Gojitmal (LIES!)

Update:

- I have eaten way too many crazy things I've never thought I'd eat before in my life. Tonight as I was munching on caterpillar cacoons (they have grown on me) and slurping blood soup I remembered that I hadn't said anything about food probably since my first couple posts. I love Korean food. I'm going to miss it so much when I leave. I am addicted to Kim chi. When Kris and I eat out for Korean food, she polishes off the bean paste and I eat all the Kim chi. Between the two of us we make Koreans stare in awe while the waiters bring out more and more Kim chi and bean paste. mmmm tasty! Oh wait. I just remembered I think I said something about eating raw everything here. I had more raw crab the other day. Out of the raw food, raw crab is probably my favourite. Only because of the sauce the put over the crab though.
- Last post I posted that I thought my heel was broken (I was exaggerating). I went to the doctor and turns out I have an inflammed achilles tendon. It sucks. I've been going in for electro shock therapy for a week and bit now plus taking med's. It's not heeled yet so he gave me extra med's to take with to Vietnam. I hope it gets better soon because I still can't wear running shoes without it hurting badly.
- I also leave for Vietnam in TWO DAYS! (lies. I wrote most of this blog two days ago. I now leave TONIGHT at midnight to catch my plane at 10am in Incheon tomorrow morning!) I am so excited...but I will admit I'm nervous. I feel like I forgot to do something with the trip planning so I keep giving myself a headache running everything over in my head to make sure we did everything. Doesn't help that we're doing our trip VERY spontaneous like. We only have actual plans for the first two days. Everything else is come as it happens. Best way in my opinion (I HATE things to be planned to a T), but also makes me worry a little more. Unpredictable is what I'm going for though so I guess that's what I'm getting!

um, I think that's all with the updates for now.

Last weekend I went to Seoul. Best Seoul trip in 2010 (ahaha. Only Seoul trip in 2010 thus far).
After arriving late Friday night we went to sleep at our hostel only to be woken up by screaming girls. So annoying. I wanted to strangle them. Then my phone rang at 3:20am. I was NOT impressed. The next morning we met Cindy, lost her on the subway when she got left behind (funniest thing of my life!), found her again, made it to Deoksugung Palace in Myeongdong near City Hall. It was small, but beautiful. This picture is us in front of the corronation hall. I bet this palace is beautiful in the summer!

The Palace with the city back drop. The old and the new.

Short little people. A passing photographer took this for us. I think he also took one of us with his camera too. Tried to sneak it in, but I totally caught him in the act! I should get a percent of the money he'll make off the photo (I am a professional model now afterall...)

We randomly ended up in front of the Canadian Embassy. Suddenly we're like, whoa! Canadian flag! Cindy was shocked we didn't know where it was. But seriously. Seoul is HUGE. How in the world are we supposed to know where the embassy is? Not like I cared to even try to find where it is... but that's not the point.

We took these photos at a photo booth. It's really popular to do these in Korea and I've been dying to do them since I got here. We took it for Chul Min, Cindy's boyfriend. Oh yeah, guess I should've mentioned the point of our trip was to meet him and his friends and eat his amazing cooking.

At a military herritage site. Three best women in all of Korea I think/ I know.

At the military look out. There were still cannon ball markings on the trees nearby. It was SO COOL!

At the look out. We are on an island and hour north of Incheon so that would make it close to the DMZ.

Cindy and her boyfriend Chul Min who cooked us dinner (SO GOOD!) and introduced us to his totally awesome friends. We had a lot of fun that night. One of his friends played piano too so me and him rocked out on the piano for a while playing cheesy duets. That's the first time I've played piano since I left. I missed it so much! I wish I had a piano in this apartment... too bad Chul Min lives in Seoul or I'd go to his place just to play!

Today we had the last day of Middle School camp which meant....TALENT SHOW! The teacher all sang and danced to "hot and cold" by Katy Perry. Unfortunately Kris forgot her camera and mine only had seven minute of video and we had to save it for Kris and my personal performace later on. So, you don't get to see that one. However, Kris and I sang parts of two Korean songs as jokes for the kids and then danced and sang Karaoke to "Stop" by Spice Girls. I learned the lyrics the night before and knew it perfectly, but forgot some during the performance. Luckily the kids didn't know I made some up. Only the one time when I totally blanked did they know I forgot the words. I posted them all on facebook so if you have access, check them out. The kids loved it. My favourite boy, who is also the best at English, also danced to a song. It is also on facebook. Enjoy!

