We’ve wrapped up our Korea stay and have moved on to Japan. We’ve been steadily catching up on content and editing after technical / software challenges the first week. The food here in Japan is good, but everyone loved the food in Korea. As you can see from this video, we ate A LOT of…
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Busan, Korea
We wrapped up our Korean journey by spending three days / four nights in Busan, South Korea’s second largest city. This city of 3 million people is wedged between the Sea of Japan and nearby mountains, so its very dense and vertical. We went there to visit Marian’s cousin and her daughter, as well as…
Gyeongju, Korea
After several rainy days in Busan we hired a van for a day-long excursion north to visit Gyeongju, home of the Silla Empire. In historic times Korea had three kingdoms: Gorguryeo, Baekje and Silla. Around 600 AD Silla united / conquered the other two to unite the country that is now Korea. They would go…
Korea DMZ
The Korea DMZ (demilitarized zone) splits the country in half and is located a few tens of kilometers north of Seoul. For my generation the Korean War is somewhat lost to history, obscured between World War II and more modern conflicts such as the Vietnam and Gulf Wars. Our only context is faint childhood memories…
Seoul Day 1
Finally getting caught up on the video editing after a slow start due to software issues. We have set up a youtube channel which we will figure out how to link to at some point. Don’t worry though, all videos will be linked from this blog. Here’s a few covering our first full day in…
Off to College – Part 2
Following up the previous post, Spaceflight’s SSO-A mission was a complete success. Here’s a great video from SpaceX on the first part of the mission, which is the ride into orbit. There is no video from the second part of the mission, which is the deployment of 64 spacecraft. However, telemetry has confirmed this happened…
Cheonan, Korea
If you look up “top 20 things to do in Korea”, going to Cheonan is not one of them. We went here to see Ho Ja Kim, Ann’s best friend growing up. Cheonan is an industrial city whose existence owes to sitting geographically at the intersection of three valleys, and therefore it became a key…