Street Names
Korea, of course, has their own way to name streets and such. There are three main things to keep in mind when figuring out where you are and where you are going.1. There are 4 kinds of streets. Dae-rlo (slur the r and l together, dae is said as day): they are large boulevards such as Gwanghwamun Dae-ro. Ro: What we would term an avenue (or wider street). Gil (said as geel): which are narrower and/or side streets. And, the unnamed...simply too small to warrant a name, these are many of the smaller streets and alleys in the city (although I have seen alleys with the name gil as well).2. Important avenues, such as Jongno (sometimes no replaces ro), are broken up into sections according to the major cross-streets. Unlike Western way, where you might say Robson & Thurlow, they just number the cross-street and call them ga. Jongno-sam(3)-ga means "the area where the third major cross street...
