Wow, funny, that Blade Runner thing. I think it’s worth thinking about… is it partly because it’s Asia we’re in? I saw bigscreen billboard things in NYC but I never thought of Blade Runner somehow.

You’re quite welcome for the history, and of course, dig in — there’s more. (And make sure you go out to Mireuksan… there’s the remnants of a pagoda there, and also great restaurants with the best fresh kimchi ever.)

Many of the things that you mentioned are still similar here. It has grown a bit and developed more, yet at the same time I see some people that look right out of the past.

I just wanted to thank for a little history on the town.

You know Iksan! Woah! I haven’t been back in a few years, but I’ve been thinking about the city lately, and miss it sometimes. Iksan people is good people. So by definition, you is, matrilineally, good people. (Actually, I find Jeolla people in general to my liking. Very reminiscent of Saskatchewan people, which is where I’m from. Can’t really live in either place anymore, but in general I like the people a lot.)

Well, I was trying to give the town a treatment à la the kind of thing Matt at Gusts of Popular Feeling does for Bucheon in the post I linked above. I don’t have the historical chops, but I tried. :)

Looking forward to the second half… as well as a break from posting about this! (One more to go!)

You describe Iksan so lovingly it nearly broke my heart. My maternal grandparents are buried there, so I visited there often.

As to the next post, Rob and I decided to have it ready on the weekend after this one.