๐ 2024-03-28 (2)
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๐บ๐ธ After taking a walk in the park (literally), I went to the National Library of Korea.
๐ฐ๐ท ๊ณต์ ์ฐ์ฑ ํ ๊ตญ๋ฆฝ๋์๊ด์ ๊ฐ.
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๐บ๐ธ Gloomy day, pretty building. The grass in Korea tends to be yellow unless itโs in the middle of summer; I hear itโs a different type of grass from the kind that grows in Europe/North America. It has its own golden charm.
๐ฐ๐ท ๊ทธ๋ฃจ๋ฏธํ ๋ , ์์ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ. ํ๊ตญ์ ์๋๋ ํ์ฌ๋ฆ์ด ์๋๋ฉด ๋ ธ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ๋ง๋ค. ์ ๋ฝ/๋ถ์๋ฉ๋ฆฌ์นด์์ ์๋ผ๋ ํ๊ณผ๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ์ข ๋ฅ๋ผ์ ๊ทธ๋ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ค์๋๋ฐ, ๊ธ์๋์๋ ์๊ธฐ๋ง์ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ด ์๋ค.
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๐บ๐ธ Ancient plaque, high-tech entry system. It is so high-tech that it is annoying. As a non-Korean who also doesnโt have a โforeigner registration certificateโ (or whatever itโs called in English), I had to take extra steps to get into the library at all. Not all Korean libraries require this; Iโve been to two other, smaller libraries in Seoul and they both did not ask for any ID to simply enter the building. (They may ask for registration and ID for borrowing books, of course.)
I hear that the reason the National Library makes such a big fuss about who enters the building at all is that it has lots of VALUABLE books.
Also, it has a section dedicated to North Korean resources. This section requires yet another series of registrations and identifications. The only reason I got in there at all was that Hyewon (who is interested in topics related to North Korea) was already registered for the North Korean section.
Anyway, it wasnโt so much the registration requirement part but more the assumption that I would have certain IDs that annoyed me. ๐ I told them right away that Iโm not a Korean; they still assumed that Iโm that type of foreigner who has certain paperwork. In this day and age! More foreigners live in Korea than ever before. More foreigners travel there than ever before. It blows my mind that government workers, of all people, can still assume that speaking Korean fluently can mean anything about the residential status of a person. The laziness of bureaucratesโregardless of which countryโannoys me. Frigginโ donโt work where you work if youโre so bored-pissed out of your mind and do a shit jobโฆ
๐ฐ๐ท ๊ณ ๋ ์ ๋ฌผ ๊ฐ์ ๋ช ํ + ํ์ดํ ํฌ ์ ์ฅ ์์คํ . ๋๋ฌด ํ์ดํ ํฌ๋ผ์ ์ง์ฆ๋จ. ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ๋ฑ๋ก์ฆ์ด ์๋ ๋นํ๊ตญ์ธ์ผ๋ก์, ๋์๊ด์ ๊ทธ๋ฅ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๊ธฐ๋ง ํ๋ ๊ฒ์กฐ์ฐจ ์ถ๊ฐ ๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ์๋ก ํ๋ค. ๋ชจ๋ ํ๊ตญ ๋์๊ด์ด ์ด๋ฅผ ์ํ๋ ๊ฑด ์๋๋ค. ์์ธ์ ์๋ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋์๊ด ๋ ๊ณณ(๋ ์์ ๊ณณ)์๋ ๊ฐ๋ดค๋๋ฐ, ๊ทธ์ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ ์ ์ฅํ๋ ๋ฐ์๋ ๋ ๋ค ID๋ฅผ ์๊ตฌํ์ง ์์๋ค. (๋ฌผ๋ก ์ฑ ์ ๋น๋ฆฌ๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ฑ๋ก ๋ฐ ์์ด๋๋ฅผ ์๊ตฌํ ์ ์๊ฒ ์ง.)
์ค์๋์๊ด์์ ๋๊ฐ ๊ฑด๋ฌผ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋์ง๋ฅผ ํ์ธํ๋ ค๊ณ ์ ๋๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์น๋ ์ด์ ๋ ๋งค.์ฐ. ๊ท.์ค.ํ. ์ฑ ์ด ๋ง์์๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฃ๊ธด ๋ค์๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ถํ ์๋ฃ์ ์ง์คํ๋ ์น์ ์ด ์๊ธฐ๋ ํ๋ค. ์ด ์น์ ์ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ๋ ค๋ฉด ๋ฑ๋ก๊ณผ ์์ด๋๊ฐ ๋ ์ถ๊ฐ๋ก ํ์ํ๋ค. ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ ๋ค์ด๊ฐ ์ ์์๋ ์ ์ผํ ์ด์ ๋ ํ์์ด ์ด๋ฏธ ๋ถํ ์น์ ์ ๋ฑ๋ก๋์ด ์์๊ธฐ ๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค. (ํ์์ ๋ถํ๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ํ ํฝ์ ๊ด์ฌ์ด ์๋ค.)
