...Seoul Continued

Seoul is colossal and there’s really no word that I can come up with that can convey just how huge of a metropolis it is. Seoul is ranked as the 8^th most populous city in the world (New York being the largest city in the U.S., comes in at 14).  Seoul definitely has some bragging rights too.

Here’s a few reasons from Wikipedia:

1.       Seoul is one of the world's top ten financial and commercial centers, home to large conglomerates such as Samsung, LG and Hyundai-Kia.

2.        In 2008, Seoul was named the world's sixth most economically powerful city by Forbes.com.

3.       In 2007, Mercer Human Resource Consulting ranked Seoul 87th in the world among major cities for quality of life.

4.       Seoul has a technologically advanced infrastructure. Its Digital Media City has been a test-bed for various IT and multimedia applications (There’s gadgets and widgets, which are both very technical terms btw, of all sorts, to test out everywhere you look)

5.       Seoul was the first city to feature DMB, a digital mobile TV technology and WiBro, a wireless high-speed mobile internet service. It has a fast, high-penetration 100Mbps fibre-optic broadband network, which is being upgraded to 1Gbps by 2012 (Um…and put the pickles on the side?)

6.       Seoul Station houses the 350 km/h KTX bullet train.

7.       Seoul Subway is the third largest in the world, with over 200 million passengers every year.

8.       Seoul was chosen to be the World Design Capital for 2010 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.

Anywho,  so back to my original point which was…..Seoul is huge and there’s no possible way to see it all in one weekend. This was not our goal of course. Looking back through our pictures, you would think feeding our inner fat person may have been the goal. Well then, mission accomplished.

 One of Rebecca's friends from SC knew about a breakfast joint that served good ol' fashioned American breakfast (all over the walls and tables, there were explanations of what an American style breakfast consists of, pretty funny)...."Butterfingers".

This is Ashton (The friend). Poor guy was stuck with us girls.

Did someone say cake? cookies? cake cookies?

 It's taken me a bit to get used to seeing the Won on labels and I still forget sometimes and will throw up my hands and yell "35,000 for a shirt! Who pays for this stuff!?!" and then I sheepishly back away and remember, oh yeah those tricky Koreans and their zeroes. I had to take a picture of this little bottle of maple syrup. The price is obviously in Korean Won, but drop off a few of those zeros and it's about a $70 bottle of maple syrup. Who pays for this stuff!?!?!

We plan to reconvene in Seoul for Chuseok (one of the biggest holidays celebrated), which is next week.