to be taking pictures of doors these days. The same old house.
This is another old house nearby the first, but it is maintained because it has some significant value which I can't seem to remember now.
A doorway at the second house.
The veranda of one of the main buildings. More doors.
One view of the main building/living quarters.
They were building a pavilion in the downtown area to hang a bell.
A wider shot of the pavilion.
These spiders are everywhere in the summer and fall. Their abdomens can get pretty big, even bigger and fatter then the last digit on your pinkie.
I took a walk through the market. Here are some of the fresh fish. Don't ask me what kind.
These are several different varieties of Korean kimchi, basically pickled or fresh vegetables with lots of red pepper paste and garlic, but there is a lot more to kimchi than just that. Go here if you are interested.
Some dried fish. Yes, this is really eaten here.
Here is the fresh fruit area. All pretty much grown somewhere in Korea.
Here are some tiny dried fish of different varieties and sizes.
They put these octopus in a pan of ice water and it seems to make them curl up like this. Whether it actually kills them or not, I don't know. Probably not considering Koreans' desire for fresh seafood.
Some red chili peppers drying in the sun, on the street, with all the car exhaust helping to flavor things.
I am not much of a people photographer, but sometimes I try. The light was low and this little guy was moving, so it is a little blurry. He was helping grandpa carry the drying sesame stalks back from the garden plot.
Just a little old lady who happened to cross my path.
An old gentleman waiting for the bus.
Sunset in Andong.
Pretty nice sometimes, actually.
Thanks for taking a look. If you want, you are welcome to leave a comment. Just click the comment link below.
I was walking around town and just had to take a picture of this sign. What this place is, is a karaoke room. The Korean writing is "sue-we-tue noh-rae bang." Nohrae being the word for song or sing, and bang meaning room. The thing is, I think they probably meant to say "sweet" not "suite." (Maybe not) But "mugic"? Well the 'Z' sound is a puzzle for most Koreans. They have trouble pronouncing it and usually represent it with their 'J' sound. The English 'G' can be hard or soft, and thus we get "mugic" instead of "music."
This a small dam on the Naktong river. The main hydro-power dam is behind in the background.
An old style abandoned house near the river.
For some reason I seem to be taking pictures of doors these days. The same old house.
This is another old house nearby the first, but it is maintained because it has some significant value which I can't seem to remember now.
A doorway at the second house.
The veranda of one of the main buildings. More doors.
One view of the main building/living quarters.
They were building a pavilion in the downtown area to hang a bell.
A wider shot of the pavilion.
These spiders are everywhere in the summer and fall. Their abdomens can get pretty big, even bigger and fatter then the last digit on your pinkie.
I took a walk through the market. Here are some of the fresh fish. Don't ask me what kind.
These are several different varieties of Korean kimchi, basically pickled or fresh vegetables with lots of red pepper paste and garlic, but there is a lot more to kimchi than just that. Go here if you are interested.
Some dried fish. Yes, this is really eaten here.
Here is the fresh fruit area. All pretty much grown somewhere in Korea.
Here are some tiny dried fish of different varieties and sizes.
They put these octopus in a pan of ice water and it seems to make them curl up like this. Whether it actually kills them or not, I don't know. Probably not considering Koreans' desire for fresh seafood.
Some red chili peppers drying in the sun, on the street, with all the car exhaust helping to flavor things.
I am not much of a people photographer, but sometimes I try. The light was low and this little guy was moving, so it is a little blurry. He was helping grandpa carry the drying sesame stalks back from the garden plot.
Just a little old lady who happened to cross my path.
An old gentleman waiting for the bus.
Sunset in Andong.
Pretty nice sometimes, actually.
Thanks for taking a look. If you want, you are welcome to leave a comment. Just click the comment link below.
posted by Alimamo | 11:51 PM
7 Comments:
Man, this is korea? I thought all was high-tech (just kidding). I don't see those this "pictures" in my country. How different is the world, so far away.
Yeah!this is Korea ,my country,the land of morning calm.I am familiar with the pictures,so I always try to find the differences from other country's picturs posted by Robert.
It is quite natural that one feel interested in the differences from his owns.
What great pictures! You are getting really good at this stuff.
I'm thinking of doing a series of door pics - with your permission of course. I'll do my best to take some in Costa Rica.
By coincidence the "old house" shown here happens to be the ancestral temple of my close relative.
I have tried without success to encourage the restoration of this structure.
It might also be mentioned that the "sue" and "we" (romanizations) shown here are only a rough representation of the spoken Korean syllables, and when pronounced by most Westerners, come out sounding rather tortured to the Korean ear.
True Noyoung, and those particular ones aren't even good romanizations. I have never much cared for the romanization systems used in Korea. Generally, if need be, I just write things the way I hear them. This time I was just trying to get something close to the sound for folks back home who have, in all likelihood, probably never even heard much Korean.
The ancestral temple I commented about above, had undergone renovations, finally, when we visited in October of 2018.
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