์๋ฌดํผ, ๋ฑ๋ก ์กฐ๊ฑด๋๋ฌธ์ด์๋ค๊ธฐ๋ณด๋ค๋, ๋ด๊ฐ ํน์ ์์ด๋๋ฅผ ์์งํ๊ณ ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๋ ๊ฐ์ ์ด ๋๋ฅผ ์ง์ฆ ๋๊ฒ ํ๋ค. ๐ ํ๊ตญ์ธ์ด ์๋๋ผ๊ณ ๋๋๊ณ ๋ง์ ํ๋๋ฐ๋ ๋ถ๊ตฌํ๊ณ , ๋ด๊ฐ ํน์ ์๋ฅ๋ฅผ ์์งํ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ์ผ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ค๋. ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ด ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฐ๋ค. ๋ํ, ๊ทธ ์ด๋ ๋๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ๋ค์ด ํ๊ตญ์ ์ฌํํ๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฅ ์๋ฌด๋๋ ์๋๊ณ , ํํ์ด๋ฉด ์ ๋ถ์์ ์ผํ๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ด ์์ง๋ ํ๊ตญ์ด ๊ตฌ์ฌ ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์ด ๋๊ตฐ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑฐ์ฃผ ์ ๋ถ์ ๋ํ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํด์ค๋ค๊ณ ์ฌ๊ธฐ๋ค๋, ๊ธฐ๊ฐ ์ฐฌ ๋ ธ๋ฆ์ด๋ค. ๊ด๋ฃ๋ค์ ๊ฒ์ผ๋ฆ์ด๋โ๊ตญ๊ฐ๊ฐ ์ด๋๋ ์ง ๊ฐ์โ์ง์ฆ์ ๋ถ๋ฌ์ผ์ผํจ๋ค. ๋น์ด๋จน์, ๊ทธ๋ ๊ฒ ๋ฌด๋ฃํดํ๊ณ ์ง์ ๋ฆฌ ๋ ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฉด ๋ด ๋ฐ์ ์ผํ๋ผ๊ณ . ๋จธ์ ๋ฆฌ์ฒ๋ผ ์ผํ์ง ๋ง๊ณ โฆ
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๐บ๐ธ The best part about many public places in Korea is that they have clean, free water. Even at Starbucks, if you ask for purified water, theyโll give you purified water instead of tap water.
๐ฐ๐ท ํ๊ตญ์ ๋ง์ ๊ณต๊ณต์ฅ์์ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ข์ ์ ์ ๊นจ๋ํ ๋ฌด๋ฃ ๋ฌผ์ด ์ ๊ณต๋๋ค๋ ์ ์ด๋ค. ์ฌ์ง์ด ์คํ๋ฒ ์ค์ ๊ฐ์๋ ์ ์๋ฌผ์ ๋ฌ๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ฉด ์ ์๋ฌผ์ ์ฃผ์ง, ์๋๋ฌผ์ ์ฃผ์ง ์๋๋ค.
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๐บ๐ธ Nice interior.
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ด๋ถ ๋งค์ฐ ์ข์.
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๐บ๐ธ Left: Self Book Disinfector.
Right: Phone boothโnot for a landline phone, but for taking your cell phone in there so you donโt disturb the other library users.
These random tools/services in public places are quite interesting.
๐ฐ๐ท ๊ณต๊ณต์ฅ์์ ์ด๋ฐ ๋๋คํ ๋๊ตฌ/์๋น์ค๋ค, ๋งค์ฐ ์ ๊ธฐ.
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๐บ๐ธ Such a nice workspace with a nice view.
๐ฐ๐ท ๋ทฐ๊ฐ ์ข์, ๋๋ ์ข์ ์์ ๊ณต๊ฐ.
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๐บ๐ธ Power plugs. A must!!!
๐ฐ๐ท ์ฝ์ผํธ๋ ๋๋ ์ค์ํ์ง!!!