Wow, I've got pretty lax on this already. Rubbish.
On thursday I went to Changdeokgung Palace, which has an incredible 'secret garden' at the back, covering an enormous area of central seoul. I did the self-guided audio tour, which was prety interesting, and spent ages wandering around the garden/woods, returning only to find that I had been sodding rinsed by the mosquitos, with about eight bites on my feet and a further three on my face, which have swollen up nicely and give the impression that I have the plague.
Kate got us free passes to the international family film festival, which was one of the most bizare thing sI've seen. We couldn't find it for ages, and when we eventualy did it consisted of a huge outdoor scren showinng the end of some short film or other, followed by a 'special performance' by Eugene Park, a violinist. He began with some fairly standard stuff, and a slightly cringy cover of my heart will go on, then a girl came on with some dancers and did some awful K-pop song, with him paying violin along with it. Then, out of nowhere, he started rapping, some nonsense begining with "hey yo, what you got...'. He then proceeded to play some madness song or other, at breakneck speed, and flight of the Bumblebee (slightly out of tune) and really really fast. There was then a short film that any one of us could have made, which prompted us to run away and find solace in Japanese Food round the corner. Finaly, we went out to Ho Bar with Jan, Steve and Christine to commemorate (probably not the right word) Jan's last night in Korea.
We taught Christine how to play fives (which she never once lost) and freezemaster (which she rather excelled at also).
All in all, quite a good night.
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