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South Korea was like this too but they thankfully switched recently. It's not uncommon to receive addresses in both the old and new style since most locals grew

by awad 2y ago

South Korea was like this too but they thankfully switched recently. It's not uncommon to receive addresses in both the old and new style since most locals grew up on the former.

bane 2y ago
The new South Korean addressing scheme is kind of a mess and I think a missed opportunity. i.e. Street names (gil) can be derived from larger roads (ro). e.g. Toegrye-ro is the major road, and Toegye-ro 48-gil is a street that branches from it. Odd number gil are on one side (Toegye-ro 49-gil, 51-gil etc.) and even (48-gil, 50-gil, etc.) on the other. But then there's not really an addressable road beneath the ro (okay, alleys I guess), so you also end up with multiple Toegye-ro 50-gils, some of which just change names to other multiple numbered gils as you cross intersections, but some don't. So the specific street names are rather localized, and somewhat just replace the function served by navigating by area. Building numbers are somewhat sane, but don't map to the street frontage, meaning the numbered streets have no alignment to the numbered buildings, yet the building numbers already use an ascending or descending dashed system (e.g. 89-2) that's supposed to help in navigating at the sub-ro level (alleys again). So the great re-addressing effort didn't really add a lot of navigational power over the previous system. And in practice, even with GPS, many people just find the numbered -gil or use the old address and just ask a local for directions or walk around for a while hoping to find the thing they're looking for. Example: Take a look at the link below, at the nearby area, and tell me how many Toegye-ro 50-gils there are! https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seoul,+South+Korea/@37.5618716,127.0007116,20.21z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x357ca2012d5c39cf:0x7e11eca1405bf29b!8m2!3d37.5518911!4d126.9917937!16zL20vMGhzcWY?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seoul,+South+Korea/@37.561...

by awad 2y ago

South Korea was like this too but they thankfully switched recently. It's not uncommon to receive addresses in both the old and new style since most locals grew up on the former.

bane 2y ago

The new South Korean addressing scheme is kind of a mess and I think a missed opportunity. i.e. Street names (gil) can be derived from larger roads (ro). e.g. Toegrye-ro is the major road, and Toegye-ro 48-gil is a street that branches from it. Odd number gil are on one side (Toegye-ro 49-gil, 51-gil etc.) and even (48-gil, 50-gil, etc.) on the other. But then there's not really an addressable road beneath the ro (okay, alleys I guess), so you also end up with multiple Toegye-ro 50-gils, some of which just change names to other multiple numbered gils as you cross intersections, but some don't. So the specific street names are rather localized, and somewhat just replace the function served by navigating by area. Building numbers are somewhat sane, but don't map to the street frontage, meaning the numbered streets have no alignment to the numbered buildings, yet the building numbers already use an ascending or descending dashed system (e.g. 89-2) that's supposed to help in navigating at the sub-ro level (alleys again). So the great re-addressing effort didn't really add a lot of navigational power over the previous system. And in practice, even with GPS, many people just find the numbered -gil or use the old address and just ask a local for directions or walk around for a while hoping to find the thing they're looking for. Example: Take a look at the link below, at the nearby area, and tell me how many Toegye-ro 50-gils there are! https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seoul,+South+Korea/@37.5618716,127.0007116,20.21z/data=!4m6!3m5!1s0x357ca2012d5c39cf:0x7e11eca1405bf29b!8m2!3d37.5518911!4d126.9917937!16zL20vMGhzcWY?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Seoul,+South+Korea/@37.561...