Check Out the View!

With the arrival of my second bag yesterday, and the digital camera contained within, I am finally able to post some pictures of my new environs!

I don't know the exact names of these mountains, but I am told that they are the beginning of what the Koreans call the "Yeongnam Alps." This is the view I wake up to every morning, directly off of my balcony:














Today, the sky is a little too hazy to truly appreciate them. They are especially beautiful when the early morning mists are hanging low over the feet of the mountains. I'll try to get a picture of that scene and post it soon.

Directly to the right of this view is what a lot of the rest of Cheonsang looks like:














As you can see, I live on the top (20th) floor of one of these high-rise apartment buildings that dot the Korean cityscapes, aptly named "Highvil." The majority of the Korean population live in apartments like these. How else to fit 50 million people into a nation only slightly bigger than Maine? Once again, portions of Invisible Cities comes to mind.

And here is what the interior of the apartment looks like:














(Living room)














(Kitchen)
It's definetely a step up from my monastic cell at Chicago, and although I think it's a little smaller than my flat on Jugoslavska in Vinohrady, it's much cleaner and quieter. Next time, pictures of "downtown" Cheonsang (it's all downtown, but whatever...).