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Showing posts with label Yangjae Citizen Forest station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yangjae Citizen Forest station. Show all posts

Monday, September 16, 2013

Yangjae Citizen's Forest (part 2)

One of the flower beds within the forest (park). If we take a look closer into it, you'd be amazed at how many flowers were dashed and squeezed into one bed of flower garden like this. 
It's nothing sort of extraordinary. But, still an elaborate effort by the management to keep the park look fancily beautiful.
I couldn't stop adoring the blue sky, though.  
Off I went into the other corner of the forest (no..park:). I found some people do come here for photography, esp. those who were fond of Japanese anime. Gosh..I should've dared myself taking their pictures while in action. 
Then..there were at least three memorial monuments were erected there.
Wonder what this one was. 
it must be one of these. But not the the first one, I am sure. 
I just realized that --historically speaking--these parks were homes to the monument of two tragedies that sparked the nation's anger years ago.
Okay, back to the forest...this is quite an interesting concept. 
Adopt-A-Park? what is this actually? What's this anyway?
is it like...we're bringing in some sprouts, some seeds, some grow-to-be trees to be planted here on site? Nooo...
it's simply to keep asserting, affirming, reminding..all citizens to keep and love the park+forest. 
Back to the stream I was crossing when I stepped into the park, now I was crossing this stream again when I got out of the forest (a.k.a. park). 
This is the entrance/exit gate from the subway station (DX Line): the newest line in Seoul. 
*more about this unique subway line in my other entry.


Yangjae Citizen Forest (part 1)

Got off at Yangjae Citizen Forest--yes...there's even a station named like this. Citizen Forest? What does it mean? I didn't know^^, but I happened to read a signage inside the park about how the park is partly donated by the citizen. hmmm...is that so?
so, this is the stream I was crossing over towards the forest. 
Forest? well, kinda. It's a forest in Seoul-ictionary of course. For a city with abundant (figuratively) hills and mountains, parks are indispensable life-cycle for a city this big.
So, people do go and have their activities done at this kind of place. 
Early autumn, yet the trees are still green. Some have turned into light green, though.
It was a good thing that I managed to peep into what this park had to offer. 
Pathways underneath shades of these trees were ample and adequate enough for any city dwellers to blend into it. Fresh air...it is. not fresher than the one we have back in downtown..but still, it's fresh. 
As with other city forest (parks) surrounding Seou, this one is no exception. Apartments and tall buildings do spring out of nowhere. Well, that's the whole point. This is a reserved ecological park situated right in the middle of the bustling city to absorb carbon dioxide (gosh ..I can't believe I just jotted it down:)!! 
what a great way to have lunch, right?
Some people do come to the forest with their lunch box spread open on top of the provided benches and tables across the forest. hmmm...interesting. 
empty chair...empty chair...
what say you?
I dont' care...I don't care...
"what about you?" 
I think I may need to re-visit this park once the season's fully autumned :D

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