Now I have to go pack or else I won't make my bus to Incheon and that would suck. I haven't even thought about packing yet. oops.

Na Mi Nye

First off. Here is Korea's Kia Motors monthly magazine. I'll let you figure out why I have a copy and took a picture of it to post here. Don't be fooled by the title. It may be in English, but the rest is in Korean.

Next, check out this link. It is to the photo album that has been taken every day of camps so far. I wasn't there the first two weeks, but if you want to see me teaching, check those out. Especially check out the section titled Tara's Wall...something-or-other else. If your computer automatically translates the Korean then the grammar will be majorly wrong and you won't understand most of what's written because it translates it directly and doesn't change the sentences around. If your computer doesn't translate it then sucks to be you. Ok, not really. Just click make sure the check the album that had a winter picture on the front. I stole the school camera and took them because I love taking pictures and they put them up on the website. The last picture in the album is my name in Korean.

http://jnjse.go.kr/jshome/photo/view.html?code=album1&number=249&page=1&mode=5&keyfield=&key=&pc=&ctg=

I was going to give a crash course in Korean here before this next picture, but I haven't had time to write this while I'm at school and I can't do the Korean characters on my computer so... that'll be another time. For now, here's the story behind this picture.

This here is a letter Kris and I wrote a couple nights ago for the waiter at Seatle Expresso. I wrote the first line, Kris the second, me the third, Kris the fourth. It says something along the lines of, can I have your phone number, we should go out, do you know anywhere cheap to go etc. At the end though it says love Mi nye and Ji yo. Which is mine and Kristen's Korean names.

So last Friday English Camp had a field trip to Mokpo's English Town which Jangseong's English Town is based on. The only difference is Mokpo's is massive and ours is tiny. Gab is the only foreigner who works full time at ours and Mokpo has six full time foreign English teachers. Anyway, after an hour and fifteen minute drive we arrived and dropped off the kids. So what do seven teachers do while other teachers are teaching our kids? Hop into the coach bus and get driven around Mokpo of course. All the teachers at English Town. Left to right it's: Sukhi, Insook, Suk Kyung, Somi, Kris, Gab.

We first went to the movies. I really didn't want to go as it would be much more fun to see the city, but they all wanted to go so we did. At 11am. We watched "Nine" which was supposed to be like "Chicago" but was the dumbest movie I ever paid to see. Oh wait, I didn't pay. I got paid $40 to go to Mokpo so technically they paid for it for me. Still, I fell asleep in it. It was so stupid. Never go see it. That's two hours of my life I'll never get back. I could've done so much with it. Sigh. But then we went to the Mokpo harbour. It was a beautiful day for walking around and this made everything much better.

Some of the rock formations we saw walking around the walk way.

kya bya bo. Ok, I actually have no idea how to translate that one into English, but it's rock, paper scissors. It solves EVERYTHING in Korea. I've seen cops doing it for cigarettes. Anyway, point is, um, actually, I don't know what the point is. I have no idea why we were doing this. Maybe because it was a rock? I think Somi wanted us to do it for some reason. Oh, and scissors here looks like a gun.

All our camp students. We were told they had the best English they've heard all week. I say it's all because of me. Kristen and Gabrielle don't agree though. I don't know why...

Yesterday after church I went with Hyun Gin and her parents hiking. Or so I thought. I actually got a crash course in Korean cultural history and food. I'm pretty sure none of them have ever done anything for a foreigner before. They treat me so well. It's awesome. They paid for everything, bought me food to take home, and took me to dinner at the Opera House which was so nice and looked like a mini version of the real Opera House.

Outside the cultural museum, our first stop of many.

Hyun Jin at a temple we went to. She is bringing me more Kim chi soon. I finished the first stuff she gave me already. Mmmmm Kim chi. I had amazing Kim chi at work today. So spicy and so delicious.

The bottom (well, half way up the mountain, but that's where we started walking from) and the view over the side when we finally got to hiking! It was so beautiful!

