Day 169 of Living in Korea: Car elevator!

A few weeks ago, I went a wedding. One of my co-teachers was getting married, so a couple of us hopped in the car, drove down to Apgujeong, and tried to find a place to park. Unfortunately, the area of Apgujeong that the wedding hall is in is a very confusing, maze-like place. My poor co-teacher (not the one getting married) drove around and around, before we finally found the parking garage for the wedding hall/convention center. Here, I got to experience something for the first time-a car elevator! Korea doesn't have wide open spaces like we do in the States, at least not in Seoul. To get around this, they've dug basements below a large percentage of buildings to park cars in. Usually there's a ramp to take down, but there wasn't even room to build a ramp. So they installed an elevator!



When we went down, we didn't even realize that we were moving. It was very smooth and very quiet. But on the way back up, I quickly pulled out my handy-dandy little camera and took a short video!