Escaping the concrete and congestion...

Living in Seoul isn't so bad with cheap and efficient public transport, reasonably priced restaurants, a certain order to be found in even the most crowded and traffic-ridden streets. Try comparing it with somewhere like 'life-on-the-edge' Bangkok which is certainly thrilling as a farang tourist but probably hell to live in on a daily basis. Recently there has been a strong attempt at making the city greener with garden landscaping around buildings and tree-lined streets.
But even so, the country lad in me is yearning to get out of the concrete jungle and explore mountain passes and camp in remote forests next to the seashore. That's probably why so much of my photography takes place in natural settings rather than in the city itself. Guess I'll never be all that urbane, but who cares.