Jucha 2

There seems to be a requirement in Korea that parking attendants wear cowboy hats. Exactly what set of historical contingencies has led to this rather bizarre re-coding of cultural iconography is not clear to me.

This guy is directing traffic at Severance Hospital. The parking attendants at the big Hyundai Department Store in Shinchon have similar uniforms.


As a follow-up to the earlier post on parking, here's a picture I took recently of a long line of "no parking" jugs on our little street.