The fronts of buildings often get makeovers to please tourists or attract customers, but the spaces and alleys between buildings are neglected forever. Unless a restaurant or coffee shop somewhere down the alley gets noticed on social media and becomes famous . . .
All four sides of the Homeplus/CGV building downtown are nice and neat with hedges, tile paving, benches (if you don’t mind smokers), and lampposts.
I think this is where I’m supposed to say something insightful about the modern urban landscape. But nope, I’m just an ignoramus with a camera.
Keep on snappin’ away!
Jeez, that first pic looks like an accident waiting to happen! I imagine you don’t hear the phrase over there that is often made by some people in the UK who feel their right to kill themselves is being oppressed: “It’s Health & Safety gone mad”
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The phrase here is, “Ah, it’ll be okay . . . “
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Great shots. Easy to walk past those…not always easy to see the shot. Well done.
You’ve mentioned the smokers a lot, so I guess this is a common sight. Do they dispose of their butts properly? Over here not that many people smoke in the street any more – but too often those that do just throw their butts on the ground. Almost no-one gets fined (even though it is an offence). Not enough officials (maybe that’s a good thing) and even if they were pulled up on it, they’d probably give the official such a mouthful that they would regret ever saying anything.
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Thanks for the compliments.
Butts are on the ground along with copious amounts of spit and phlegm. Really hard to look at. Illegal to spit in Korea, but who’s going to stop them?
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Hmm. I remember a lot more people used to spit here years ago. Like my grandfather (who smoked as well). Nowadays we’re all too refined. Well…not quite ‘all’.
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I suspect it was the same in Canada, though my memories are not good.
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The only thing I can think of to say about that top picture is that it’s like stabbing a marine engineers heart… I keep on thinking that cables should be neatly laid up to make it at least look like we know what we’re doing, and to show a tiny bit of pride in your craft and such. Apparently it’s not so everywhere. This street is not alone though, as they got very much comparative works done a lot of other places as well 🙂
I’ve seen some really brilliant examples in Trinidad and Brazil and a few other countries as well.
Anyway, luckily the electric power finds it’s way through the cables usually, but I would think they might have some issues with earth failures during the wet periods of the year. I would not park my bicycle beneath that “installation” on a very wet day, to put it that way.
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Workers often get paid by the job rather than the hour, so it might be more profitable to just do things quickly and move on to the next job.
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