{"id":4143,"date":"2014-04-27T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2014-04-27T14:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T14:00:27","slug":"bicycles-as-environmental-symbols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2014\/04\/27\/bicycles-as-environmental-symbols\/","title":{"rendered":"Bicycles as environmental symbols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the weirdest things you will find in Korea is the use of bicycles as decoration. Many chick cafes, office buildings and markets will have an attractive bicycle parked in front to indicate some sort of environmental awareness and give a down-home feeling to the place.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4144\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0271.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4144\" src=\"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/img_0271.jpg?w=630\" alt=\"Useless bicyle\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Useless bicyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The odd part is that these attractive bicycles are never used. This bicycle in the window of a consulting firm&#8217;s office is typical. The attractive bicyles\u00a0just sits there all day long \u00a0to be observed. Bicycles are little more than symbols of another possible Korea that simply does not exist. We find a parallel in the extensive bike paths that were built under President Lee Myung Bak. These paths go on for miles, but they are often cut off from residential communities by freeways and otherwise extremely impractical to use. In many cases, one must brave dangerous traffic to get to and from them. There really has not been any serious effort to integrate the bicycle into Korean society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the weirdest things you will find in Korea is the use of bicycles as decoration. Many chick cafes, office buildings and markets will have an attractive bicycle parked in front to indicate some sort of environmental awareness and give a down-home feeling to the place. The odd part is that these attractive bicycles &#8230; <a title=\"Bicycles as environmental symbols\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2014\/04\/27\/bicycles-as-environmental-symbols\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bicycles as environmental symbols\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10990001],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}