new blog picture

I really like my new blog picture.

Its overlooking the Han River in Seoul. The picture was taken from the roof of TechnoMart. TechnoMart is a huge electronics store. My camera has a great zoom. Pretty good detail for a 3x optical 10xdigital.

In the picture you can see how crowded everything is. There are tons of buildings in the background. Probably mostly apartments/businesses. Over here there are tons of businesses in one building-hagwons, gyms, restuarants,stores, pc cafes, photo studios-all of those could be in one large building with many floors. Almost everyone lives in apartments. They arent little apartment builings like the USA in little communities. They are just huge buildings that are everywhere. My officetel has 17 floors.(officetel=hotel + office)

South Korea is way overpopulated. Land area is 38,000 sq miles. There is a population of @49,540,367. There is a population density of 1,274 people per sq mile. That's 49,000,000 people living in an area thats almost half the size of florida.

I live in Seoul which has a land area of 233 sq miles. Its one of the largest cities in the world by population. In Seoul there is a population of 10,000,000(the metropolitan city)(there's 24,000,000 if you include the National capital area). Thats a population density of 44,000 people per sq mile. As a comparison-its smaller than Charlotte, NC. Could you imagine 10,000,000 people living in Charlotte??