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Candy being made with hardened honey and cornstarch. They made some 2000 strands out of a single piece of honey. It was then stuffed with sugared almonds and then stuffed into my mouth. They had quite the show going on. In the middle of tons of screaming fans all wearing red and singing various songs. I, oddly enough, was not beaten up. One song that they adopted is actually the old Eric Cantona song people sang when he was playing for Manchester United.Sun Young and I walking through Insadong. Insadong is the area that the Japanese took to using as the housing neighborhood for the aristocracy. It is full of art in the form of masks, ceramics and laqcuerware for the most part. Tons of back alleys and no street signs make this neighborhood a little difficult to navigate. Definitely my favorite part of town so far.

As a parting note a 5 year old girl rode up to me on her scooter to let me know that I looked Chinese to her. And of course, everyone was very worried that the food was too spicy for me.