What an eventful day, I learned that the Koreans invented Paper, the Water wheel and the cotton gin. Man am I writing a nasty letter to Haughton Mifflin letting them know that they have seriously gotten it all wrong.
got up early (again), and took the bus with Andrew and Brenda to visit Jinju castle...we were scheduled to go up to Seoul to visit the DMZ and the olympic park. Unfortunately due to the heightened tension with the north they had cancelled all the tours to the JSA, and Panmunjon. that was a high point for korea, but alas it just wasn't meant to be.
Jinju was pretty cool, a nice fort with lots of history, right or wrong, a lot of history...i was pleasently suprised by the prose in some of the display explanations, definitely not written by a Korean.
that night was quite the get together, andrew grilling out, and all the Hamyang english teachers gathering together for a nice get together, good food, good beer and of course Andrew's birthday, which didn't end for anothe 12 hours, and that was even after midnight.
Henry's arrival...so apparently andrews friend from Taiwan, Henry got married (not really), and headed to Hamyang to hang out with the Dullock Brothers. We all went out for Korean bbq and karaoke, the clean kind.
we had a blast at the resturaunt, with the polish prince, mr. korea himself in his shiny suit, the newlywed, and of course brenda and andrew...then of course the great singing of the biggest abba fan ever!
An afternoon tour of Hamyang with Brenda was nice, we took a walk around the entire city, seeing the big park, big ass tree, huge bell, and the carpeted sidewalks (still don't get those), Although i am confused regarding on of the signs i saw in the park stating that the US was defeated by the Koreans in a conflict in 1871...i'll have to do more research regarding that. After the walk we went for Gimbob, a type of maki roll. these were ok, although i'm not so sure about the canned tuna just dumped on rice, this seems to be the food of choice of most of the school children in the area, as its inexpensive and quick to eat. We also tried the Ramon, this was quite good, spicy, with that chef boyardee kind of sweetness to the sauce. it made me sweat a little from the heat.
Last night in Korea...a peaceful night of bar hopping with the fam...went to the first place and had some of the spiciest food i've ever had in my life. were pretty sure the proprieter of the bar did it on purpose, so based on the principle that koreans don't spea, english (which is true 99% of the time), i thanked him and recomfirmed that it was 32 for beer and shit food...
after that it was off to the Mafia bar, yep, the bar owned by the Yakuza...that was fun, and after that it was off to one of Andrew's favorite bars where we tried the same dish that we ordered at the first, this time it was much better and actually edible. after the third bar we were beat and decided and called it a night.
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