The Garages of Korea: High Rises and Exotic Cars
- Duration: 4:04
- Published: 2010-01-30
- Uploaded: 2010-10-27
- Author: Michaelsmani
(Sorry for extremely long description, I just had a lot to say) I've wanted to make this type of video for a while. When car-spotters usually upload videos, it's only the vehicle, and most of the time nothing else belonging to the owner. This video is a bit different because I show the cars, and the owner's house. Korea is a small country, and very mountainous and rugged. Because of this, average suburban houses where you would find in America or Europe are extremely rare and expensive. Here everything is built up. These apartments and high rises can get from villas that are only a few floors tall, to soaring skyscrapers topping out at 60-70 floors. In my video, you will see the high rises in my 'neighborhood', which is a strip of road carving in and out from the coast and the ocean (I like to refer this as the Speed Stretch because there is no speed limit on the road, and every time I looked out my window I would see exotics lined alongside it and accelerate really fast!). The buildings have spectacular views, depending on what they're overlooking; on one side you would see the beach and the ocean. On the other you would see the amazing suspension bridge and the mountains. Take note that in each of these buildings lives hundreds of people, so a 'neighborhood' would really be just an apartment. But I like to consider it the whole area. Also a few of the other high rises you see in this video are scattered in my district. In Busan, there is also another area with many <b>...</b>