{"id":2592,"date":"2019-02-07T14:46:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T05:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/?p=2592"},"modified":"2026-02-21T14:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:48:11","slug":"20190207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/en\/blog\/20190207\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset on Ganghwa Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was already more than a month ago, but during my last business trip I made a visit to Ganghwa Island.<\/p>\n<p>It takes about an hour and a half by car from Seoul.<\/p>\n<p>I heard there was a good spot to watch the sunset, so I followed the navigation system, but ended up driving around and around near the destination.<\/p>\n<p>On those narrow roads where only one car can pass, when another car comes from the opposite direction, there\u2019s no point arguing about who has priority. In my case, I just immediately back up or give way. That happened quite a lot on this day\u2026 ^^;<\/p>\n<p>Since I had come all this way, I felt I had to eat something delicious before heading back, so I went with the classic choices: grilled shellfish and seafood kalguksu (knife-cut noodle soup).<\/p>\n<p>It was delicious!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ganghwa-do_10.jpg\" alt=\"Scenery of Ganghwa Island, Korea\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ganghwa-do_20.jpg\" alt=\"Scenery of Korea as seen by a Japanese resident in Korea\" \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ganghwa-do_30.jpg\" alt=\"Scenery of Korea as seen by a Japanese resident in Korea\" \/><\/center> <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/ganghwa-do_40.jpg\" alt=\"Scenery of Korea as seen by a Japanese resident in Korea\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was already more than a month ago, but during my last business trip I made a visit to Ganghwa Island. It ta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/?p=699","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itaba.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}