Good Engrish

[Stef]

Rules posted in a climbing gym in Seoul:

Before climbing, every user should read Safety Rules of Indoor Ice Climbing Gym,

The Ice Palace, and make out Admission Form and Exemption Consent Document.

Every beginners should climb with experienced one. Or previous climbing lesson is essential.

Solo climbing is not permitted by any means.

Every user should choose reasonable grade of climbing route as to their ability.

Before climbing, every user should do enough stretching in order to prevent injury.

Every climber should use certificated gears. Correct wearing and management is essential for your safety. In case of breakage and loss, please remember it's user's responsibility.

Every user should be identified by O2 World climbing manager in case of their first scaling.

Top climber and belayer should confirm mutually their own correct equipments wearing, rope knots and running belays. In every scaling, correct climbing signals should be used.

Every climber should always connect their rope knots directly to harness.
Rope connection by carabiner is prohibited.

Belayer should not sit down or not lie down when they are doing belay activity.

Belayer should control slow descending of climber. Sudden descending is strictly prohibited.

In case of finding broken or loose holds, damaged climbing board and gears, please tell managers soon.

Every one should always wear helmet in the ice climbing gym.

Wearing and taking off crampons should be done only in the ice climbing gym.

Extra gears should be kept ready at appointed place for other trainees' safety.

Only top roping style climbing is permitted except unavoidable case.

Climbing should be done in turn by manager's order. Simultaneous climbing can cause destruction of ice wall and artificial holds.

For the purpose of other user's safety, manager can order leaving or halt of climbing when user's skill is not correct, inexperienced or in case of acting contrary to safety rules.

[Fred]

this was an indoor ice wall or a poor translation job?

[Richard Eh!]

I guess it depends on the time of year????

[The Teth]

Appears to be an indoor ice climbing wall. Cool idea. The translation is very bad, but the meaning is discernible. I have read enough gym wavers that it is not hard to know what they are trying to say.

[Stef]

Yup, it's an indoor ice gym. There are about 20 rock gyms at at least two indoor ice gyms that I know of in Seoul. Koreans are crazy about climbing. Not suprising, the whole city is ringed by amazing peaks of squamish-like granite.

Stef.

[Fred]

huh?! I didn't know that. Is the outdoor climbing any good?

How did you like those rental tools? They look pretty sweet.