Daejeon, Metropolitan City

This is Daejeon, the city in which I live right now. Daejeon is one of Korea's six Metropolitan Cities, with Seoul, the capital, as the largest. Daejeon ranks as Korea's fifth largest city with a population of around 1.5 million people. This is a huge difference from my hometown of Lompoc, which hits maybe over 60,000 in population!


It's got this sweet big river running right through it, the Gapcheon river. I'm not used to being around rivers larger than a creek, actually!...





The city, like most cities in Korea, have huge apartment buildings just lined up row by row. Korea has a large population compacted into a small area of land, so they gotta use land wisely, I suppose.






Stores and Markets get packed on top of each other, too! One building oftentimes contains multiple businesses. And then there are apartments over those! In fact, I live right above a restaurant!

And here's the city flag. This is all it says.


It's crazy, getting used to taking buses and trains, and not being able to walk across town, err, the city, in an hour.

So many people live here, and oh how many of them need the grace of Christ! May we have wisdom as we try to reach out to and build up the Koreans here in the city!