After this we also went to a bamboo museum in Damyung, and to one of the areas that we went with Sam when we took photo's last weekend. I didn't want to tell them I had already been there because they were being so nice about everything I felt bad. I just have to make sure Hyun Jin doesn't see the pictures I took there last time.

I actually wrote this post a couple days ago, but didn't post it. Oops. Nothing big has happened in between though. I'm going to Seoul with Cindy this weekend. I finally get to meet her boyfriend. The one who I've talked to on the phone numerous times, edited his applications for studying abroad (you try editing a science students application... all those scientific terms... good thing I'm only looking for the grammar!), and made banana bread for (Cindy delivered). He's also tried to get a song sent from the internet to my phone (doesn't work with pay as you go. Boo) and tried to fix my computer while talking with me on the phone. Also didn't work. And now I FINALLY get to meet him! I can't wait. Kris is also coming and it's going to be awesome.

Next friday I leave for Vietnam!!! I can't wait!

I bought perscription sunglasses yesterday. They should be in just before I leave. I hope!

I also need to see a doctor. I think I broke my heel. If that's even possible.

Friends in Korea

This past weekend was absolutely amazing. Not just because I have random K/T/G (Kristen/Tara/Gab) stories, but because I spent each part of the weekend with friends from different parts of my life here. I am so thankful that I have been able to build a network of friends here. Without them I wouldn't want to be here. They are the ones who make life interesting. They are the ones who teach me Korean customs (apart from Gab and Cherrah, pretty much every other friend is Korean). They are the ones I have come to admire.

The adventue begins Friday when I had more issues getting to guitar lessons. Heejae likes to change the location on me and the buses like to work against me. Eventually though I made it to his place with a little help from him waving and yelling my name out of his 13th floor apartment for all Korea to hear. But alas, I to there only 15 mintues late. My hour lesson turned into an hour and half because he spent half the time showing me all his totally awesome effectors and recording system... Stanley, you would be jealous (but really you won't, because you never read this so you'll probably never know about it). Then I ended up staying an hour and half after that because his girlfriend made Hotteok which is so bad for you, but oh so tasty and because his Mom came home and was interested in me so I had to feed her curiousity. Plus, you can't go to a Korean's house and not get fed and have to stay for a few hours at LEAST. Which reminds me, Thursday I went to Hyung Gin's house and her Mom made me...crap, I can't remember the name of it. It is pork though. Starts with an S. hmmm. Maybe I will remember later. Anyway, they found out how much I love Kimchi so I got Kimchi cake and a whole head of Kimchi to take home. Now I tell people I made it. They don't believe me. I wonder why...?

Saturday I spent the morning downtown trying to find sunglasses with Kris which is apparently hard to do. You'd think things would be open at 10am.

At noon we left with Sam and Bryan for a photo shoot in Damyang. If you remember (which you probably don't so I will remind you), our church went to Damyang for a picnic at the end of October. We didn't go to the same area as our church did, but it was just as beautiful. Sam is a photographer and the most amazing one I've ever met. I am extremely envious of his camera too. (usually here I'd mention how Mom and Dad should be paying attention to that little fact, but every time I do that they never seem to remember I wrote something I really want in my blog and seem surprised when I say I'd love to have that. So really it's pointless to do that. Sigh.)
Anyway, here is a small sample of the 2000 (I swear he took 2000...) or so picture he took. He's giving us a DVD of them all later. There's about 45 on facebook too if you want to see more. Check them out.

What's a photo shoot without a jumping shot?

Sam put the timer on for this one so we could get a group shot.

Me and Sam, our amazing photographer.

On Sunday I wasn't expecting to have an out of the ordinary day, but I guess God decided that would be a good day to make things much more amazing for Kris and I and bring us into another network of friends. After we got lost and wandered around Pungnam-dong trying to find out travel agent that is.

