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#1
When I was young, my mother once took me and my younger sibling to a puppet show event in Seoul. I remember we had to transfer buses twice and then take the subway with several more transfers to get to the venue. The night before, my mother printed a simple map of the area around the venue on a sheet of A4 paper, wrote down the bus numbers we needed to take and the names of the stations where we had to get on and off, and told us that if we ever got separated from her and lost our way, we should stay exactly where we were and wait without moving.
#2
When I was young, there was always a map tucked away somewhere in the storage compartment of my parents' car. When finding our way to a place we had never been before, I remember looking for the name of the road we were driving on and the names of the roads beside us to locate our position, then planning how much farther to go and which road to turn onto. Taxi drivers could find their way to any destination we named without ever looking at a map, and I thought that was an incredibly impressive skill.