Friday 19 July 2013

Morning Deliveries, Fruits and Veggies, and Cardboard

This restaurant has its food deliveries--here mostly vegetables--lined up outside the store waiting for when they open.  To me it's a pleasant view, a reminder of how little street-level crime crime there is in this area:


Next, and close by, is the outside of the small fruit and veggie shop where I buy fresh produce. They're also getting a delivery, but they're open for business:



Just around the corner--on the street where my English academy is, in one of the buildings further up--is a common sight in Korea.  It's a truck which someone uses for a private business to go around and collect cardboard to sell for recycling:


*cardboard recycling is not an ideal job, as those involved work long hours for what I think I can correctly assume is little pay.  Often the people doing the job are senior citizens, as Korea has traditionally had little or no public pension/support programs for the elderly.  (Children have been expected to fulfill that duty, one which--media reports--they are increasingly reluctant to do so (Thus China's recent law that children must support their parents.).)

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