there's a conference room on the inside

Vice magazine’s blogger Alex Hoban ran an article the other day about exploring a Boeing 747 jumbo jet abandoned in the foreground of a Seoul suburb’s high-rise community.  There are only a few words that can explain this find–unbelievable comes to mind when I see these pictures, jealous is another word.

Someone should just pay me to do urban exploring like this because I would bank so hard on it.  (Wait–apparently Vice magazine does pay someone to do this).  You can come across some of the most perplexing things exploring cities… in Wuhan, China I found an entire quarter of the city where (presumably) the French had erected old colonial houses, embassies, banks, apartments, etc.   All of it was totally abandoned, it was like some creepy French ghost-town in the middle of China (more on that, in a future post).

supposedly this is the 2nd boeing 747 ever manufactured

In Beijing, there were closed-off construction sites everywhere, where people who had refused to move were living in houses with one whole side of the building missing.  In Cleveland, there are a myriad of abandoned warehouses to check out (and I’ve seen a good number of them), as in most other American cities, especially the ones that suffered from loss of industry post-WWII.

I’m sure there is no end to it when you take all the metropolises of the world, but I could imagine a few that would be a gold mine to check out: Rio de Janeiro, London, Moscow, Tokyo, and now Seoul.

But this–this trumps anything I have ever seen in real life.  I mean, seriously, could you imagine waking up for kimchi and mandoo breakfast, eating  to a view like this out your window???

Hopefully I can check it out someday if I ever make it to Korea.

Full article and more pics here.