Seoul Day 2

These pictures are from Seoul. Scroll down for a bit of text. The images get inserted at the beginning, so the last line can be made sense of that way....





Just a quick update. Today I visited Gyeongbokgung, Changyeonggung, and Jongmyo. These will mean something to Bob once he asks HJ. For the rest of you, the first two are big palace complexes from the Choseon period and the last is the royal shrine. There's a third major palace that I will not be able to see because it is closed in December. (That would be Changdeokgung.) As an aside, the thing I'm finding hardest in parsing Korean is eo (which is "aw") and oe (which is "way").

I do wish I had put a little time into this couple of days before they started. For example, there's a performance piece playing called "the Ballerina who loved a B-Boy" which I would have loved to see but needs to be booked at least three days in advance. (Maybe a week. It depends on who you ask. By the way, today I saw the office of the "International B-Boy Association." I promise to explain "B-Boy" later to the best of my ability.) The other thing is that it's not clear that staying here at KIAS was really the best choice. For example if I'd stayed at the local holiday in where the other conference participants were, I could book an airport shuttle and DMZ tour through them. As it is I'll have to take a taxi and it's not clear whether I'll be able to manage my own DMZ tour.

Also, I took about 200 pictures today. What the heck, let's toss a few up.