Gandalf, Marylin Monroe, and Dunkin' Donuts

I arrived in Korea yesterday on a flight from Signapore Air.  I must say, Singapore Air provided the best international flight experience I’ve had so far.  The seats were comfortable, the food was passable, and the entertainment was plentiful.  I will most certainly be using them in the future whenever I can.

One of my favorite things about Korea is the random snippets of western culture.  When I was in grade school, a teacher once gave the assignment to make a collage.  I remember just going through magazines and cutting out pictures of anything I thought was interesting.  The resulting project was . . . interesting to say the least.  However, that collage is sort of like what walking through the streets of Korea can be like.  Behold.

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This statue is in front of a cafe

YOU SHALL NOT PASS!

Not really sure what this guy has to do with Karaoke

Too many donuts for a single story

Forget London Bridge, the South Gate is Burning!!

Korea’s number one national treasure was burnt down on Feb 10th. How do I know that it is the number one national treasure? Because Korea numbers each of the national treasures by rank, and the South Gate of Seoul was number one! This would be akin to somebody going and blowing up the Statue of Liberty in America. The structure was over 600 years old, and marked one of the historic entrances into Seoul. The government estimates that it will take three years, and over 20 million dollars to rebuild the gate. I’ve never been there, but I have been to the East Gate of Seoul. Now I wish I had listened to my friends and gone to the South Gate…