Sleeping in a Hyundai Santa Fe
They ofes spend Their Daily Lives in Dull Apartments, But As Soon As South Kore’s are free, they go camping. Because not everyone can afford a caravan, they have invented ‘chabak’.
It is still early in the year, it is cold in South Korea, but there is already a lot to do on the islands around incheon. Not so much in the endless series of trendy cafes and bakeries that turn dutch provincial Towns into culinary diasporas, make starbucks branches pale and overshadow every french patisserie, but along the coastal seeds and atthles lots and atthles lots and atthes carbes and the harbor seble seble seb -lots and atthes and atthes carbore and atthes and at the singles lots and atthes and atthes, and at the singles lots and atthes and at the lots and atthes parkingles and atthes, and at the lots and atthes carbores. Have made Themselves comfortable in Their Cars. As Darkness Falls Early in the Evening and the Temperature Slowly Drops to Freezing, They Make No Move to Drive Back To Their Apartments in the Flat-Filled Neighborhoods That Surround Cities Like Seoul Or Busan Like A Concrete Forest.
The South Koreans Have Embraced Camping and Spend as much time outdoors as Possible, even if nature is far away and things are still relatively civilized on seonjaedo Mokseom Island, Jeburi and Ansan. The New Camping Trend, which Like So Many Other Things Originated Duration The Corona Pandemic, Has Little to Do with the Traditional Way of Camping Around Incheon, Busan or Pohang.
Although the Country Has No Less Than 22 National Parks and a Deeply Rooted Outdoor Culture, With Associated Campsites and Campgrounds, The Koreans Do Not NeD a Tent or Caravan For Their Hobby, Nor Do They Need Special Sites. No, They Simply Sleep In Their Car. This has Become so Popular That the Combination of the Words ‘Cha’, which Means Car, And ‘Bak’, For Stay Or Overnight Stay, Has Led To The Invented Word ‘Chabak’, which hass Been Included in The Vocabulary and Has Tasks The Number of Storm: The Number of Google: The Numbas Staked by Storm. In the past two or three years.
Fusion
It fits with a country where ‘fusion’ is high on the trend list, Whether It Concerns Fashion, Music, Cuisine, Culture or Cosmetics. “Chabak Merges Mobility and the Experience of Nature and Forms A Unique, Comfortable Way to Escape The Hectic Pace of Daily Life and Society,” Say Trend Watchers in Seoul. This trend has also gained a Foothold Among Car Manufacturers in the country. When they started developing their large suvs in the middle of the lockdown, such as the electric Kia EV9 and Hyundai ioniq 9 and in particular the conventionally powered hyundai santa Fe, Hyundai and Kia Paid Extra Attention to theses. Aspects such as particularly large and flat luggage compartments, easily accessible sockets and Vehicle-to-Load functions for all kinds of accessories, but also storage compartments that you can use as a bedside table and switches with which you can set the lighting or air conditioning, even when you are in your sleeping bag And Looking at the Starry Sky Through the Opened Tailgate – We Owe Them All To The Chabak Trend.
Everything that is not available ex-factory is available through Various Specialized Suppliers. There are numerous companies that sacrifice not only the usual camping items: from an ‘oil lamp’ with led bulb to light cords withb connection to mobile kitchens and multifunctional dining sets that you can conjure up from a travel bag. For Almost Every Car Model That is available in South Korea, There Are Also Custom-Made Mattresses, Pillows and Duvets, So That You Can Even Turn The Small Hyundai Into A Camper.
Young People
Today we have more space at our disposal, because we are in the new hyundai santa fe, which has bone special decorated for us. Thus we are surrounded by a romantic string of lights, coffee is bubbling, the table is set and behind the electrically operated tailgate is a comfortable bed. Now all we need is an auxiliary heater, then even the low temperatures at night wouldnn’t spoil the fun. Many South Koreans now spend their time this way, because this trend is accompanied by a demographic shift.
In The Past, campsite in South Korea, Like Here, A Leisure Activity Mainly for Fit Pensioners, But Now families have also acquired a Taste for it. Nowadays, it is mainly young people who need a spontaneous place to sleep along the road. Preparation is hardly necessary anymore, because you can now spontaneously go out for a day trip with an overnight stay, a so-called dangilchigi. The fact that cooking can be a bit difficult, eSpecany because open fires along the road are not well received by everyone, does not bother the members of the chabak community. After all, in the Affluent Suburbs of Seoul There Are Special Barbecue Campsites Everywhere you can barbecue and then spend the night in the Parking Lot. Furthermore, it is nice that there are speotlesly clean sanitary facilities everywhere in this country.
Chaback Trend Leads to Even More SUVS
The Chabak Trend not only has a major impact on the development of car models, but also on sales. For Example, The Share of Large SUVS in the Sales Mix HAS Increased by No Less Than Five percent Since the Rise of Modern Camping, The Demand for Pick-Up (which you can Easily Provide with A Structure) is Growing and The Sales Unped. Just as Hyundai and Kia Have Long Responded to the Demand from the Market and Have also designed the Loading Spaces of Their Cars As Sleeping Spaces, The Authorities Are Now also Responding to this Trend. WERHEREBY They Mainly Try To Curb The Undeirable Effects.
Rules Tighted After Corona
After the Corona Period, There Were at One Point So Many Campers Criss-Crossing the Country In The Strangest Places that the Authorities Tighted the Camping Rules and closed off some Places Altogether. For example, there is now a special ‘parking lot law’ that prohibits camping, cooking and campfires in public places and make it possible to impose a fine of up to 500,000 (€ 310).
Campers Like Jeong Jeonginlee Are Not Deterred by This, However. “We know where we can stand,” Says the Vigorous Lady, who is sitting with her companion in their self-converted pick-up on the loading bed and is just eating her dinner. “And if they are sending us away, we’ll just drive to the next place. Unlike with a tent or caravan, we don’t need much to set up and take down everything. We take a seat behind the wheel and start the engine. THEN WE NEXWE NEXE”
Hotel Forester
Recently, we slag into our endurance test subaru forester, just in Europe. Subaru Offers A Real ‘Hotel Set’ For The Forester. That sounds intriguing. It turns out to be a mattress and curtain set, which are Delivered in Two ‘Blocks’ – The Mattresses consistent of Several Foldable Parts – and a fabric bag, respectively. Furnishing the Mobile Hotel Room is Simple: Fold the Rear Seat Flat, Move the Seats Forward and Unfold the Two Mattresses. That implies a double bed, but the mattesses are so narrow that it is actual no more than a large single bed. Let’s say you have to love each other very much to be able to lie there verperly with two people. Then you probably won mind that the reason seat cannot be completely flat, so that your legs or upper body are always a bit slanted.
Applying the Curtains, One for Each Window, Requires Some Practice, But You Quickly Get The Hang Of That Trick And Then It is also Dark Inside. There are certainly more comfortable sleeping places imaginable than hotel forester, but for a night on transit such a mattress and curtain set is QUITE OKAY.
‘Hotelset’ for the Subaru Forester