{"id":2425,"date":"2013-03-10T21:54:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T21:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2425"},"modified":"2018-01-17T16:35:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T16:35:41","slug":"the-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/the-office","title":{"rendered":"The Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The views from our new deVOL design offices at Cotes Mill are a little more calming than the view I had in my previous job in South Korea. Play both videos for a side by side comparison!<\/p>\n<p>Gazing down from the 15th Floor of the Elite building in Sinchon, downtown Seoul often made me slightly dizzy, but appreciative that I didn&#8217;t have the job of the lone traffic conductor often standing in the middle of all that madness. Well, I might have sped the video up a tad but I\u2019m glad I don\u2019t have to cross those roads anymore.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"vidResp\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sinchon, Seoul\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/61479753?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"vidResp\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cotes Mill\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/61473801?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>As well as being fast-paced, Seoulites do hold onto some traditions which makes the city an eclectic mix of ultra modern and old school. Oversized touch-screen street computers with maps and free phones sit alongside cobblers kiosks waiting to fix up your shoes for a small fee, making sure you\u2019re always on the right path and well shod.<\/p>\n<p>When the long rainy season came I was treated to displays of countless pedestrians popping open their obligatory umbrellas (wearing a raincoat in Seoul is akin to wearing a spacesuit) to protect their suits from the frequent downpours and the few who had forgotten theirs running for cover, perhaps for a quick snack in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tteokbokki\" target=\"_blank\">tteokbokki<\/a> stand.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure megacities are really for me though, I\u2019m much happier with the Leicestershire countryside as my screensaver and I can&#8217;t wait to see how things develop outside now that spring is on it&#8217;s way!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The views from our new deVOL design offices at Cotes Mill are a little more calming than the view I had in my previous&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":15489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[796],"tags":[32,4,51],"class_list":["post-2425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-food","tag-cotes-mill","tag-new","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19082,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2425\/revisions\/19082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devolkitchens.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}