Back Down South

Yeosu - number one destination to travel to in 2012.... http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/escape/best-places-visit-2012-776891?hpt=itr_t1

Harbour area - Odongdo

Yeosu is made up by the 'Yeosu peninsular' as well as 317 islands only 49 of which are inhabited.  After receiving a job offer and googling Yeosu two years ago, I found out two things. The first is impossible to avoid nowadays which is that Yeosu will host the World Expo in 2012 and the second was that there was a gigantic industrial complex/chemical plant based there. Obviously these two factors would not normally go hand in hand but this is Korea and such factors will be overlooked when there is an opportunity to impress on the world stage. 
  Needing slightly more information before I could commit a year of my life to the city, I went to the local library knowing that the Lonely planet would surely have a more in-depth analysis and this is what I found:

Yeosu  Population 327,000
The municipality of Yeosu covers a vast area about halfway along Korea's steep, island-pocked and deeply indented southern coast.  By the time you reach Yeosu you will have seen comparable city centres, but it's shoreline, peppered with cliffs, islands and peninsulas, is spectacularly beautiful.

  My mind was made up, the bags were packed and weeks later I would arrive at my new home.  Here are the pictures...

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

The road can also be a mess.

Not a prison but my first apartment

Inside the cell, I mean apartment.

Kitchen

Plan for the Expo 2012 

Plan/dream for the Expo 2012

One of the many proposed buildings for the Expo.

And another, I see different proposals every week.

Two videos for the Expo 2012, you might think that they are a joke, but I can assure you that they are not.