This is the view from our balcony. We live on the sixth floor so we get a neat view (in my opinion). We're really blessed - we live in the last set of parallel rows of apartments, so we get to see the city and all the other buildings look directly into the building infront and behind them. The green netting you see in the middle of the picture is a driving range. Koreans have a great sense of nationalism - they will warmly embrace anything that a Korean is really good at. I think the #1 or 2 female golfer right now is Korean, so there are a whole ton of driving ranges on top of buildings.
This is what's going on underneath our balcony. It's this whole market street with all these old ladies ("Ajjumas" - it's a term used for any older lady, and it means somewhere around Grandma and Ma'am) and they sell whatever is in season. It's such a blessing being able to walk out our front door and peruse all sorts of incredibly fresh produce every day. They also sell fish out of styrofoam boxes packed with ice, but those are less appealing.
This is the Korean equivalent of those statues you see on Easter Island. I think they've got something to do with the gods protecting something or other, but you'll see these statues at tourist places and on anything to do with Jeju Island (the Korean Hawaii), which is where this style of statue is from.
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