Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Yongdusan Park, Nampo-dong, and Namp underground shopping center

Today I picked up my camera from the repair shop in Nampo-dong before work. It didn't take as long as I thought it would so I had some time before work. I had a little bit of time to go the park near and take some pictures. Yongdusan park, this is a pretty nice park on top of a pretty big hill, it might be a small mountain, I don't know. There is a tower at the park that I haven't gone up in yet. I am waiting for a clear day to go up it since it cost around 5 dollars. There is also a small modern art exhibit and a model ship exhibit. The modern art exhibit was free and it was a photography exhibit. The model ship exhibit cost money so I didn't go in. On my way down from the park there was some creepy old guy walking down the stairs and grabbing girls hands who work going up the escalators (escalators mostly only go up in Busan, there are exceptions).

If I had my camera fixed earlier I would have been able to take pictures when I was around this area Saturday. They were putting on a play in Yongdusan park with traditional drums and an annoying sounding horn. There were quite a bit of people watching the free play. There was an older man next to me who was dancing to the drums and horn. After doing it for a while I noticed he was doing the same actions as the actors.

The pictures below are of Yongdusan Park, Nampo-dong, and the underground shopping area connecting two subway stations. For the past month I have been visiting this area every Saturday and I don't think I've seen it all but it's a nice are with lots of restaurants a couple movie theaters and it is a good place to walk.

A Buddha statue at the bottom of the stairs to the park


An exercise park about half way up the stairs (I didn't ask the guy to smile)



An engraved stone


Flower Clock


A bell they only ring once a year, it had some etchings on it some I tried to get a shot of that.



A dragon.


A bust of Some Guy


Commander of Pigeons


Yongdusan Tower


A reading room and Instruments of the World exhibit










Some pictures of Nampo-Dong








Some pictures of the underground shopping district, It's just like a mini-mall.

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