Disapprearing things : Shoe Store
Shoe store was very famous near Seoul Station. People had been crowded all day long. Merchants from each provinces were busy to buy good shoes first. Shoe makers had earned much money. Once this place was downtown.
Old memories made me visit the shoe store alley. The glory of the past was disappearing. Shoe store was getting less and less. Some shoe stores were closed.
They displayed the shoes in front of the store but I couldn’t feel vigorous on the street
I couldn’t see people on the street.
Entering the shoe store, I asked the business condition to the owner. He told me the shoe business was over in Korea.
The Shoemaker couldn’t make shoes anymore. It is not easy to maintain their daily life only with making the shoes. They need to find another job to live. People do not want to learn how to make the shoes. Beside, it took several years to learn how to make the shoes. Who could learn shoemaking technology without paying. Rarely there are some hand made shoe technicians, but it is too expensive to buy handmade shoes for common users. So it would be hard to keep up handmade shoe business
This shoes street would be disappeared not for long time. We could not see crowded and loud scenery in this street any more. In their voice, there were life.
Too many things are disappearing in my generation. Most of them had been continued for several hundred years.
There are no exception in disappearing and oblivion. Nothing could escape from the oblivion, including myself. And the world would be renewed from the oblivion. That’s the principle of the world.
But I am sad, when I notice that acquainted things are being forgotten.
I am thinking again how to live with seeing the disappearing things
I feel a lot of this has happen because of big box stores. We have gotten away from have the quality of a good product as well as great relationships that you forged with local store owners. Nothing seems personal anymore due to the computer age we are removing cashiers from the retail store, we no longer call someone to have a conversation due to texting and we no longer get together for gathering instead he head to the hangout! Not all are bad but we as a generation are setting ourselves up for more robotic technologies to take over our everyday to day operations.
Yup you get it. I refuse to use the 'automatic pay line' (don't know how to call it) in the store so cashiers will hopefully stay. It's an easy job for students etc.
A piece of writing that makes everybody sad, including me. And oh, look at the shoes! The seem very very lonely and tired sitting on the display all day long, not sure if anyone would come over and touch them.
Those are such beautiful pictures its sad when the old disappear and what your used to that is an old profession is dying, more its regular shoe stores with cheap shoes , the business is a dying breed but that is the wave of the future I miss the old days
Time passes and things change, @slowwalker. But change is not just a result of Time - change is the very nature of Time.
I wrote a novel about this very subject and I've had to deal with this struggle in my own life. It's hard having to let go of precious things.
So, your post today is full of nostalgia for a life that is slowly passing away, and the real challenge is not to hold on to what used to be, but to embrace the world in which we now live.
Spending a lifetime to learn a trade to perform a task a machine can do is a waste of a life. Yes, machine goods are not as good quality as handmade, but the time that is freed up can be put to good use - and that's what you did walking around Seoul City, observing and reflecting and honouring the traditions of the past.
A thoughtful post, @slowalker
Things and how we do things are always changing. This can be sad when one reflects. Sort of like the "good old days. " But things change and evolve and one must adapt and change or get left behind. This goes for life and business. You're either growing or dying. Sad at times, but it is the only way we can grow and get, "new and improve" version/ variety. Like your post.
Wow this upsetting but happens with technology....If block chain does grow to the size we think it will, a lot of people will lose jobs. But that is the case with growing technology anyway.
Thank you for comment
business changes ... so sad.
so,.... there are shoes in Seoul.
thank you for the sharing those grat photos @slowwalker
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