I’ve been pretty stationary since starting my new job. I realized I haven’t even ridden a bus or subway in several weeks. Ilsan is so walkable, so I just walk places.
I decided I needed to go somewhere, and my friend Mr Choi invited me to Suwon, so I took the subway/bus combo down there yesterday. He met me with some of his friends and we drove to some middle-of-the-nowhere place on the west side of Suwon where we went to a restaurant-combined-with-furniture-shop. These hippy-ish Koreans making hand-crafted furniture and delicious food.
After it was over, I helped Mr Choi with proofreading the English of some materials that are part of his latest business scheme (he’s always got a business scheme or three going). One has to be non-perfectionist with these things – try to catch the worst of it, and let a lot of the less horrible errors go past. Otherwise it makes the correction proof a red blur of ink. People seem to have this misconception that the output of Google translate is good English, which it most certainly isn’t, most of the time.
Here are a few pictures.
Me in the restaurant with the delicious food.
Some hand-crafted furniture.
A functional reproduction of an 18th-century Korean crane thingy of the sort used in the construction of the famous Suwon fortress.
Sunset.
