Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Computers In Korean

It's so bloody hard to use the computers here. They are all in Korean, and I can't work out how to turn them into English. There are bits and pieces I can do just from pure memory, of click here click there. But little more than that. It's no good, we'll have to get on and learn Korean.

This weekend we tried finding the E-Mart, the alternative supermarket to the Lotte Mart that we used for our shopping. Mr. Ho had reccomended it to us, and said it wasn't too far from where we lived. So Saturday we set off walking towards the university, where we were told it was close to. Under and over monsterously huge fly-overs, across 6-8 lane super-highways cutting through the suburbs of Suwon, we eventually found the university. No E-Mart though.

We carried on walking, soon realising that we'd gone wrong somewhere. Coming across the railway line, which cuts through the middle of the city, and I had our bearings. A map at the bus stop (with a YOU ARE HERE arrow) confirmed that we were actually near to the Lotte Mart. Having done almost a huge circle around the north west quadrant of the city. At least we knew where we were, and headed for the bright lights and flashing neon that we recognised.

Even the 4-5 block area that is the shopping district nearest to us, surrounded by the imposing tower blocks that make up the suburban landscape of Suwon, is a multi-story oasis of neon and Korean script. Shop upon shop, school upon school, mini tower blosks (mini compared to the apartments around them), crammed with private schools, cyber cafes, hair-dressers, bakeries, 7/11's, etc...

Must sign-off, tech here to check the PC...

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