I think the temple has been rebuilt since the Korean War, but they still do the changing of guards. We were on our way to the hidden art museum, when we were met by the music and march of the guards:
So colorful:
The temple is located in the middle of City Hall. Across the street is the G20 Summit buidling:
Doing some marching and flag waving:
We were sweating just standing there and watching, I can't imagine how they must have felt!
Head Honcho:
Hot.
We got to pose with him!
Our favorite:
After the show, we headed down the cute brick walkway to the Art Museum.
Much better in the shade!
Don't look too long, it'll hurt your eyes! The little sign next to it said the artist was inspired by kimchi jars covered in snow? I guess you have to be Korean to understand that one.
Being the cheapees that we are, we only looked at the free exhibit in the art museum, photography. It was cute. It also was small. After that museum we headed over to the Seoul History Museum. We passed by a part of the American Embassy, the Salvation Army Headquarters, and other cool buildings.
I liked it.
Inside the museum, which had 4 or so floors, but all the exhibits were on the 3rd floor only. Also, all the exhibits were in Korean with no English translations.
Definitely the coolest part of the museum, the interactive 3D map of Seoul. We saw one of these at Dream Forest, but this was 3-4 times bigger and more awesome! There were screens that you could use to look up different places, like train stations, schools, main attractions, and then a spot light would find it for you. Even though that was also only in Korea, we managed to find the station close to us and the campus. About halfway down on the left side, there's a big building, that's our station. And if you can spot the soccer field, that's the campus.
On our way to dinner, we passed by this guy. I'm not sure who he is, but if there's a statue of him, he must be important. Behind him is another statue of an ancient king sitting on his thrown with the mountains behind him. The city and road kinda just stops after him, it's rather cool.
For dinner, we went Mexican. It was kinda like Chipotle; Kraig got a burrito and I got a vegetarian tostado.
Happy to have the option of vegetarian!
The jazz concert took place on the lower floor of one of the major cell phone company's building. We got there a little early, so we played with all the cool gadgets. This one guesses your age, but we think it's based on Asian faces. It was a little off for him.
The place is so technology-advanced, it was like we walked into the future! Like, there was a touch screen computer monitor that you could just set the camera on and it would automatically upload the pictures without having to plug in or turn on the camera. Or this other do-bob you could write a short message on that projects it onto the wall and is saved so later someone could come back and check for the message. It's supposed to be for lovers to leave short love notes. Kraig wrote a short one saying "kraig <3 laura" on monday, and on tuesday he just typed his name in and it popped up! I didn't get a picture, but on Monday Chomi from his internship took one and put it on fb.
While we waited for the jazz concert, I played the Korean version of Bejewelled.
Our tickets:
Although I took a short nap in the beginning, the concert was pretty good.
The Cheonggyecheon is a 5km man made river 15 ft below the street in downtown Seoul. At night it is very pretty and romantic.
We didn't walk along it for long (I was so sleepy!) but we plan to walk the length of it one of these nights.
Almost caught up! You can look forward to seeing pictures from one of Kraig's days at work and a post about another intern field trip. Right now I need to quiet my growling stomach!
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I want to have a computer guess my age. Did u do it?
ReplyDeleteyeah, it guessed 27. not too far off.
ReplyDeleteMwahahaha. That's closer to me! :)
ReplyDeletedidn't we decide i look older than you? or that most people think i'm older than you?
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