Photo by Jeffrey Alan Miller

I would think being a power/electrical line worker or cable installer in Korea has got to be one of the more demanding jobs in Korea, and especially in this one neighborhood of Daejeon. Demanding in that it takes a very special and dedicated kind of person to have to figure out which wires go where and not to get electrocuted in the process.

I can just imagine a worker scurrying up the pole and beginning to sort of these wires: “Now let’s see, the red one goes to this apartment and this black goes here and this black one goes there and this gray-looking wire goes over there. Okay, now this black one goes…oh shit, I lost my place.” Probably after repeating this five or six times it is time for a coffee break.

Just get a load of this photo. It would probably take one of these workers half the day just to figure out where all these wires go before adding more wires to the fray.

Photo by Jeffrey Alan Miller

And Heaven forbid there’s an electrical storm or thunderstorm that would zap everything you see here. Then again, might be better to start from scratch then to have to sort out this wire mess.