Well, here I am in home sweet Daegu. It's not what I would have chosen but I think I'll be happy here. One of the benefits of being here is that I have an excuse to ride the KTX.
I also got to see the 'new and improved' Seoul Station.


The old station is brick and looks 100 years old. The new one is an expanse of glass and steel whose walls lean outward in a suggestion of a forward-looking perspective. It reminded me of my belief that Koreans don't have enough regard for the past. (Everyone reading this who knows anything about Korea just launched their coffee through their respective noses.) Although the assertion is semi-ludicrous, I think the the past half-century of economic progress has led social leaders to believe that growth is an unmitigated good. Whenever I see mountainsides being bulldozed to make way for yet another set of identical apartment buildings, I wonder what price Korea is paying for this truly admirable progress.
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This attitude has been chronicled better by Stavros the WonderChicken, a wiser and much better intoxicated man than I.
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