Mustang Valley Demolition

This post will probably not be of much interest to you until you have lived at Osan or, more specifically, at Osan in Seoraksan Tower. However, I have to vent about the current bane of my existence: the demolition of Mustang Valley Village. For those of you who are not familiar with the area, Mustang Valley Village is the old military family housing unit here at Osan. The buildings have been condemned and abandoned for years while new housing tours sprung up around them, namely Seoraksan Tower, located directly behind it. Due to some bickering with the Korean government (SURPRISE!), it has taken forever for the Air Force to get permission to actually demolish the buildings. But, lucky us, they finally got permission this past August and the demolition began . . . and so did the constant headache and increasing frustration of all Seoraksan Tower residents (especially grumpy ones, like me).

Soon, we were dealing with loud bangs and crashes 7 days a week (although, give them props--they are HARD workers. They even worked on weekends, which was awesome when you are trying to sleep in), insane traffic patterns (for those that know the area, they turned the way road to Seoraksan into a two-way--not kidding. Yikes.), and construction workers directing traffic for no reason (case-in-point: the one guy who sat next to the stop sign on the way out of Mustang Valley. He waves his little wand and says "stop" in Korean over and over. Soooo. . . .copy, dude. Follow the rules of a stop sign. Got it.) Let's not even mention the dust and abestos constantly floating in the air.

So anyways, I had a perfect view of my balcony of the process, and I thought I'd share. This is what it looked like before. Ahhhh. . . many people would pay top dollar for a view like this one. I mean, come on, abandoned housing? You can't put a price on the beauty of that ;)

Hard to see, but they started the demolition on the buildings on the far-side of the complex. . .

Looking towards the Indoor Pool. . .

All finished with the buildings on the Indoor Pool side. . .

Look at those wide open spaces. . .

. . . they have to be almost done!

Nope! Two more buildings to go. . .

Now, it may appear that they are pretty much done, but they are still out there, tearing up roads and digging random holes. I'm sure there's a reason for it all, but it's a bit maddening at the moment. *Sigh* As are most things when you live in the land of the "not-quite-right."