한강시민공원 Hangang Shimin Kongwon, Han River Citizen's Park No. 1, as nice a park along the river as you'll see anywhere! Just a ten minute walk from my apartment, I feel lucky! I generally approach it from the southwest, where my entree is this view:
The bike/jogging/walking track runs for 1.3 km, marked off in 100 m. increments. Shady benches, tennis courts, exercise stations, basketball and other sports areas form the bulk of the leeward side of the park.
The Jang-ma rains of the last few days have rendered the soccer pitch--dirt, no grass, like most such fields here--unplayable:
Still, pick-up baseball takes place wherever there are a handful of small boys with a ball, a bat and a couple of gloves:
 The wind-up ... |  ... the swing |
It's called Hangang Park because it is on the Hangang (Han River), though the river itself is located on the other side of the Olympic Expressway, about ten lanes of freeway traffic.
Still, that's no problem, as you simply go up a ramp and down the other side ...
... which is decorated in a kind of Mary Blair-esque tile style ...
... then through a cool tunnel ...
... with cyclists streaming along the bike path beside the river ...
... until I take a rest with the Han River right behind me. Yeah.
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