Sunday, August 5, 2012

Directional note

Just wanted to quickly express how most directions are given in "약도" or "direction map" form in Korea with a lovely representation made by yours truly:


This pretty much covers it. If you are lucky there will be two lines, which you would be accurate in assuming are roads. If you are lucky, you will recognize one of the random dots as your current location or nearby your current location. If you are doubly lucky, it will have some sort of "you are here" indicator, but, as this is too rare, I did not include it in this map. 


Thing 1 and Thing 2 will be extremely common things like a bank or 7 Eleven that you are supposed to use as landmarks, but as there are billions of these (think starbucks), it usually does not help. You will think you've found it, but after taking five more steps, you will see another one.

Easiest to recognize is your destination because hopefully you know where you are trying to go. 

The dots representing the "location" of these extremely random things are haphazardly placed on the map. Usually they are next to the streets which are helpfully unlabeled and usually don't represent the actual direction of the street. If the dot is very far away from the street, it is also probably somewhere nearby. Maybe.

Be warned. Objects in map are never to scale.

Good luck finding anything! If you aren't a "direction person" you better magically make yourself more capable, because your rental phone sure as toilet paper won't have any fancy GPS stuff to cover for you.

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