Hi from Korea *UPDATED*

The country has become so digitized that the sun is made of square pixels now. 

A lot has changed since I was there, wonderfull Camp Casey/Hovey and the cities of TDC (Tong Du Chon) and Toko-ri. Went to Seoul a few times and again a lot of modernization and change since 1976.

There is a Korean resteraunt in Lincoln ran by real Koreans, still love Korean food, Hot Kimchi.....aaahhhhh.

Pretty cool. I've always wanted to visit an Asian country. If only for the food.

Heh. "Instadong."

Looks like all the pics I have from when I went to see my dad while he was there. except we were an kunsan, not osan.

So as promised here's a little more.  On Friday I had to get up at 3:30 to catch a bus to the airport for a 7am flight from Grand Rapids to Chicago.  We were in the air for a whole 30 min.  It was the shortest flight I have ever been on.  We pretty much went up and went down because the seat belt sign never came off.  After waiting in Ohare for a couple of hours we boarded our plane.  I have never been on an international flight so maybe all flights are like this but I was really impressed.  Each seat had a tv (I knew this going in) a blanket and pillow along with a toothbrush and slippers.  They fed us a ton and gave us plenty of beverages. Even though they had tons of movies to watch it was still a really long flight.  It took us a little over 13 hours.  It was daylight outside the entire time so it seemed like the longest day ever.  When we landed we had a bus ride to Osan where we stopped to get something to eat.



When we first got to Seoul we went to the Korean Blue House.



We decided to take a group picture here (dont have it yet or I would share) and we had people taking pictures of us instead of the building behind.  We then continued to the palace and the shopping area.  Here's another building in the palace grounds I found interesting.



After those two places we went to the Cheonggye Stream.



Then we continued to our final tourist area of the day, the Seoul Tower.  It was a hazy day so it wasn't the best for viewing.  While there we saw some martial arts demonstration that was being put on in front of the tower.









Once we were done we dropped off our tour guide and headed to the LG Twin Towers just to get a peak at them.  We went through the lobby and caught a glimpse of this baby.



Then we went up to one of the upper floors to get a few pictures of Seoul.





Overall people have been very friendly.  Like I said before we have had people take pictures of us just walking by.  One of the guys in the group is about 6'9" and he has had a handful of people ask him for a picture.  We were walking through the palace waiting to get through a doorway and a group of Chinese (I think) saw us and started pointing and speaking really loudly in their own language. The only time we had any problem was when we went to a chain small restaurant to pick up a few small dishes along with tons of beer and soju.  There was about 20 of us that went so we took up half of the restaurant and we got a little loud towards the end of the night so some of the local Koreans complained and the waiters told us to be quiet. Heres the menu of the place we went.



Ill update this sometime in the next few weeks when I get more pictures. Its been a bunch of classroom learning this week so we haven't gotten to go out that much.  Sorry if the pictures are a bit big.

^win.

I love that sweet view of the city. Looks like a blast!

AGENT RED-DAWN YOU HAVE YOUR MISSION, YOU ARE TO INFILTRATE THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT.