Gohan on Google Earth

I tracked down my house and various places of work on Google Earth, instead of doing something more useful like studying Korean, going to the gym, preparing lessons for next week, going to the market, or cleaning.

Gohan

As you can see (you may want to click on the picture to see it full-size), I apparently live right at the edge of the part of Korea worth seeing in detail. Kallae Elementary School, where I teach on Wednesdays, is about a ten minute walk from the edge of the high-res world into my low-res world. My house, on the Gohan Elementary school-grounds, is another twenty minutes west from Kallae on foot. Finding my house was a matter of inputing the coordinates I measured from my GPS one day. With that as a reference point, and this place being small and squoze into such a narrow valley, it wasn’t too hard to figure out which of the bigger white blobs corresponded to which buildings. The various brand-new ski resort buildings aren’t on here, which shouldn’t be too surprising.

Gohan

Looks like I’m quite close to the ocean, eh? Well, I’m about 35 miles away as the magpie flies but even by car it’s at least little over an hour’s drive. These are some very crazy curvy roads. By bus or train you’re looking at more like two hours. From here express buses pretty much only go to Seoul. Any other destination and it’s a local bus or nothing. Trains, in these parts anyway, are just slow in general – although cheaper, more comfortable, and providing of better scenery.

Speaking of birds flying, the Supervisor of Foreign Language Instruction of the Gangwon Provincial Office of Education (whew! be glad I only gave you his probably somewhat shortened English title) has promised that at our next English teacher gathering we will get a chance to visist that yellow line near the horizon (probably from a safe distance, unfortunately). There we will see some migratory birds doing what probably pretty much everyone else coming from where they’re coming from wishes they could do. And those folk probably wouldn’t be so bird-brained as to return in the spring. He also told us to work here many years and that we shouldn’t worry about getting nuked.

While I’m off doing more useful things and not getting nuked in the process, you should download Google Earth. Then you should click here. (If Google Earth doesn’t open automatically, try saving the linked file and then opening it with Google Earth.)

4 Responses to “Gohan on Google Earth”

  1. MT Says:

    Your “kohan.kmz” link is broken.

  2. MT Says:

    Um, I meant to type “Gohan.kmz”. You figured that out I’m sure.

  3. askory Says:

    Thanks. Fixed.

  4. Andy M. Says:

    The guards at the DMZ stand halfway covered by buildings. It looks pretty awkward.

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