Pohang, Korea's golden egg

It's time to talk about something else this time, something that doesn't require a lot of thinking. I had a long week of travelling around Korea recently. I was having class on that whole week, but I chose to skip em. It was a good decision, real good one.

I went to Incheon (3rd largest city in Korea) on Tuesday, Pohang on Wednesday and Thursday, Everland (Theme park) on Friday, Ice fishing (didn't fish, but might talk about it next time) on Saturday, snowboarding on a mountain 30km away from the NK-SK borders on Sunday.

But mostly I will talk about Pohang in this post and places that I went in Pohang, places that it's good to go depending on what kind of person you are.

It was a 10,000 won trip from Yonsei, totally worth it. For that amount, we get transportation (they provided some breakfast and some snacks before we start out on our journey there and our journey back), we stayed in a pretty decent 4 stars hotel that serves great buffet breakfast (say BACON!), and meals and entrance fees and others.

And on the day before we went there, it was snowing down like mad in Seoul, probably 8cm of snow.

This was Korea after the snow, probably the only places that weren't covered by snow was Pohang (the  part  just below the snow on the right,), Busan and  places down south.

Places to go in Pohang ?
1. Homigot
Nothing much to talk about for this place, I will post photos instead.
They have some kind of sunrise festival over here on New year eve - new year day, Koreans have a thing on watching the first sunrise of the year.

Building near the Homigot.

This is one near the hand.

This is what it should look like if I am a pro photographer taking the photo .

This is how it looks like when I took it with my 5mp phone.

Pretty crazy wave there.

Another of the hand photo.

Another of the wave photo

Try to make it looks really good.

Because Pohang is situated in a pretty southern part of the continent, it is not really cold when you go to Homigot in the winter, except that the wind blows like mad over there, enjoy.

2. Posco Museum
This place, depending on how much you care about history on something, such as how a steelmaker company which is the 2nd largest steel making company in the world got started, and how it helped Korea economically out of their poverty.

Some steel furnace replica in the museum

3. Robot museum
Pohang has a real good engineering university in Korea, next to KAIST, and hence , all the robotic stuff in this place. Probably photos or videos will explain better.

Dinosaur Robot thing

Robot?

There were a swimming shark robot (on air), fish robots, football robots and piano playing robots and etc. Pretty fun and this place was the highlight of our trip too.

4. Ice-cream/Yogurt/Cheese making.

Another great place to go when you are at Pohang too, it wasn't that far from Homigot and it was a great experience making string cheese and ice creams yourself.

Ice cream making

They have this farm at the back of the place where we made ice cream and cheese.

Yeah, sheep too.

Free yogurt

5. Some random warship.
There is a warship where we can go in and and see how it's like inside a warship.

Their bed

Some control room

Cannon

Ship

Ship

Huge ass caliber gun

Poor sailors bed.

6. Posco night view.
Nothing much, they try to look as green and as nice as possible even though they are just a bunch of steel making factories. By adding colors to the building, they achieved some of their points, but pollution do continues.

7. Fish market.
NO photos but it's kinda like Jagalchi Fish Market  in Busan, pretty huge market and stinks as well.

8. Watch football !
Didn't do this, but I heard Pohang Steelers, is a pretty good football team and well they are a Pohang team. Catching a home game for this team is not a bad idea too huh.

Pohang is a great place to hang out and see things, they have a pretty nice beach too. Probably a city where you can have fun for a real short time, like maximum of 3 days. You can't expect much from this place. All in all, a trip for 10,000 won ? Totally worth it.

Photos not good ? Well, I am not a photographer, equipped with a 5mp phone, I am definitely getting what I paid for. But, do check out my friend's Wesley's daily photo blog, he posts a daily photo thing everyday and I think he has this awesome creativity juice flowing in his head everyday and on top of that he is really talented ! The photos that he took brings out the feeling with no fail..I love all his photos !

You X Everyone.Evolution

Hate your new timeline on Facebook ? or reading status updates on people complaining on how much they hated the new changes that Facebook brought ?

Wondered why music is not as good as the old times ? You wished that good guitarist stays in that band and  still make good music ?

90s was the best decade and bla bla..

You wished that your university life is as fun as your high school ?

What do you feel on the way back after meeting a friend who you haven't met for some time? Chances are you either feel excited that he's changed, or you feel that it's not the same because he's changed, or you feel that that meeting will be the last meeting because everything has CHANGED.

Wait, whatever answer that you might come up with, let's look at this and see if this makes sense to you. There is no such thing called an absolute yardstick, most of the times when people analyze something, they subconsciously uses something (self,environment, etc.) to compare with it .

I don't really know the concept of yin yang, but I know sometimes stuff come in pairs. Saying that product A is cheaper means you are saying that anything other than product A is expensive (after comparing it with others). Sarcastically calling someone a smartass ironically means calling yourself a dumbass (This does not mean you should stop giving honest compliment about others because it reflects you as being an inferior). Ultimately, saying that someone/something has changed contained the meaning of you stayed the SAME.

Technology is a very liquid market, if you don't capture the market earlier, dont even think about going around doing it later, you missed it, period. And, if you planned to stay the same, you will perish. Look at Kodak for example, top leadership was betting on films to flourish and ignored the fact that mobile camera is gonna be the next trend, the result? they filed for bankruptcy last month. Why? They wished everything stayed the same because that's when they made the most money. Their arch rival, FujiFilm, transitioned to other markets and is doing so much better compared to Kodak. In technology market, if you got an idea, release the product, find out what is wrong and then release a better version of your idea, you are making money. You don't wait until it's perfect, it takes forever, applies not only to technology, but your life too. Don't wait til it's perfect, just do it.

Grow or die. Embrace change, get out of your comfort zone, know that evolution brings us something better. If you have time and energy to think about how good old times were, why don't you use it to make yourself a better version of yourself? Resisting change shows how much you want to stay in  your comfort zone, shows how much you don't want to grow up from sucking milk from your mum's breasts, shows how much you will not grow and how much you want to let yourself rot.

You don't want to be the one on the right who says that you wished things stay the way they were.

"This is Korea, you should/must..... " Koreans usually give me this answer when I questioned something that they can't answer. They eliminate the process of thinking when they do that.

Don't go around and wish that everyone should think like you, that kills all the uniqueness in this world.
Don't wish to think like everyone else, you are killing the uniqueness in you.
Do try to make people start thinking... with their penis brain.




Keat.

P/s - I read this when I was on a trip, thought that I should share this too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/01/top-five-regrets-of-the-dying