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Well, I found that my desired two chapter trip to Taiwan and Korea would not work. It seems that it is high season here in the Orient and trips via the hair plane cost a lot more do re mi than than one would expect. so it the across the old SOJ (Sea of Jaypan) I went and landed in Busan (Pusan to the homefries).
Weelll, Busan looked interesting for all of 30 minutes, the time it took me to get to Busan Station and get a KTX(their version of the bullet train) to Seoul. Upon landing in SEoul in just over two hours, I went to find a cheap hotel, and Seoul is full of cheap ass love hotels. Which brings me to an unfortunate point about Asia. For folks who just love to cheat lie and secrify thier love lives, you think they could actually have honest to goodness porn in thier love hotel. Jaypan as we all know, loves to pixelate thier pubes, while the unfortunate souls in Korea must deal with, gasp, nothing less than cable version style TV in thier hotel rooms. Shame shame on thier shamey shame adult video industries.
On the other hand, they do carry coverage of the Starcraft playoffs. Thats right MTM, you can watch crazy ass Koreans go at it head to head with televised commentary (not that I understood a lick of it all that week) and I found the late night action quite engaging (far mroe so than the lame as CV porn) and often stayed up til like 3 or so just watching the freaks go at it. Hear that Spokey, that is what that freak died of if have to guess, playing fucking Starcraft for 50 hours straight no doubt. Amazing that a game is nearing a decade old Ithink) can inspire that kind of patronage. They aired some World of Warcraft but I found less interesting. I kept thinking of the days of watching MTM and Dr. Colossus play for hours, creating thier little Maginot lines and egad! Backdooring one another! and was very surprised at the tactics of the crafty Koreans, who went for quick victories using cyclones instead of heavy fortification and a long buildup of armor and infantry. But I digress.
Seoul,...well, the food was brutally hot, and it allowed you to sweat out the realtively thin OB (Oriental Brewery) Beer that everyone carried to complement thier chili loaded fares. I cannot even pronounce anything past Kimchee chigae or Bi bim bap so do not ask me exactly what I dined upon. Know this. It hurts. I did not think myself a masochist, but I enjoyed the physical pain this food caused. I did not however enjoy the posteriori pains that followed, more due to a bad case of the quick step than the spicey chow, but the combination is crippling. I am presently trying to deal with the dysentery using a Japanese concoction that involves creosote of all things and am remeinded of a day when MTM waxed poetiv of how to solve runny butt by adding campfire charcoal to your grub. Yet each day I belch the flavor of telephonepole, and railroad tye and I long for Immodium AD.
I visited many a palace, gate, and market. Most of the palace structures pointed out that the japanese had destroyed the originals in a late 16th century invasion. One of thier national monuments was actually turned into a zoo by occupying Japanese forces during the events taht were basically to lead to WWII (pre US involvement). Ouchy Mcwouchy, thats a nono on anybodys colonial expansion list. The Koreans are not forgetting, and sadly thats all that the Japanese want to do. DOn't really know how all that will straighten itself out. Sides, the comfort wife issue is a bit more touchy than any palace to zoo renovation in my book.
End Korea PT. one, Must sleep on the desk of the internet Cafe I am bedding at.