Rice paddy fields on the way to Daegu
Seomun Market, Daegu, South Korea - 1st July 2012
It's the second weekend in Korea, whilst working at Samsung. Saturday is spent working in the hotel as the weather's a bit rubbish and it's raining outside. However, Sunday improves a bit and so Nosher heads off to Gumi station to catch a train down the line to the city of Daegu, some 40 minutes away. The primary focus whilst in Daegu is a visit to Seomun Market - Korea's largest traditional market, home to a somewhat staggering 4,000 shops. At the end of the following week, the lads from Samsung take Nosher out for an excellent good-bye session in a Korean restaurant where they proceed to demonstrate most of the local forms of alcohol: Hite beer, Soju (vodka) and Makali (rice wine), or various mixtures of all three. Nosher's plan is to stay up all night afterwards and catch the 6.30am bus to the airport, however the internet's broken and the TV's awful so it's bed by 2am and up again at 5 for the 25-hour trip home.
next album: TouchType does Bletchley Park, Bletchley, Bedfordshire - 20th July 2012
previous album: Working at Samsung, and Geumosan Mountain, Gumi, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Korea - 24th June 2012
A highly disorganised shoe sale occurs in Daegu
Clothing shops in Seomun Market
A fruit seller
The covered lanes of the market
Another clothes shop
A creaky old bicycle and a pile of garlic
Outside the market
Covered outdoor sections
More fruit
Back inside the market
Thousands of tiny dried fishies
A load of raffia
People mill around
Some dude sells insects or something
A tomato seller in action
Lunch: deep fried sausages wrapped in bean curd
The 'food corridor'
The deep-fried sausage stall
Someone rides a moped around
Another food shop waits for customers
A fire engine waits, in case
The Chilli lady
An octopus looks like a facehugger from Alien
Another moped pootles off
More fruit and veg
Sign over the main gate of Seomun Market
Amusing cartoon sign
A woman sells a range of vegetables
An old guy waits
The entrance to the market
A clock and a cross
Side-street shack
Shacks and towers
A temple on a hill
Daegu First Presbyterian Church
Tower blocks
Looking out over the roofs of Daegu
A woman crosses a stripy orange speed bump
A US missionary house, built in the Californian style
A tour group mills around
A cool tiled mural
More tiles with stuff on
Another curious mix of buildings
Daegu expressway and the Hyundai department store
Ornate door on a house
Vegetables in an allotment
Colourful wall art
A couple of chairs sit around
A curious blue hut with a peep-hole in the side
A bit of Korean dereliction and rare graffiti
A row of shops
Another shuttered shack
More fruit on the street
Building works on a Daegu street
On the bridge
A subway shop unit
Pedestrian street in Daegu
A sleeping homeless dude with his world in a cart
The escalator down to the station
A suburban K-Rail train
Daegu's suburban station
It's the party carriage on a Korean train
A beaten-up train passes through Daegu station
The 16-carriage-long KTX train speeds past
Back at Gumi railway station
The tunnel-like entrance to Gumi station
A rare 1930s building
The tunnel entrance to the station
Gumi street life, and a 1930s building
The side street down to the retail park
Barbed wire
A wasteland car park
The back of the Gumi Century hotel
Standing water
Nosher's dinner, in the restaurant down the road
The light of the eMart is like the eye of Sauron
Down the street from the hotel
The lads take Nosher out for a feed
Nosher and Tae Kyoung
A beer is inspected
Doing the 'victory' sign seems big in Korea
Nosher's got a shot of Soju
Chips roams around outside for a bit
Nosher and Chips
Some roast pork appears
The lads have a moment
Chips waves
There's a 'cheers' moment
The bag contains a fire escape, on the eight floor
Nosher's desk for the fortnight
The hotel room
Gumi bus station at 6am
Inside Incheon airport
A Korean Air plane on the wet apron
Classical music in the airport
An Asiana Airlines comes on to the stand
A visit from the royal family is re-enacted
The Korean royal family
Tourists take photos
Traditional dress
The entourage moves off through the airport
Something that Apple hasn't sued yet
Another plane waits on the wet apron
Back at Diss railway station
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Rice paddy fields on the way to Daegu
Rice paddy fields on the way to Daegu
A highly disorganised shoe sale occurs in Daegu
Clothing shops in Seomun Market
A fruit seller
The covered lanes of the market
Another clothes shop
A creaky old bicycle and a pile of garlic
Outside the market
Covered outdoor sections
More fruit
Back inside the market
Thousands of tiny dried fishies
A load of raffia
People mill around
Some dude sells insects or something
A tomato seller in action
Lunch: deep fried sausages wrapped in bean curd
The 'food corridor'
The deep-fried sausage stall
Someone rides a moped around
Another food shop waits for customers
A fire engine waits, in case
The Chilli lady
An octopus looks like a facehugger from Alien
Another moped pootles off
More fruit and veg
Sign over the main gate of Seomun Market
Amusing cartoon sign
A woman sells a range of vegetables
An old guy waits
The entrance to the market
A clock and a cross
Side-street shack
Shacks and towers
A temple on a hill
Daegu First Presbyterian Church
Tower blocks
Looking out over the roofs of Daegu
A woman crosses a stripy orange speed bump
A US missionary house, built in the Californian style
A tour group mills around
A cool tiled mural
More tiles with stuff on
Another curious mix of buildings
Daegu expressway and the Hyundai department store
Ornate door on a house
Vegetables in an allotment
Colourful wall art
A couple of chairs sit around
A curious blue hut with a peep-hole in the side
A bit of Korean dereliction and rare graffiti
A row of shops
Another shuttered shack
More fruit on the street
Building works on a Daegu street
On the bridge
A subway shop unit
Pedestrian street in Daegu
A sleeping homeless dude with his world in a cart
The escalator down to the station
A suburban K-Rail train
Daegu's suburban station
It's the party carriage on a Korean train
A beaten-up train passes through Daegu station
The 16-carriage-long KTX train speeds past
Back at Gumi railway station
The tunnel-like entrance to Gumi station
A rare 1930s building
The tunnel entrance to the station
Gumi street life, and a 1930s building
The side street down to the retail park
Barbed wire
A wasteland car park
The back of the Gumi Century hotel
Standing water
Nosher's dinner, in the restaurant down the road
The light of the eMart is like the eye of Sauron
Down the street from the hotel
The lads take Nosher out for a feed
Nosher and Tae Kyoung
A beer is inspected
Doing the 'victory' sign seems big in Korea
Nosher's got a shot of Soju
Chips roams around outside for a bit
Nosher and Chips
Some roast pork appears
The lads have a moment
Chips waves
There's a 'cheers' moment
The bag contains a fire escape, on the eight floor
Nosher's desk for the fortnight
The hotel room
Gumi bus station at 6am
Inside Incheon airport
A Korean Air plane on the wet apron
Classical music in the airport
An Asiana Airlines comes on to the stand
A visit from the royal family is re-enacted
The Korean royal family
Tourists take photos
Traditional dress
The entourage moves off through the airport
Something that Apple hasn't sued yet
Another plane waits on the wet apron
Back at Diss railway station