Seoulscapade

I’ve mentioned elsewhere my admiration for Korean practicality, and I might have even noted the way moving in and out of apartments is done with convenience in mind. Here they often use a large retractable conveyor system, or removal lift, on the back of a truck.

These systems have telescopic sliding sections along which a base platform travels. Some of them are huge, as seen in the images here, taken from my balcony window.

With one of these you bypass the pains of using a building’s elevator. I was intrigued when I first saw one, struck by the incontrovertible workaday logic it exemplified.

My second sensation, since I come from over-regulated country, was the conflict between seeing a convenient practice and being unsettled that it was also illegal. I am not certain but I’d predict that this kind of thing is probably illegal in countries like Australia, where you spend most of your life dodging and sidestepping rules.

I doubt anyone’s been killed by falling furniture in Korea. Pedestrians exercise practicality here as well. If you don’t want to risk falling furniture, don’t walk under the conveyor. It’s pretty simple.

I’m all for this mode of removal: pull up, jack it up, load it on, run it down, drive it off.