Old-ish Mural by Guro Digital Complex Station

Went to dinner last night with old pal Adam, and he located a good place for 0-차, and sent it to me on Kakao.


Guro Digital has a wonderful eating street, but this post is not about that.
No, it's about this:


This mural on a wall across from the CU, which is in a very new building. The wall and the mural, by contrast, not particularly new, and seem to depict life in Seoul in the eighties (?).


This area used to be a grimy manufacturing hub until new government came along and tore everything (well, a lot of things) down to convert it into a high-tech hub, a digital complex. In the background below, you can see one of the big blue-glass office buildings that now dominate the landscape.


Below is a photo of me and the "neon lights of Guro-gu" taken by Tanner back in 2011.

Chuseok at Emart, 2021

Spam, or other brands of spiced ham processed meat food product like "Ri-cham", are the most popular Chuseok gifts. Chuseok, of course, is the Korean Thanksgiving holiday, the mid-autumn festival, during which time people return to their hometown, and they do so bearing gifts. The center of the second set above flavored Dong Won tuna--olive and grape. Below is a row of "anshim" or rib meat, more tuna, and a variety of cooking oils.


Check out the price of those mushrooms: 13,000 W, about US$12 per 100 grams! Below, a dried anchovy, sardine and shrimp set, and a variety of red ginsing and garlic sets.


I was surprised to realize that I have only done one post similar to this during my whole time in the Seoul Patch, back in 2009. You can have a look to see how much inflation has occured since then: when it comes to high-priced mushrooms, the answer is, not much. But gift sets aren't just food. Here's body wash, shampoo and six tubes of toothpaste, and a sanitizing nod to the times we live in: