Today, Yeonhee's parents came to Seoul to take us out on the town. They brought us a ton of gifts, including some really good soju (Korean liquor). What sweet people! Then they took us on the Seoul City Bus Tour. It was a really great way to see the city. We stopped at the National Museum of Korea, where we "experienced the 5000 year history of Korea and the everlasting cultural legacy of Asia", as the brochure says. It really was an impressive place. Almost as impressive was that the museum restaurant served up a first-rate Korean lunch. Contrast that with the lunch you get at an American museum. Christine even took a picture of her plate of food.
From there, we visited Cheongwadae, the official residence of the president of South Korea. The Chois bought us even more gifts there! We entered another dimension when we were electronically super-imposed onto a photograph of the president and first lady. Not Obama, but Lee.
After that, we visited the National Folk Museum of Korea, where we learned about daily life in Korea through the ages. I read recently in an article that the worst tourists were from China. I never understood it until today. We were minding our own business, looking at a display, when a crowd of about 50 Chinese hillbillies knocked us all out of their way to see the display. They had a tour guide that shouted a few words at them before they thundered off to the next display, hurling bodies to and fro, destroying everything in their path. The good news is that they went so fast, that within five minutes, they were back on their bus and on to the next museum.
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