The Wooribank

June 6, 2008 | John Leland 1789

[John Leland 1789]

The photo was taken from across a four-lane boulevard (WuZhong Road) in south Shanghai City, China. Waiting for a bus, I could get no closer. I appologize for the poor quality. I carry a little mass storage device that happens to have a cheap camara installed. The major function of the unit is MP3/4 ; the camara is a low quality 2 megapixel piece of junk. But I do catch some amazing things from-time-to-time.

If you can blow up the photo just a bit, you will see a new bank that opened near our place in Shanghai. It is called . . .

WOORI BANK

Would you put your money in a bank called, "Woori Bank"?

My first thought was that thay must have opened up that bank for Americans in Shanghai.

Americans these days have their money and their affections in the Woori Bank.

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." Matthew 6:19-21 KJB, of course.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It is actually a very well known Korean bank, and it is not even pronounced like “Worry”.

[John Leland 1789]

Cut it out! I’m having fun.

[Gondring]

Cut it out! I’m having fun.

See? I wasn't joking about the flame-retardant jammies step! :-)

[John Leland 1789]

See? I wasn’t joking about the flame-retardant jammies step! :-)

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I slipping on those jammies now!

My dad used to ask people if they would like to see a picture of his “pride and joy.” When they said, “Sure!,” He would pull from his wallet a photo of a bottle of Joy dishwashing detergent and a can of Pride scouring cleanser. He would do that whenever people were passing pictures of grand kids around and stuff.

I remember people criticising him for that! They’s flat get upset!

[goldstategop]

Today, you can take pictures all over China... the Party's dead hand has not stifled the freedom people have. No one looks much to Beijing for guidance. Chinese are more interested in living the good life and being an advanced country than they are in Marxism and the dialectics of equality. Which even the Party has renounced.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[John Leland 1789]

“Today, you can take pictures all over China...”

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There are yet a few places where it's best not to be seen with a camera out and in use, but you are basically correct. There is freedom of movement, and I have never been stopped on the street in China and asked for my ID.

Temporary residence forms must still be filed with the Public Security Bureau (when you stay in a hotel or rent an apartment).

One thing I have noticed in Shanghai — an exponential increase in the use of surveillance cameras in public areas: public parks, shopping malls, lobbies and corridors of commercial buildings, hotels, etc.