2014-05-04 37 126

Sun 4 May 2014 in 37,126: 37.5653046, 126.9848886 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox

Location

KEB Plaza, Seoul, South Korea

Participants

Quaternary (talk)

Plans

I arrived in Seoul just before midnight last night, and the email from home this morning says "check out your local geohash - it looks close". Close alright! A mere 4km away, and it looks accessible, and it's just where I was about to go to do a bit of sightseeing anyway. Incroyable!

What that I've got to use as my marker - well, I quickly assembled the essentials: a piece of note paper of the swanky hotel I've been put up at, a pen, passport, and a mini roll of sticky tape - goodness knows why I had it in my possession in the first place (and who would know it would come to be so useful).

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  Preparing the essentials

I wonder what sort of building it's next too - hmm, that looks like a helicopter pad on it - maybe it's a hospital? Will it be fenced off?

Expedition

I caught the hotel shuttle to Myeongdong subway station, sighted the sun, and headed off on foot to the North. I have to say, about now I was pretty excited. What were the chances of a geohash falling into my lap like this? And before I knew it, I was here, hooray!

But not a hospital, between the KEB (Korea Exchange Bank) bank and the KEB Plaza.

I pondered for a while where to put my location marker. Should I put it on the wall of the bank? No, a bit crass, and a few metres too far from the spot for my liking. On the ground? No, not subtle enough. Here we go, on the side of this path. I can pre-tape the paper, and slap it on without anyone ... noticing. And I can crouch down, and take an inconspicuous ... selfy.

Oh, cripes, is this littering??!! Crickey, this is a clean city, this stands out a bit. Oh well, too late now, and security cameras pointing everywhere - I'm right next to a bank after all.

I swung back about three hours later, and it was still there - Yeah!

So I headed to the nearest subway station to catch the subway back to the hotel.

Tracklog

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Photos

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  I'm very close, so I'd better make like a tourist and document this bit of art.

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  Here we are - it's a bank!

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  Is this littering? The scene of the crime is being captured by multiple security cameras.

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  There's no way out - here's the goofy selfy.

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  The KEB Plaza. You can just make out my geohash 'poster' to the centre-left of the photo.

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  The KEB Plaza with a camera pointed a bit to the right of the last photo.

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  Currencies of the world.

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  I swung by three hours later - and it's still there. Spot the geohash 'poster' in the bottom left of the photo!

Achievements

Quaternary earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (37, 126) graticule, here, on 2014-05-04.

Quaternary earned the Globetrotter achievement by visiting hashpoints on 2 continents.

Quaternary earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (37, 126) geohash on 2014-05-04 via Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit:.

Quaternary has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (37, 126) geohash on 2014-05-04 without really trying.