{"id":22,"date":"2013-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/06\/post-15-gapyeong-and-chuncheon\/"},"modified":"2013-04-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-06T00:00:00","slug":"post-15-gapyeong-and-chuncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/06\/post-15-gapyeong-and-chuncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-15: A Long, Long Subway Ride to Eat Some Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">It was a drizzly Saturday, and I visited <strong style=\"\">Gapyeong <\/strong>and <strong style=\"\"><a style=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chuncheon\">Chuncheon<\/a><\/strong>. Both are serene rural-ish places.<\/div>\n<div class=\"wsite-map\"><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 350px; margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.weebly.com\/weebly\/apps\/generateMap.php?map=google&amp;elementid=393342569871152307&amp;ineditor=0&amp;control=3&amp;width=auto&amp;height=350px&amp;overviewmap=1&amp;scalecontrol=1&amp;typecontrol=1&amp;zoom=8&amp;long=127.7299707&amp;lat=37.8813153&amp;domain=www&amp;point=1&amp;align=1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">In case this attempt at an embedded-Google-Map doesn&#8217;t work, try this:<font size=\"5\"><strong style=\"\"><font size=\"4\"> [<a style=\"\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.884797,127.716908&#038;spn=0.01,0.01&#038;t=m&#038;q=37.884797,127.716908\">Map<\/a>]<\/font><\/strong><\/font>. Click on it and zoom out to see just how far <em style=\"\">east <\/em>Chuncheon  is, more than halfway across the country.<\/p>\n<p><span>What may be most interesting about the trip is my method of transportation: I got there on the Seoul subway network. Amazingly, <\/span>I can scan my card into the &#8220;subway&#8221; system here in Bucheon,  and arrive in Chuncheon 2 or 2.5 hours later. Total charge: $2.65, deducted from my card. Less than Koreans tend to pay for a single cup of  coffee.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span> (My friend Jared dreams of a  day in which the subway system is  nationwide. Scan-in with your card at  your home station in Ilsan [say],  and get off in Daejeon [say], several  hours later. Not very speedy,  but essentially free, and gloriously  easy. Why not?).<br \/>______________________________________________<br \/><span>Chuncheon is famous for the tasty Korean chicken dish called &#8220;<strong>dakgalbi<\/strong>&#8220;. <\/span>We ate a delicious meal on &#8220;dakgalbi street&#8221;. The soda was free, all-you-can-drink, which delighted me.<\/p>\n<p><span>I find it funny that i<\/span>n Seoul, everybody claims to make &#8220;<em>authentic Chuncheon-style dakgalbi<\/em>&#8220;.\u00a0 Naturally, in Chuncheon, though, I noticed several businesses bearing the name &#8220;Seoul&#8221;. Seoul Dry-Cleaners, for example. The grass <em>is <\/em>always greener on the other side. I also noticed a bunch of quaint establishments called <em>da-bang<\/em> (\ub2e4\ubc29), tea houses. I&#8217;d read about these in old tourist guidebooks. I had no idea they still existed. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ve ever seen any in the Seoul area outside Insadong, the tourist street. In Seoul, it&#8217;s all coffee. Maybe I just don&#8217;t look hard enough.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-thin \" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\"> <a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/214062183.jpg\" alt=\"Picture\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:640px\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\">Dakgalbi (stolen from <a href=\"http:\/\/janetnewenham.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/25\/the-bul-the-dak-and-the-galbi\/\">here<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a drizzly Saturday, and I visited Gapyeong and Chuncheon. Both are serene rural-ish places. In case this attempt at an embedded-Google-Map doesn&#8217;t work, try this: [Map]. Click on it and zoom out to see just how far east Chuncheon is, more than halfway across the country. 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