Indonesia Across the Street?
Having lived in the same apartment building for the past 19 months, I've developed a mental map of the quickest or most convenient ways to reach particular destinations. While I don't always take these routes, they do often influence my travel on a day-to-day basis. Weekends are generally ideal for exploring side streets and other areas that get overlooked at other times, and this past weekend was spent walking around one such neighborhood. My apartment is located behind a 감자탕 restaurant on a main arterial road, and while I do sometimes pass through a corner of a neighborhood on the opposite side of the street, it wasn't until this past Saturday that I spent any serious time poking around the area.
I was surprised to find the Indonesian Migrant Workers' House so close to my apartment. (Just three or flour small-sized blocks away.) The most noticeable migrant community in my area hails from Mongolia - hopefully a topic for another time - which now has me wondering about the size of the Indonesian population in Uijeongbu, what jobs are most common, how well the community is connected to groups in other parts of Korea, and if the migrant workers center hosts any cultural activities. Of course, the easiest way to satisfy my curiosity would be to go inside and ask someone, but that would be too easy, right?
