Seoul Was Not a Front Line This Weekend

This weekend I headed up to Seoul to go to a meeting with my new MA program directors and visit friends, or as CNN would put it, I walked on to the front lines of a major global flash point. Funny, felt like a cool spring weekend in a big city.


Photo evidence of alleged North Korean attacks:

I reality I took the KTX to Seoul at 8am and went west to Mokdong to meet Kris for a coffee. I then went to Hongkik University to meet Greg and, eventually, Mike to meet and get key info on our new program. It was informative and actually really useful.

Afterwards those boys were out for a big night but I wasn't so I went back to meet Kris, who was a great host. We explored his new neighbourhood around Mokdong, got some food and a few drinks and had a good time. The weather is still not as warm as i wish it was up there, but certainly much nicer than last time (over my birthday, which may have been the coldest weather I have ever experienced).

Anyway a few pics from my phone:

a foggy morning in Mokdong

Mokdong from Omokgyo Station.

Crossing the Han River

Mokdong

Mokdong

View from Bier Garten, a very Koreanized

German bar.

but cool decorations

keeps it cold

Hongdae area Sunday morning...... the threat

from the north seems imminent doesn't it?

(k, I'll stop beating that horse).

Kris in Hongdae

프로야구남 - He will save us from Kim III

It was a great nuclear bomb free weekend in Seoul. I feel ready to dig in to school and I got to the big city for a good weekend.