Stealing the Seoul of South Korea! Part 4

Alright. I'm back in Wuhan now.  Thailand with Cathy was a blast!  But just like my Japan trip last year, I've neglected my blog during my adventures.  Looks like I'll have update while the new school term begins.  Cathy is working right now and I don't go back until the 20th, so I have some time to write on this thing.  Okay, enough explanation of what's going on in Wuhan.

...Day 4, Seoul, South Korea...

Seoul Station. Sue, Kwangseok and I took public transit to the De-Militarized Zone.  We missed our train and had to sit around for an hour. Totally my bad...

The public transit route to the DMZ  had multiple passport and ticket checks.

Until Korean unification, this is the last stop going north.

A nice reminder to keep to the prescribed tourist areas of the DMZ, unless of course you want your legs to evaporate into red mist.

Kwangseok and I pose at the "camera line" that overlooks North Korea.  You cannot take photographs past the line or your camera gets taken away.

North Korea tried to dig an extensive tunneling system towards Seoul so they could easily invade it.  South Korea, upon uncovering this devious plot, turned the tunnels into a tourist attraction. Sue and I don the hardhats required to enter the tunnels.

A unification statue

Some sort of Kim Chi

We had lunch at a local restaurant in a small town.

Steamed egg

Sue bought some DMZ chocolates for Cathy.

The massive Seoul World Cup Stadium. 

Part of the stadium was converted into a supermarket.  Sue and her Kwangseok suggest to me various Korean foods and drinks to buy.

A wide variety of  makgeolli

The hill that we climbed near the stadium.  

The hill overlooked Seoul and the Han River. The view became very beautiful right at nightfall. 

A very prestigious Korean university that has some pretty good student nightlife surrounding it.  We stopped here to have dinner.

...but before that we got our appetites going. Kwangseok led the batting game while Sue and I tied for second.  It was really fun. A punching strength machine was outside as well. Apparently, some people like practicing their kicks on it.  My left hay-maker got second place.

To prevent your your jacket from getting a stinky and oily stench,  some restaurants provide a big plastic bag to put your jacket in to save it from offending people after your meal. Ingenious!

Luke warm noodle appie.

Animal's innards. I think Kwangseok and Sue were surprised that I liked this stuff.

Fried savory egg pancake?  I don't remember what it's called.

Soju. We had lots of it.

The restaurant had delicious food, but we left and walked around in search for a different taste.

BBQ pork and more soju.