Describing the city I live In

The Republic of Korea is located in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, East Asia. Most Koreans live in the seven big cites. As for me, I have lived in Daejeon for about 6 years.

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Incheon --- Seoul
Daejeon
Gwangju, Daegu
(Mokpo), Busan --- Ulsan
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You can find Daejeon in the center of South Korea. The Gyeryong mountain is located to the West of the city, and the Daecheong lake is to the East. In the middle, three streams, the Gapcheon, Yudeungcheon,  and Daejeoncheon, flow through the city from south to north, and they finally join in the Geum River. People thought it was a good place to farm. In Chinese, Daejeon (大田) means a large farm.

During the Japanese occupation of Korea, the Japanese government built a station and made three railroads. One is from Seoul to Daejeon, and from Daejeon to Busan. The other is from Daejeon to Mokpo. Based on these paths, the  Korean government also developed this city as a transportation hub. It’s a center of two major highways and KTX high-speed rail system. For this reason, this city grew rapidly to “Daejeon Metropolitan City” with a population of 1.5 million people.

In 1993, when I was an elementary school student, Daejeon hosted a big international exposition under the motto, “The Challenge of a New Road of Development.” I remember it was so fun to hang out with my friends in the Expo Science Park. The Hanbit tower in the park was a symbol of future science and technology of Korea.

Now, we increasingly consider Daejeon as South Korea's science city. There is the No.1 technical university, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), in this city. Also, Daedeok Research and Development Special Zone (Daedeok Innopolis) is composed of 28 government-funded research institutions, as well as 79 private research institutes. Daejeon also has a Korean Intellectual Property Office, as well as Patent Court of Korea. There are many jobs in knowledge-based industries and services.

The city is divided into five boroughs: Yuseonggu, Daedeokgu, Seogu, Junggu, and Donggu. One issue here is wealth inequality between the western and eastern regions. Yuseonggu, Daedeokgu, Seogu in the western region are more developed than Junggu, Donggu in the eastern region. Yuseonggu is still growing fast. People in the west prefer the democratic party and people in the east tend to vote for the conservative party. That's all for now

Sixth sense?

The rainy season has come to St.Petersburg.
Today I left home with my recently-bought beautiful umbrella. However, I had to return home to getsome things I had forgotten, and for some reason (I really do not know why) I changed the umbrella to another one (not so new and beautiful). And guess what? I lost my umbrella today! I even know where it I left it. But I realized its absence too late.
I hope the umbrella saved someone from the rain today. By the way, it was cloudy, but not rainy on my back way home. And my new umbrella is still with me))