Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who recently returned from a trip to South Korea and, at my request, is sharing some sights and sounds with us. Mark writes:
Thomas,
I’ve been catching up on cataloguing pictures and videos from my Korea trip.
I’ve enclosed a picture taken through the Seoul North Tower observation window of an adjacent radio mast.
You can also see a view of Seoul along with its dubious air quality !
I’ve posted these radio-related YouTube videos:
AFN Korea – War in Iran:
MBC FM4U – Reporting on a fire at a ‘capsule’ hotel in Myeong-dong
I embedded English translations generated by the Korean language app, NAVER Papago:
Mark
Thank you, Mark! Wow–I can’t imagine being a guest in a capsule hotel during a fire–that sounds terrifying. And thank you for that photo of the Seoul North Tower–great shot!
I was wondering how close you were to the tower? If you didn’t use a zoom lens, I bet your RF exposure intensity might have been in the dangerous range!
This brings back a memory when I got a call early one Sunday morning from a friend complaining that nearly all of the over the air TV stations in Chicago were not coming in. I thought at first that it was his TV antenna, but I checked my TV & had the same problem. Turns out, a TV station was undergoing maintenance, but it was located on a tall downtown building with several other TV stations. Because of RF exposure hazards, all had to be shut down to allow maintenance for this lone station…
I took the picture using a wide angle lens from the viewing gallery of the North Seoul Tower. As far as I’m aware, the tower and the North Tower itself are used for local FM and TV broadcasting, including MBC which is the subject of one of the videos.