Some Pictures

Insadong, some food, a whole lot of monkfish, etc:

We went to Sun Young's favorite place today. A little hole in the wall with a 2 item menu. Either mixed seafood, or monkfish served up in a thick sauce of red chilis with bean sprouts and greens. We got the monkfish. It was pretty much every part of the fish: bones, skin, connective tissue and all. It also came peppered with small balls that were some kind of seafood. When you give them a strong crunch they squirt out a very earthy tasting liquid. Served with spicy mustard paste, soy and the usual hot day banchans of chilled kimchi soup (best yet) and radish kimchi. If you finish everything and you're still hungry they will make fried rice for you using the inevitable leftover sauce. Awesome meal.

Some blood sausage stuffed with rice noodles. Holds together just like all pork sausage.

Dokbuki at the street market eaten with toothpicks. Under $2 American. Way better than anywhere else so far. The cylindrical things are rice cakes. The thin flat pieces are fish cakes generally made out of pollack. The weird textured bits are tempura veggies and squid.

Insadong shopping mall.

Lots of art, traditional and new style. Particularly awesome Lacquerware jewelry boxes and various ceramics.

A crane fishing in a little creek in the middle of downtown. Only wildlife I've seen so far.

Oddly enough there were fish all over the place.

The same river only several hundred meters upstream. Right smack dab in the middle of town.

Me doing my Korean girl shot in front of Korea's most famous general. Why's he so famous? He beat the Japanese.

This man invented Hangul.

Here we are surrounded by about 70,000 people at one of three locations where they showed the Korea Uruguay soccer match. About 150,000 people total were out at these places. We got to see some of Korea's most famous actors, singers and other personalities. The G20 building is to the right (not in this picture).

I will be posting some videos shortly, and more words.