A Bit Of Your Proper Korean Culture

Well it's back to school, and time to up-dated the blog and load-up the images from the weekend. This weekend we went to the to National Museum of Korea and hit a few bars in Seoul.

Friday was a usual quiet one, just staying locally. We went and had this BBQ soup thing, whose name escapes me, with Kristin. Then we met up with Ben, Jorge and two new friends of Jorge's Dot and Ian.

Saturday was the big day. We got ourselves up, I knocked-up the now traditional cooked brekkie, and then we went down to the station to meet the guys. Icheon is the area of Seoul where the National Museum is based, a relatively new building, and an outstanding piece of architecture in itself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_Korea

So we spent a good long afternoon wandering languidly around the exhibition spaces. Some to be fair were standard museum issue exhibits. Others were definitely more impressive and well displayed. I was particularly impressed with the huge Buddhist painting at 2 storeys high, the room of Buddhas was very contemplative, and the room dedicated to Hangul informative. On the whole a good museum, the Korean people should be proud to have this stand as a national symbol.

After that we headed into Itaewon for food and refreshments. We found an Indian resturant that we'd heard about, that did an all-you-can-eat buffet. So we chowed down there. It was Jorge's first Indian experience, which he seemed to enjoy. Another convert! The bill was on the expensive side, but hey what the hell! We wanted an Indian, we'd been gagging for one since we got here. So no big deal!

Then it was beers and music. We hit a few bars, chatted to people, played pool and listened to live bands play. All good, all good! Another late one, as we hung around until we could get the first metro home. So Sunday was a quite one. We got up late afternoon, rang Jorge and headed into Suwon to do some shopping. Then back home to chill and ready ourselves for school the next day.