Yeouido

Just a quickie......On a recent weekend, Lynne and I decided to explore another district of Seoul. As you can tell by now, it will take a very long time to fully explore every part of this mammoth city!

Yeouido is often referred to as Seoul's "Manhattan", or "Wall Street". It's known as the latter due to it housing the majority of big skyscrapers, financial institutions and stock exchange headquarters. I think it used to be an island in the Han River, but was reclaimed as part of the mainland in a massive project.

We had planned to visit the 63 KLI Building (3rd largest in Korea), which supposedly has a few attractions, as well as an observation floor, but after a long walk from Yeongdeungpo Market we were far too tired. Incidentally, Yeongdeungpo Market was partially closed, which was disappointing as we were looking forward to seeing many weird and wonderful sights. Including the cages of dogs, who aren't exactly for sale in the capacity of pets. Soon though!

So, it was a short trip, and Yeouido Park was quite nice, slap bang in the middle of all the skyscrapers. The statue is Great King Sejong. Apologies for the dull post........In the next one, we climbed up a mountain and were invited to eat some pig's trotters with a Korean family. It always seems to be up mountains that bizarre foods are forced upon us! That said, just like the goat, the pig trotter was very tasty!