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Thursday, June 22, 2006

The Pony - Korea's Classic Car
From 추억의 승용차들 "아직 굴러다녀요":
The number is the number of models of the first Hyundai still on the road. I've only spotted two or three of them in my decade here. There's one owned by a professor at the university for which I work.

Korea is a country of modern cars. It's rare to see a car more than ten years old still on the road. One thing I like about visiting California, where my folks have resettled, is the number of classic cars on the road. It's almost like being in Cuba. Buffalo's rust eats up cars, so you don't see many classic cars in my hometown. You do see a lot of jalopies, though.