If it can be impaled on a stick…
…it can be eaten. As I was gazing at this refrigerator case I was gripped with a compulsion to move the two stick-less wieners into another area so that the be-sticked foods could all be together.
After the convenience store, I walked to this water park in the middle of downtown Seoul. This little plaza used to be a fetid cesspool of decay. Then the former mayor of Seoul made it into a promenade with running water and green things that aren’t algae. The former mayor is now the president of South Korea and everyone hates him for no reason that I can fathom.
There’s a street market called Insadong with a huge building full of musical instruments. Korean people must love to shred because there were literally hundreds of thousands of guitars. This is one shop out of maybe 500 similar shops.
Lots of downtown Seoul looks helter-skelter with new and old buildings all jumbled together.
Here’s a weird mall that’s like the Guggenheim in that you walk up a circular ramp to get to all of the stores which all seem to sell some form of worthless knick-knack. There are a lot of tourists here.
Some parts of downtown Seoul are very modern. Downtown is more like Vancouver than New York.
I took a cable car up to the top of Namsan mountain. There’s an observatory there where lovers go to profess their undying love. The intertwined-locks symbolize that nothing can ever tear the couple apart.
Seoul is a city of 11 million people - almost 50% bigger than New York City. It’s unimaginably huge. The observatory where I took this picture is circular and for 360 degrees it looks just like this.
I ate shortribs for dinner and I was doubled over in pain from eating too much.
