Monday, August 20, 2007

PMPn'

You see these PMP ("Portable Multimedia Player") thingies in taxis a lot, providing navigational data or showing Korean TV shows. Ann got one the other day, and I watched Harry Potter on it on the way to Seoul.

oosamgyeopsal and autoduckies

This weekend I hung out with Tremendous and the new teacher Friday night. Ate OOsamgyeopsal (beef samgyeopsal. Delicious!), and hung out at Lucky Strike in Dunsan. Later we introduced the new teacher to Bubi Bubi.

Saturday, Ann and I headed to Seoul to see Man of La Mancha on Sunday. We went to COEX Mall when we arrived. We toured the mall, visited the aquarium, and ate at "O'" Kim's, a popular Seoul microbrewery. The next day we ate some lunch and then saw the play. It was great...except that it had been translated into Korean. Other than that it was true to the original - they did not adopt Korean mannerisms, and the performance was top notch.

After that we headed over to *** Resort, near where many parts of 괴물 (The Host) were filmed. We road duck boats, and unlike the unfortunate paddlers, Ann wisely upgraded ours to an upscale "autoducky." (it had a motor). Then, we had a nice wine dinner at the restaurant connected to the duck boat rental. Finally, we barrelled home in speeding buses and taxis.