An amazing comparison (atleast to me)

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A picture – taken by me – of the main drag of Nam Yang Korea in  1964

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A picture – from about the same place of Namyang, Korea now (lifted from Google Maps).

It turns out that a Korean who was stationed at the same place in 1979 ran into my post and was able to send me the Google map – uh? I guess that is really any map – coordinates which allowed me to find Namyang (I have been spelling it wrong, but I did have the name right). Then it was a matter of opening the picture gizmos and there was Namyang as it is today. To me, the change is staggering.

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Near our old Compound, is a new hotel, The Hotel Rolling Hills which seems much more deluxe than my old digs.

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Even the local Buddhist Temple has been updated,  from this

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to this

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I am sure that there are places in the United States that have changed this much but none where I have lived.

 

One thought on “An amazing comparison (atleast to me)

  1. Greetings Steve:
    You brought back some memories I had put on the back burner for all these years. I appreciate your effort to share your experience.
    I left C battery in February 1965. I was trained as a missle crewman (MOS 174), but was the battery courier for most of my time there.
    I remember loseing a drive line on a 2 1/2 ton(M36) on the street you show of Nam Yang. Half a dozen Korean men jumped in and had me going in about 30 minutes. Nowhere else in the world would that happen. Looks like their hard work and industy has paid off.
    If you wrote a book on our experiences their, people would think it was fiction.
    Thanks again.

    Ross Williams

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