Korea COVID Travel BlogAfter over 2 hours driving we arrive at our quarantine complex in the city of Nonsan-si of the South Chungcheong Province in the west midlands of Korea. It’s an agricultural city with the main crops being rice and strawberries. In fact the city has a Strawberry Festival every Spring. Other local attractions (not that’ll be seeing them) are the large Buddist statue Eunjin Mireuk. Apparently it’s the tallest standing stone Buddha in Korea!
The apartment building is very much like a student accommodation building, other than outside there is a pool (the temperature is currently a very humid 33°C), sadly though i’ll only be able to look at it! The ground floor is a coffee shop and communal space (although it’s all closed), the plan had been that as we were all quarantining together we could use this space to socially distantly meet up, but due to a recent increase in cases from abroad the government is even hotter on quarantine venues and are doing regular spot checks. If we were all found together there would be trouble, so for now we are confined to our rooms.
I’ll go into more details on my room in a further post (as it’s one of the few things I can talk about!), and perhaps a short video tour. But as an overview my room which is also like my old student accommodation is basic, but clean and functional. You get a lounge with a sofa and a little kitchenette, a bedroom with a double bed, a tiny bathroom / shower and a balcony (although in 33°C humid heat i’ve spent nearly all the time inside with the AC!). There is a TV with satellite (mostly Korean channels), and an excellent 100mb internet connection!
You order food in advance and it is brought to you 3 times at day and dropped outside your door in a little tray. I’ll do a further post on this in more detail later, but worth saying the food is lovely.
So once i’d unpacked and touched base with home, I had dinner and settled in for the night to my new home for the next 2 weeks!
