Mokpo is a small town in South Korea, but it will become more and more familiar to F1 fans from 2010.  The lenght of the track, now still in construction phase, will be 5.45 km (3.39 mile). It is located in Yeongam County , South Jeolla Province.

The Korean International Circuit is located near an Industrial zone, but not far from Mokpo downtown (20 - 30′ by car).

The tracK layout:

Work in progress:

Some other photos of the track under construction, taken on October 2009.

Chan-Wook Park is one of the most popular filmmakers in his South Korea. Actually I heard about him before coming here. His big succcesses are well know in Italy, too.  Ok, of course, who usually watches Carlo Vanzina’s movies does not know Chan-Wook Park .

The most famous movies are those included in the so-called Vengeance Trilogy (even if It was not originally intended to be a trilogy):

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) Original trailer (korean)

Oldboy (2003) Original trailer (korean)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) Original trailer (korean)

Subjects are sometimes brutal but the the style and the feeling and music is wonderful. Wathcing them is a must before coming to South Korea. My favourite one is Old Boy.

 LINKS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chan-wook

Mokpo is a small town located in the South Western part of South Korea. At least Koreans say this is a small town.

Mokpo logo

  Based on my feelings it is not so little, but I am looking with my european eyes. The citizens are more or less 260.000, however someone continue naming Mokpo “a village”. Korean standard, in terms of city sizes is quite different from the euopean one, anyway even big cities are livable in Korea.

Some data about Mokpo:

Area 47.92 km2 (18.50 sq mi) / many new areas in development
Population (2006) 241,679 / growing fastly
Population density 5,196.5 /km² (13,459 /sq mi) / it will be higher and higher: korean people like very high block of flats.
Administrative divisions: 22 dong

mokpo from satellite

Links:

General information

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokpo

Maps:

http://www.worldmapfinder.com/En/Asia/Korea/Mokpo/