Hi from Korea *UPDATED*
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Topic: Hi from Korea *UPDATED*
Posted By: pntbl freak
Subject: Hi from Korea *UPDATED*
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 9:33am
Just a quick check in before I head to bed. Ill update this later tomorrow when I have more time. I landed in Seoul with 15 other newly hired employees and we were bussed down to Osan South Korea. For the week we are at the LG Learning Center before heading to Cheongju to stay at a hotel for 2 months while working at the plant. They are feeding us three full meals a day. (My stomach hasnt had a problem with the diet change so I havent had the trots Whale) Heres a view from my room. After I passed out Saturday night and woke up at 4am because of jet lag, we went to Seoul for the day. They set up a guided tour for us so we saw a handful of stuff. Here is the Gyeongbok Palace.  After that we went to a Korea restaurant and shopping area called Insadong.  Overall its been a lot of fun so far and look forward to the next 2 months. Hopefully I can get back here tomorrow to post more pictures but for now Im going to get ready for bed because its 10:33 pm here. -------------  |
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 9:48am
| The country has become so digitized that the sun is made of square pixels now. |
Posted By: JohnnyCanuck
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 10:06am
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that palace is awesome
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 10:10am
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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. ------------- 
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Posted By: tallen702
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 10:15am
| Remember, don't stray across the DMZ to "Best" Korea unless you want to have to rely on Bill Clinton to get you out. |
Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 10:39am
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 1:04pm
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Hows the people there? Friendly? Staring at you like EVIL AMERICAN CAPARTALIST?!?!"
Steal me a street sign. ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 1:58pm
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Pretty cool. I've always wanted to visit an Asian country. If only for the food. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: High Voltage
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 3:31pm
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I'd go for the sideways.
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 3:52pm
| Heh. "Instadong." |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 4:36pm
| I know the name Insadong and I cant figure out why. Probably because I live in Vancouver. |
Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 4:50pm
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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. ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 4:55pm
| Instadong. Just add water, microwave for 5 minutes. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 7:11pm
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. ------------- |
Posted By: GroupB
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 7:51pm
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 10:16pm
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^win.
What exactly are you doing in Korea? I know its some kind of job training, but what specifically?
I really dont understand how shipping a bunch of people to Korea for training is beneficial, considering that they probably have to adjust a lot since most of the staff does not speak English.
Regardless, I am kinda jealous. It sounds like one of those expierences you will never forget. It makes me hate myself for going to school for engineering and my career path is....teaching. Not that I dont mind, but I get to miss out on business trips and/or blowing crap up with the gubment. -------------
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Posted By: carl_the_sniper
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 10:53pm
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I didn't know they made 72 inch TVs larger than 72 inches.
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 16 March 2011 at 11:07pm
| I love that sweet view of the city. Looks like a blast! |
Posted By: scotchyscotch
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 12:48am
72.4999999999999..." Silly koreans. now the Americans will just make a 73"!You'vedoomedusall! |
carl_the_sniper wrote:Posted By: DaveEllis
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 1:48am
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AGENT RED-DAWN YOU HAVE YOUR MISSION, YOU ARE TO INFILTRATE THE SOUTH KOREAN GOVERNMENT. FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION. CHAIRMAN MEOW IS COUNTING ON YOU. GOD BLESS
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Posted By: Rofl_Mao
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 7:15am
| ^ I see what you did thar. |
Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 7:53am
For the first week we have classroom training where we go over a bunch of company stuff and get information about what we will be producing when we get back to the states. After that we will head to our sister plant where they are making the products now. We will learn what they do and copy it back home since the plant back home is being built as I type this. So far everyone that has presented to us speaks English except for the gentlemen today and he had a translator. When we get to the plant all of our mentors that will be teaching us speak English. I also have noticed that most people here speak english. Some are just way more comfortable speaking it then others. I went to a grocery store a little bit ago and picked up a can of Mountain Dew and some type of candy that tasted like Koala Yummies. Mountain Dew was a bit off but I still liked it and they Koala Yummies look a likes were amazing! I was looking at more photos and came across these. They are at the Seoul Tower and called Locks of Love. People lock them and throw the key over the ledge vowing to never separate. The first picture is just an iron tree full of them. However I really like the 2nd picture that I took and felt like sharing    ------------- |
Posted By: jmac3
Date Posted: 17 March 2011 at 5:05pm
That makes way more sense now. I too was wondering how sending people to Korea would be useful at all. ------------- Que pasa? 
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