Giant Apartment Buildings

In Korea, there are scores of these huge apartment buildings, all over the place! They’re in Seoul, Daejeon, and every other city that I’ve been to. They all look the same, and there are literally rows and rows of them. The first time I came to Korea (from the suburbs of Lompoc), I was very intimidated by all these buildings. It seemed eerie, that most of the population all lives in these buildings. (like something out of a science fiction thing, or something.) Now I am more used to them. That’s just the way things have to be.

See, Korea has a big population, but has such a small amount of space. I’ve been told that there are more people who live in Seoul than there are who live in Canada! Wow! So instead of building outward and taking up precious land that could be used for farming and whatnot, they build up, and use less ground space to make more housing. (Of course, that makes parking a problem…)

And yes, I do appreciate the amount of free wilderness space it opens up! Oh yes!

But what you don’t see are all the smaller buildings that these apartments hide. Many of these smaller buildings look different and are unique from one another, so don’t go feeling that Korea is full only of buildings that look alike.

Here’re some pictures depicting the Yuseong area of Daejeon. Look, there are many different sorts of buildings you can see!