17 Oct 2010

1st Meeting with Korean Tutor

Went through some alley ways-like narrow street in between residential tower blocks, we ended up sitting in a family-run type small restaurant, in front of a 42" flat screen TV hung right above our seat on the wall, drinking most popular Korean liquor, Soju, having Amercian KFC-type deep fry chicken with chips plus I guess traditional Korean spicy cold noodles "Bibim guksu" with snail, seaweed, spicy source,etc toppings. In this greeting dinner with Haewon, one of our tutor in the coming two months in KNUA, she tried to understand our individual projects' intentions and where our interest lays on. 



She suggested me to go to the Seoul Train Station where quite a lot of homeless people gather around. From the time of the old station which is under renovation to become a museum to the current new station, homeless people never stopped to claim their territories there. Look at the contrasting situation before and after the renovation. 

She also suggested me to have a look at some community & agency providing services to homeless people or marginalized people in Seoul as a start.




*a little sketch of  a mobile snack store while we are waiting outside Ichon Station, they are all around Seoul in the suburbs, selling the some traditional Korean snack made from rice.

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