Some eateries

Seoul is, of course, full of places to eat. There are many nook-like diners along the side streets. As one might guess would be the case in any cosmopolitan city, US franchises have invaded. There were lots of examples; because our friend Dan is a regular in the store in C’ville, one of the invaders we were tickled to see was Smoothy King (note the no parking sign in front of the car that parked in front of the shop just as I took the photo).

However, we spent our meal times at various other places. Here’s a little run-down, in chronological order, on some of the places where we ate.

Pat and the protest

Here we are in Seoul and, true to form, Pat found a protest.

Talks

For those who are interested in what I’ve been saying (about special education) while we’re here, I’ve posted an entry on Teach Effectively!.

Deagu University

We took the KPX from Busan to Dong Deagu on 19 June to meet with Professors Kun-Yong Rhee and Wi-Yung Kang at Daegu University. They were wonderfully gracious hosts, getting us on the calendar of a top administrator at DU, securing a guided tour of a museum, feeding us a nice lunch, giving us a tour of DU’s Braille Library (an excellent facility for serving people with visual impariments or blindness), and then guiding us on a visit to Hahoe folk village. I hope to post a note about the visit to the folk village soon, but for this entry I focus on our time at DU.

Jagalchi Market

The Jagalchi Market in Pusan is an enormous open-air fish market that is fascinating. Pat and I walked through the neighborhood surrounding it and part of the market itself on Friday the 15th. I failed to pull the camera out of the bag, though, so I don’t have any personal photos. I’ve included here references to a couple that are used in travel promotions.

Time differences

Because the settings for this blog have the time zone as -5 UTC, the posts appear with a time-stamp that’s different from the time when I wrote them. Given that we’re on the other side of the international dateline than the time zone from whence I usually post, you’re seemingly reading something that’s come from the future.