As most friends and family know, I have come back to Daegu for the spring to cover a shift at my old company Moonkkang. To be honest, I was not especially excited about coming back, as I had hoped that my MA signalled the end of my hagwon life. However, things have ended up working out for the best. I got a job with a Canadian college in Nanning, in China. I also have had an opportunity to help out my old company and see a part of Daegu that I have never been to in all the years I have been to, Chilgok.
Chilgok is in the far northwest of the city, as opposed to Seongseo and Sangin which are both in the southwest, and where I have spent my entire time here in Daegu. Living here has given me a chance to ride the monorail, as it was built to service Chilgok. The neighbourhood is mostly made up of families who work at the factories and refineries in neighbouring Gyeongsan-buk do, but who live in Daegu to take advantage of the education system and amenities the city affords them. It is a nice, if small neighbourhood that is also directly under the main air traffic route from Daegu airport and the air force base to the rest of Korea. Many low flying planes. There is also a nice park, a decent ddokkbokki place, and a couple of nice pubs (hofs), including a makgeolli place just around the corner from my house.
The downside of this area is that it is FAR from virtually everywhere else in Daegu, and will run 15,000 won to get anywhere in the city. Because of that I only go out to see Zeke downtown, or visit Yen's old friends at the best Chicken bar on the planet, Chickn: the Home, or meet to go to Anjirang for gopchang, Daegu's delicacy and the dish I will truly miss come July. Otherwise I play Travian with Paul online and just try to kill time until I head to Manila at the end of July.
I know that within a year of leaving I will be very nostalgic for Daegu, but for now I am just ready for the next phase of my life (Nov 2016 - already get nostalgic regularly).
Anyway, here are a few pictures:
Daegu Chicken.
NOT the greatest Chicken bar in Daegu
Chilgok
park by my apartment
Anjirang.
Greatest BBQ street on earth.
Janggidong
Giant church in Chilgok
the monorail station near my place
the tracks
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