The Streets of Ulsan

This is the area just east of the University of Ulsan, where I live.

















Looking south down the street. That's Munsu World Cup Football Stadium in the distance.
















This photo is looking west. That's a small park on the left. That building in the distance is pretty much the western extend of Ulsan. It's all countryside after that.
















Looking north, onto the mountains.
















Here's looking east. The University of Ulsan is at the end of this road. The ocean (East Sea/Sea of Japan) is probably about 20 km away.
















A typical small apartment building with a couple of motorbikes our front. The sport bike on the right looks familiar...
















This building is four stories high.
















This is looking Northeast.
















One block east of the pervious pictures. On the left is a convenience store. This building here contains a PC room on the second floor.
















Here's a typical 24-hour store. You can rent movies from here. It's about the same as anything that you'd see in North America.
















A playground. There are a lot of small parks about this size in the area. It's common to see older men (ajossi) sitting, talking and drinking soju (basically Korean vodka) in these parks.
















A random restaurant.
















A seafood restaurant.
















Another restaurant. I'm guessing that this is a Chinese restaurant, because of the Chinese writting on the sign. Those bikes are food delievery bikes. Most of the restaurants offer a food delievery service, via these bikes.
















A typical street food stand. Most of the food here is breaded and quite cheap. Breaded shrimp, crab sticks, octopus, egg, spring rolls, seaweed and noodles and other breaded things are often available. I can fill myself up for $2 here.
















Here's Big Mart, where I often do my grocery shopping. Let's go inside.
















Here's where I can get my meat.
















The drinks are here. There are no 2 litre bottle here. A bottle of Coca-cola is 1.5 litres. Koreans do not seem to drink as much soda as we do back home. There is a very small selection of soft drink. Usually Coke, Pepsi, Cider (local version of Sprite/7-Up), and a variety of Fanta is available (Pineapple Fanta!). You have to go to a large store like Home Plus or Wal-Mart to find rarities such as Root Beer or Dr. Pepper.

Right in front of me in this picture is a large selection of seaweed.
















Here's were I can get milk, cheese slices (I have to go to Busan or Daegu to get actual block cheese or sour cream), yogurt, cream, Korean rice wine, soju, vodka, whiskey, and beer. Cans of beer are fairly rare and more expensive than a bottle. It's common to buy a 1.5 litre bottle of beer for about $4. The soju is in the green bottles on the second and third shelves. They cost about $1 a bottle. Eggs can be found behind me.
















Loot at the selection of curry! I've really developed a taste for curry since moving here.
















Here's the veggie and fruit section. Right in front of me are bags of frozen goods. I can buy oven ready pizza (I have no oven!) and mandu here.
















The snack food isle.
















Here's the bread.