Church was amazing. Like usual. Only difference was Brian (different than the one above...hence the spelling difference), our worship leader, told us that he wanted to talk to us after church. We figured it was for worship band because we had agreed a couple weeks ago to think about joining. After church we had to tell him we can't join until after we get back from Vietnam and Thailand since we're leaving in a couple weeks. However, their worship band was having a dinner that night and wanted us to come anyway. We already knew Stephan, Joel (pronounced Joelle), and Sharon, but the rest we either kinda know or didn't know. We agreed. So after church we went to our travel agent (we have to go on Sunday's since it's close to the church and expensive to get there) and figured we remembered the way from the last time we went. To save money we decided to walk. Well, Kristen thought it was to the left, I thought it was to the right. Who knew it was straight? We went my way, found an area that looked EXACTLY like where it was, wandered FOREVER before deciding every mountain in Korea looks the same and we weren't in the right spot. After two hours of walking we found a cab who got us there with a couple phone calls (no cab ever knows where it is). We spent 2 minutes picking up our VISAs and then realized we were a 15 minute walk from church. Church is right next to the World Cup Stadium. You'd think we'd remember something like that. So we went for hot chocolate for an hour before meeting the worship band for dinner.

Dinner was so fun! We got to joke around with those we knew and met a lot of awesome people. I love being able to have a network of strong Christians here and I'm so glad we decided to join. I can't wait until March now!

So that was my weekend. I just finished my first day of camp today. It was insane. I taugh all six periods. Tomorrow I teach four, Wednesday four, Thursday 2, then Friday we get to go on a field trip to Mokpo. Exciting because I don't have to pay! Or teach for that matter. Just have to make sure no kids get maimed or die.

2009 in Review....and 2010 beginnings

I can't believe how fast 2009 went. It has only been 11 months since I went dog sledding, 8 months since I graduated University, 6 1/2 since I got back from studying in Chicoutimi, 5 since my sister got married and 4 1/2 since I came to Korea. All this stuff and yet it's only been a year. Already for 2010 I have so many plans to travel and I can't wait for the exciting things this year will bring.
So before I talk about my New Years celebrations, here's some of the best things about Korea so far. Both in and out of the classroom. These are the things I haven't written here. I appologize if some are the same though.

1. Kpop. Seriously. It's awesome. Check out these songs and that is kpop in a crunch.

"Sorry Sorry" by Super Junior (Kristen and I know the dance...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAWqnA8PdcY

"Ring Ding Dong" by SHINee (we know part of this one too. See what we do with our free time?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roughtzsCDI&feature=fvst

"Man Man Ha Ni" by U-Kiss (watch the music video and then think about the fact these guys are between the ages of 16 and 21)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvgYTKEFxuw

"Love like this" by SS501 (this one is my current favourite kpop song ever)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imDcnoHMQMk

"Heartbreaker" by G-Dragon (He's part of Big Bang. This song grew on me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOXEVd-Z7NE&feature=fvst

"Lies" by Big Bang (I only like this one for the chorus and because it's mine and Kristen's kpop song that we sang in the Noraebong and got 100% on... yeah that's right. We sang Korean. Go us) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cv3phvP8Ro


"Sarangalhee" (love sick) by F.T. Island (second favourite behind "love like this")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bCr4Imp0Ts

"Again and Again" by 2PM (I only like 2PM because my girls LOVE them and they were the first kpop band I was told about. I'm really not a fan of any of their other stuff though.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUgReo37ECw

"Gee" by Girls Generation (singing this in a taxi will draw laughs from the taxi driver and make him very happy you know kpop)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mPqycQ0tQ

"Nobody" by Wonder Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFjP-OJ7Bh4

"I don't care" by 2NE1 (sick of this one, but the kids LOVE singing it to you when they don't care about something...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MgAxMO1KD0&feature=fvst

ok, I got a little carried away with the songs, but you need variety right? I could post so many more too. Like Kristen's favourite "Strong Baby" by Big bang or T.O.P? She's going to hate me for not remembering if it was the whole band who sang it or just T.O.P or maybe G-Dragon? I donno. She knows much more about kpop than I do. Or "Super Girl" by Super Junior. And then there's "Pajama Party" by Super Junior which is just plain adorable. Ok, on to other things.

