{"id":65687,"date":"2026-03-28T07:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=65687"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T11:24:22","slug":"mark-shares-some-sights-and-sounds-from-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/mark-shares-some-sights-and-sounds-from-south-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark shares some sights and sounds from South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> 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:<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thomas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I&#8217;ve been catching up on cataloguing pictures and videos from my Korea trip.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I&#8217;ve enclosed a picture taken through the Seoul North Tower observation window of an adjacent radio mast.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-scaled.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65688\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1440\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-scaled.jpeg 1440w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-169x300.jpeg 169w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-576x1024.jpeg 576w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-768x1366.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-864x1536.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-1152x2048.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seoul-North-Tower-Antenna-624x1110.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">You can also see a view of Seoul along with its dubious air quality !<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I&#8217;ve posted these radio-related YouTube videos:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>AFN Korea<\/strong> &#8211; War in Iran:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-JA-0uNxsCU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>MBC FM4U<\/strong> &#8211; Reporting on a fire at a &#8216;capsule&#8217; hotel in Myeong-dong<br \/>\nI embedded English translations generated by the Korean language app, NAVER Papago:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNimoYq02E8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Mark<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thank you, Mark! Wow&#8211;I can&#8217;t imagine being a guest in a capsule hotel during a fire&#8211;that sounds terrifying. And thank you for that photo of the Seoul North Tower&#8211;great shot!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve been catching up on cataloguing pictures and videos from my Korea trip. I&#8217;ve enclosed a picture taken through the Seoul North Tower [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3781,3,1154],"tags":[1078,11072,5458,11071,5355],"class_list":["post-65687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fm","category-news","category-travel","tag-afn","tag-afn-korea","tag-mark-hirst","tag-mbc-fm4u","tag-south-korea"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-h5t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":64153,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/a-radio-postcard-from-seoul\/","url_meta":{"origin":65687,"position":0},"title":"A Radio Postcard from Seoul","author":"Thomas","date":"October 5, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Mark Hirst, who shares the following guest post: A Radio Postcard from Seoul by Mark Hirst I recently spent a very memorable week in Seoul, motivated to travel there by\u00a0Hallyu\u00a0or the\u00a0Korean Wave, a cultural phenomena exemplified by the TV show\u00a0Squid Game, animated movie\u00a0K-Pop Demon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;AM&quot;","block_context":{"text":"AM","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/am\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kbs-apps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kbs-apps.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kbs-apps.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/kbs-apps.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":36768,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/an-aircraft-hijacking-story-with-a-shortwave-twist\/","url_meta":{"origin":65687,"position":1},"title":"An aircraft hijacking story with &#8220;a shortwave twist&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"April 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mark Fahey, who writes: [A] great aircraft hijacking story with a shortwave twist.... 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