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The Sanchon Hunjang(usually clicking on the photos yields an enlarged version)
3/23/2006
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So you build a new building. Right in the middle of 남대문시장--sorry, I meant 숭례문시장. It looks nice and sparkly. This new building is sure to garner you a mint. Well, if you can get shoppers to come in and peruse the merchandise of the sellers, who you are gouging for 자리세, then it will.
Brilliant brainstorm! If you have some beautiful brass letters made to announce where people can enter/exit the building and have them installed in the street, surely the people will come in droves, no? And since 숭례문시장 is so popular among the Japanese tourists, best make the sign in 한자.
Beautiful. You're sure to make a mint!
'cept you got screwed, aesthetically speaking, when those minimum wage laborers installed your sign:
Surely they wouldn't have made it "
"? Or would they...?
Brilliant brainstorm! If you have some beautiful brass letters made to announce where people can enter/exit the building and have them installed in the street, surely the people will come in droves, no? And since 숭례문시장 is so popular among the Japanese tourists, best make the sign in 한자.
Beautiful. You're sure to make a mint!
'cept you got screwed, aesthetically speaking, when those minimum wage laborers installed your sign:
Surely they wouldn't have made it "
"? Or would they...?
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Bear with me here...the last character (口) is upside down...so perhaps it represents the inverse of what it normally means. (A mouth through which food leaves the body rather than enters it?) So when you enter (入口에 들어가다) the market, you're actually exiting, and when you exit (出口에서 나가다) the market, you're actually entering!
There you go, a pseudo-metaphysical explanation for a typo—er, inlayo.
Never mind.
There you go, a pseudo-metaphysical explanation for a typo—er, inlayo.
Never mind.
P.S.: I think they just call it 남대문 시장. True, 숭례문 is the proper name of the gate itself, but I doubt if it's ever applied to the market. (But feel free to correct me on this.)
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