This video has more urban content than most of what I share but I haven’t recently seen many good videos that also feature some of the natural landscape of South Korea, and this one does, so enjoy!
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“Made in Korea.
Once a year, my girlfriend, Hana, goes home to Jeju Island in South Korea to visit her family for Christmas. Last year I went along, with my camera.
Seaweed Farms?
Seaweed is practically a staple food in coastal East Asia, and you’ll find it in restaurants and supermarkets across the globe. Today, 90% of it comes from seaweed farms. This image, captured by NASA’s Landsat 8 satellite, shows seaweed farms off the coast of South Korea.
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6 peaks of Ulsanbawi (also called Ulsan Rock), some mesozoic aged granites in Seoraksan National Park, South Korea
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Jeju Island, South Korea
Jeju (sometimes known as Samdado) is a small volcanic island off the southwest coast of South Korea. In 2007 it was recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site because of it’s geology. The island was formed 2 million years ago and is still considered active.
Mt. Halla (Hallasan) is one of the only large shield volcanoes to form over a stationary continental plate hot spot. While the mountain has the typical shield volcano morphology, is actually a shelfal shield volcano that initially formed from shallow water, phreatomagmatic eruptions. These are explosive due to the direct mixing of lava with water. As the volcano built up above sea level, the eruptions became effusive and formed the shield volcano we know today. The first image shows the sun setting over Mt. Halla.
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Climbing over granite boulders high in Seoraksan National Park (Mount Sorak), South Korea
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Jeju Island in South Korea boasts some extraordinary geographical features, including an active volcano - Hallasan - which stands at 1,950 metres, dominating the island’s topography.
Shot in October 2018.
North Korea by night.
Across much of the world, coastlines and borders are clearly outlined in the patterns of city lights, though in this case only the borders can be seen as there are few lights along the North Korean coast. China is the lit up area to the north of the image, while the bright line of the DMZ (de militarised zone, an ironic euphemism for a giant minefield filled with bright searchlights with lookout posts and army bases strung all along it on both sides of the border) separating North from South Korea, and the city lights of the latter to the south of the dark patch that is North Korea are obvious. The contrast in development comes out clearly in the relative brightness of the two capital cities, Pyongyang (the light dot on its own at image centre) and Seoul (the huge white blob centre right).
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Image credit: NASA
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83182&src=fb
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