So Korea is all atwitter about the city of Yeosu's bid to host the
2012 World Expo. So I was watching a fifteen minute series of promotional 'news' stories on the evening news yesterday when a computer generated flyby of the future city of Yeosu caught my eye.

I said to myself I said "Self, you've seen that building before." And indeed I had,. It's the
Burj Al Arab, or a facsimile thereof.

But that's not the only thing in the picture that you would be, um, unlikely to see in the present or future anywhere near Yeosu. Like The backpages of a Where's Waldo book, see if you can find
- a biplane
- four cruise ships
- a tall sailing ship
- three Costcos in a row
- the entire Vegas Strip
- a manly man under the age of forty
Also check out the mascot (and "auxiliary mascot")

Here they are in a variety of fun situations, including spreading out from all corners of the Earth (second row, right), greeting sea creatures, even though 'auxiliary mascot' Badalang is himself a clam shell (first row, third from left) and being banned (second row, second from left). Incidentally, the main mascot Yeosulang is a jagged coastline. Also, the
mascot's page has the audacity to say that the various colors represent the Yeosu regions "diverse cultures".
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