2. The Classroom:

- Finding out how many students were actually fluent, or close to fluent, in English after the first class and then feeling like a complete fool when thinking about how I taught the first class. Good thing they don't remember those kind of things.
- Playing "Incomplete" by the Backstreet Boys for my grade three classes and watching one of my boys rocking out in his seat singing all the lyrics.
- Watching a student almost fall out of his chair, laughing at him, then realizing he saw me laughing thus between us we distracted the whole class who was supposed to be listening to Cindy talk about the exam.
- Trying to get students to answer a question and their answer is "Teacher, you're beautiful". Repeat the question and the answer is "Teacher, I love you".
- One of my students trying to explain "homie" to me by saying "you know, homie. Like, you and me are homies!"
- Doing grade two speaking tests and the very first student leaves the room and lets out the biggest relief sigh I have ever heard and exclaims to the other students it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. All while I'm laughing in the classroom because I could hear him.
- Watching how quickly the students caught on that if their answer is "Canada" they get extra points and a high five from me. Now every answer is Canada... not always what I'm looking for though.
- Grade three speaking tests and having one boy give me a synopsis of how he came to like Snoop Dogg. He got an A.
- Watching the students play games where the loser gets injured in some way or another and letting them do it... oops.
- Playing Gong ji with my students and watching their faces when they realize I know how to play already.
- Having snowballd fights with every single school, three times at one of them, and always ending up on the loosing side and covered in snow.
- Watching an entire class get punished because they were late for class and having one student put on a dramatic act telling me to call 119 (911 in Canada...).
- Teaching the kids how to do fist pumps and awesome handshakes.
- Having my students speak to me in Korean and when realizing I understood what they were asking (even if I don't understand the actual words they said), keep speaking to me in Korean.
- Cindy and my grade two classes... me: "Cindy! we can't play "sexy back" in class!" Cindy: "why not? they need to get introduced to club music early on!" (keep in mind Cindy is my co-teacher)
- Telling a student that Cindy was "out" when he asked where she was and having him misunderstand me and think I was kicking him out. I don't think he even understood when I tried to explain he wasn't being kicked out.

3. With the teachers:

- The constant concern over my choice in clothing... I apparently don't dress for the weather. However, if I did, I'd be sweating. No, it's NOT freezing out and I really don't need to wear my coat all day long unless you want me to feint of heat.
- Magic man and the surrounding stories
- Barefoot man and trying to set me up with his son (still haven't met him...)
- Teachers dinners... "oh, you don't want a beer? here, drink this (hands me a beer)"
- Gym teachers and their apparent affection for English teachers.
- Getting made fun of for my attempt to speak Korean. (it really is funny)
- Knowing they are talking about me even though they think I have no idea.
- Getting told I don't eat enough at least three times a week (trust me, I eat plenty)
- Being told I looked tired and should go sleep in the classroom for a while.


4. Outside the classroom:

- Dancing to "Sorry Sorry" with Kris everytime we hear it no matter where we are.
- Kia Tigers and our championship
- Getting lost....all the time.
- Wando, Seoul (clubFF!), Everland, Busan, Najangsan, Jirisan, Hwasun etc. (as seen in previous posts. Except Busan. That is later in this post)
- Super Fun Rockin' Christmas Dance Party (Club T.H) at my place.
- Cooking two turkey's, mashed potatoes, carrots, and stuffing before church on Thanksgiving.
- Hiking, hiking, and more hiking.
- Buying a guitar (best thing I bought in Korea. I missed playing)
- The ears and wearing them all over Korea and getting weird looks for it.
- IRIS and Boys over Flowers
- Lee Byung Hun, T.O.P, and Nagasaki handshakes.
- Mi Piache (Italian restaurant we frequent)
- Dinner with Mr. Lee, my grade three co-teacher, and his family and getting told by his oldest son (who is fluent in English and in University) that I look like Tyra Banks. NO idea how he figured that made any sense.
- Dance parties with Kris (which we haven't had in a while...)
- Sitting in my office and watching a high school student scale the building and climb into a second story window. I was the only one who saw and was killing myself laughing while every other teacher thought something was wrong with me.
- Watching fighter jets practice and seeing them whip around the moutains just like in the movies.
- Having kids say hello to you just because you speak English.
- Banana man
- Getting revenge on the idiot who swindled 1,000 won from Kris back in our first week here. He tried it again and I got to wave him by angrily in his face and give him dirty looks. I got an elbow in the arm for my efforts - he wasn't too impressed. Oh well. He knows not to mess with us again.
- Wolgwang English Ministry. Best thing that ever happened to me in Korea. I love that church and all the people in it.
- Kris falling down rocks. It was hilarious.
- Kris coming in my house looking like she rolled in dirt, grass, and blood after falling when running to my place.
- Baskin Robins. Enough said.
- Chain Gang infiltrating our neighbourhood. We have since claimed it back.
- Cafe crawls
- Kristen, Tara, Gabrielle. Good times all the time.
- Houze
- Halloween
- Boxing Day
- Christmas Eve and Day
- New Years... and here's that story:

There two pictures are basically our New Years summed up. We woke up December 31st to beautiful snow that we haven't seen in a few weeks. Almost missed our bus because the roads were terrible and we were running late, like usual. Got on the bus, an hour later we were outside of the snow and spent our New Years on the beaches of Haeundae in Busan on the Pacific Ocean.

