title Seomun Market, Daegu, South Korea - 1st July 2012 intro It's the second weekend in Korea, whilst working at Samsung. Saturday is spent working in the hotel as the weather's a bit rubbish and it's raining outside. However, Sunday improves a bit and so Nosher heads off to Gumi station to catch a train down the line to the city of Daegu, some 40 minutes away. The primary focus whilst in Daegu is a visit to Seomun Market - Korea's largest traditional market, home to a somewhat staggering 4,000 shops. At the end of the following week, the lads from Samsung take Nosher out for an excellent good-bye session in a Korean restaurant where they proceed to demonstrate most of the local forms of alcohol: Hite beer, Soju (vodka) and Makali (rice wine), or various mixtures of all three. Nosher's plan is to stay up all night afterwards and catch the 6.30am bus to the airport, however the internet's broken and the TV's awful so it's bed by 2am and up again at 5 for the 25-hour trip home. imgp4352 Rice paddy fields on the way to Daegu imgp4353 A highly disorganised shoe sale occurs in Daegu imgp4356 Clothing shops in Seomun Market imgp4359 A fruit seller imgp4360 The covered lanes of the market imgp4365 Another clothes shop imgp4366 A creaky old bicycle and a pile of garlic imgp4367 Outside the market imgp4369 Covered outdoor sections imgp4373 More fruit imgp4376 Back inside the market imgp4381 Thousands of tiny dried fishies imgp4382 A load of raffia imgp4385 People mill around imgp4387 Some dude sells insects or something imgp4392 A tomato seller in action imgp4396 Lunch: deep fried sausages wrapped in bean curd imgp4399 The "food corridor" imgp4400 The deep-fried sausage stall imgp4401 Someone rides a moped around imgp4402 Another food shop waits for customers imgp4405 A fire engine waits, in case imgp4406 The Chilli lady imgp4408 An octopus looks like a facehugger from Alien imgp4409 Another moped pootles off imgp4411 More fruit and veg imgp4413 Sign over the main gate of Seomun Market imgp4414 Amusing cartoon sign imgp4420 A woman sells a range of vegetables imgp4421 An old guy waits imgp4424 The entrance to the market imgp4426 A clock and a cross imgp4427 Side-street shack imgp4428 Shacks and towers imgp4430 A temple on a hill imgp4432 Daegu First Presbyterian Church imgp4435 Tower blocks imgp4440 Looking out over the roofs of Daegu imgp4445 A woman crosses a stripy orange speed bump imgp4452 A US missionary house, built in the Californian style imgp4454 A tour group mills around imgp4455 A cool tiled mural imgp4456 More tiles with stuff on imgp4459 Another curious mix of buildings imgp4461 Daegu expressway and the Hyundai department store imgp4464 Ornate door on a house imgp4465 Vegetables in an allotment imgp4467 Colourful wall art imgp4469 A couple of chairs sit around imgp4471 A curious blue hut with a peep-hole in the side imgp4472 A bit of Korean dereliction and rare graffiti imgp4473 A row of shops imgp4475 Another shuttered shack imgp4477 More fruit on the street imgp4478 Building works on a Daegu street imgp4479 On the bridge imgp4481 A subway shop unit imgp4482 Pedestrian street in Daegu imgp4483 A sleeping homeless dude with his world in a cart imgp4484 The escalator down to the station imgp4485 A suburban K-Rail train imgp4489 Daegu's suburban station imgp4491 It's the party carriage on a Korean train imgp4492 A beaten-up train passes through Daegu station imgp4493 The 16-carriage-long KTX train speeds past imgp4495 Back at Gumi railway station imgp4497 The tunnel-like entrance to Gumi station imgp4500 A rare 1930s building imgp4501 The tunnel entrance to the station imgp4502 Gumi street life, and a 1930s building imgp4503 The side street down to the retail park imgp4505 Barbed wire imgp4506 A wasteland car park imgp4508 The back of the Gumi Century hotel imgp4509 Standing water imgp4510 Nosher's dinner, in the restaurant down the road imgp4511 The light of the eMart is like the eye of Sauron imgp4516 Down the street from the hotel imgp4518 The lads take Nosher out for a feed imgp4520 Nosher and Tae Kyoung imgp4522 A beer is inspected imgp4524 Doing the 'victory' sign seems big in Korea imgp4525 Nosher's got a shot of Soju imgp4528 Chips roams around outside for a bit imgp4530 Nosher and Chips imgp4533 Some roast pork appears imgp4535 The lads have a moment imgp4537 Chips waves imgp4540 There's a "cheers" moment imgp4543 The bag contains a fire escape, on the eight floor imgp4544 Nosher's desk for the fortnight imgp4545 The hotel room imgp4546 Gumi bus station at 6am imgp4547 Inside Incheon airport imgp4549 A Korean Air plane on the wet apron imgp4554 Classical music in the airport imgp4557 An Asiana Airlines comes on to the stand imgp4560 A visit from the royal family is re-enacted imgp4563 The Korean royal family imgp4565 Tourists take photos imgp4570 Traditional dress imgp4581 The entourage moves off through the airport imgp4585 Something that Apple hasn't sued yet imgp4586 Another plane waits on the wet apron imgp4588 Back at Diss railway station