Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Korea. Show all posts

Sunday, April 13, 2025

CAMP BONIFAS, KOREA

 Camp Bonifas is home to the United Nations Command Security Battalion-Joint Security Area (JSA), whose primary mission is to monitor and enforce the Korean Armistice Agreement of 1953 between North and South Korea.

There is a par 3 one-hole "golf course" at the camp which includes an AstroTurf green and is surrounded on three sides by minefields. Sports Illustrated called it "the most dangerous hole in golf" and there are reports that at least one shot detonated a land mine.



Friday, October 4, 2019

63 BUILDING



The 63 Building, officially called 63 SQUARE is a skyscraper on Yeouido Island, overlooking the Han River in Seoul, South Korea.

·         At 819 feet in height, it was the tallest building outside North America when it opened in July, 1985.
·         It stood as South Korea’s tallest building until the Hyperion Tower surpassed it in 2003.
·         It is the tallest gold-clad structure in the world
·         The 60th floor houses the world’s highest art gallery


63 Building, Seoul, South Korea

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

FLOOR NUMBERING IN ELEVATORS IN EAST ASIA


Because the Chinese, Sino-Japanese, Sino-Korean and Sino-Vietnamese word for four sounds quite similar to the word for death, floor numbers containing a 4 are often skipped in buildings, ranging from hotels to offices to apartments, as well as hospitals.


ELEVATOR PANEL IN BUILDING IN CHINA