Unam dong, Gwangju 9am December 31, 2009

















Haeundae Beach, Busan 1pm December 31, 2009




Watching the last sunset of the year on Haeundae beach.

We celebrated New Years on the beach and quickly realized that the countdown isn't important in Busan. We were six of about 30 people on the beach. We were the most enthusiastic of the bunch. Kris and I ran up and down the beach screaming. We watched some high school boys play these drum things. Danced around a little and then found a noraebong where we were told it was 20,000 won for the ENTIRE night (usually it's 10,000 an hour!) so we settled into a night of super awesome fun. I fell asleep for about and hour and half. Kris sang ALL night. We both sang to "lies" by Big Bang and scored 100% like I already mentioned. It is significant though so I mention it again. We rock kpop's socks.

At about 4:30 am we made our way out for breakfast. Gimbap, Bibimbap, and ddeokbokki. I LOVE ddeokbokki.

Next we waited for sunrise. Cafe's were lined with sleepers. In Canada they'd be kicked out by now. In Korea, they all just sleep. It looked like someone knocked out all the people in every cafe... it was hilarious! We found space in Starbucks (yeah, definitely didn't buy anything!) and crashed there for a while. The above picture is from there. Oh yes, the guy is Tom. We met him on the subway there. He's been in Korea a month. We showed him the ropes. He was pretty cool and we had an awesome time. I don't think we scared him off. Even when Kris and I broke into the "Sorry Sorry" dance. But anyone who can survive a noraebong experience with Kris and I can't be scared off by much else.

Here's the first peek of the sun. The beach had thousands on it by this point. I had to fight for a spot at the front. It took a bit for the sun to rise because of the clouds, but the first peek had everyone cheering! It was spectacular!

I got a soaker from taking this shot. A wave came too close, the Koreans all backed up, I used to it get to the front, but got a soaker as a result. My toes were so cold by that point.

Around 8am we left to go to bed. Here's the crowd that's left and one of the many video crews there. Who knows, maybe I made it on Korean TV? I already made it into the Korean newspaper.

After 4 1/2 hours of sleep we went on a cruise to Oryukdo island. It was BEAUTIFUL out! I look cold because it was a little cold with the wind, but oh so beautiful out!

Part of the island.

On the way back. I love this shot because of the seagull flying into the sun.

We pretty much crashed the rest of the night in our motel. Watched a little kpop and random movies on TV before going to bed really early. The next day we had an "American breakfast" where the "sausages" turned out to be mini hotdogs. What a disapointment! Then we went to the UN memorial park in Nam-gu, a little bit away from Haeundae. The first picture was the only grave with something by it. The second picture is the memorial wall of everyone who died in the Korean War.

The first one below is a Canadian soldier who died at 19. There were so many grave of boys who died between 19-21. It's heartbreaking to think of it. It wasn't only the Korean War like that. Going to these memorials always gets me thinking about that. What really is the point of war? I guess that's why I'm so interested in it.

The second one below is the Canadian memorial with the graves of the Canadian soldiers. The only graves that are here are the ones of the soldiers whose real grave is unknown.

This last photo really gets to me. This water way, which goes the length of the memorial where the graves for the soldiers whose real grave is unknown, was created in memory of the death of the youngest soldier who died in the Korean war. He was 17.

After spending the afternoon at the memorial we went back to the bus station and headed on home to Gwangju...where the snow had all but disapeared. Sigh. All that's left is ice.

*And I just remembered so I'll add this now. We also went to Korea's largest underground aquarium the first day we were here. My pictures aren't the greatest since it was dark and my camera doesn't work in the dark. But we went and it was AWESOME. Love the sharks.