South Korea

I'm finally getting around to documenting some of my travels.

I visited Seoul, South Korea for a large eSports tournament in September.  Korea was beautiful with mild temperatures and clean air.  It's very spread out and flat - most of our day trips often took an hour to travel from one part of the city to another.

One of the interesting bits our tour guide pointed out was the lack of mature trees and forests around the city due to heavy bombing during the wars in the last century.

Seoul is very spread out

National Theatre where we saw traditional drumming performances.

We ate here for lunch.  No one spoke any English so we all ended up getting the only thing we already knew how to say in Korean: Be Bin Bop.  The staff laughed a lot.

We visited a "traditional folk village".

And what would a folk village be without mascots and amusement park rides!

Bridge in the Folk Village - the fall colors were really starting.

I'm in love.   I ate tons of Korean BBQ on the trip.

The view from the Lotte World hotel, including the inflatable yellow duck.  The building under construction will be the highest in Seoul. Lotte is a huge conglomerate in South Korea, you see their name everywhere.

Sold out 40,000 in attendance at the game.  Coke sold cans customized with Lux on it.

ESports are big in Korea - here is the crowd after gates opened.  It was great to experience.

Overall I really enjoyed South Korea.  The people were friendly, the food was good and the air and water were clean (what a simple thing to suddenly appreciate).   I'm looking forward to going back with the family.