Heavy rains in Daehanminguk...

...but we were fortunate to be away from the worst of it. My Lady Friend and I took advantage of an extra day off and traveled to the shores of the Yellow Sea. A few days earlier, she had proposed that we venture to some caves near the East Sea coast, but the combined bus and train journey would've taken several hours.

As it happened, the mountainous clouds I saw on Friday were holding rain that inundated the eastern provinces. Flash floods and landslides killed several people and left many more homeless. The Han River in Gyeonggi-do (the province around Seoul) rose over its banks in many places, putting some roads under water and flooding low apartments. We got a phone call from friends in Yeoju saying that the Namhan River might flood, but it seems not to have happened (yet?).


In any case, here are the photos (and a few videos, too).

































Mallipo fireworks 1
Mallipo fireworks 2
Mallipo fireworks 3

Different strokes for different folks

Sidewalk scene near Dongdaemun
Namdaemun market
Foot traffic at Yongsan Station
Just one aisle of an electronics market