World Cup 2002!
23 March 2002 | ||
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| Flags and a huge football outside of City Hall in Seoul, just next to our Hotel.... | ||
Hello Again!
23 March 2002 | ||
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| Meeting Sohee again in Seoul.... | ||
Korean temple at night
23 March 2002 | ||
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| A temple just right next to the Seoul Tower. | ||
Seoul at Night
23 March 2002 | ||
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| A view over the city of Seoul at night as seem from Seoul Tower.... | ||
Selftimers never totally work
23 March 2002 | ||
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| This lady with a mouth mask looked at us why we were standing there and then jumped, when the flash went off.... She didn't see the camera on the vending machine... | ||
City Hall of Seoul
23 March 2002 | ||
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| Seoul's City Hall with a giant lit up football to celebrate the upcoming worldcup.... | ||
Worldcup Stadium
24 March 2002 | ||
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| Korea's main worldcup stadium at the outskirts of Seoul. Outside of it there were some rehousing developments to move the people living in poor conditions next to the stadium into other areas. Very compact stadium, seats 65000, I am sure the atmosphere here will be fantastic.... About 10 miles from the border.... | ||
Let the games begin
24 March 2002 | ||
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| Sohee in front of the worldcup stadium..... | ||
Porno Ginseng
24 March 2002 | ||
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| For some bizarre reason the images of these roots make me feel warm inside... Well, kidding, but they look like a cross between the Alien Resurrection production design and a Helmut Newton Nudes. | ||
Ginseng Pushers
24 March 2002 | ||
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| Hey, originally we were going to go to the DMZ, but at the end of the tour, we were pushed to buy three year old Ginseng products at this Ginseng store, where they tried to prevent me from taking this photo.... I was certainly more interested in the pornographic Ginseng photos on the wall and my laughing disturbed the pushers.... | ||
Deutsches Schwein, Gott erhalts
24 March 2002 | ||
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| Zur Feier des Tages: Schweinefleisch.... Come on Goethe-Institut, if this is what the rest of the world thinks about Germany, then you have lots of work to do ;-) | ||
The Mug Hof Club
24 March 2002 | ||
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| A few years ago, I remember reading a paper that a South Korean business man opened up a German theme restaurant called 'Hitlerhof'. | ||
California Girl
24 March 2002 | ||
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| As opposed to German Culture, the Seoulians seem to have grasped the concept of California very well.... Sweat off pounds in the gym, 24 hours around the clock..... | ||
Streets of Seoul
24 March 2002 | ||
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| Shopping area in Seoul with the obligatory lights..... Lots of nice Korean Restaurants in the area..... Mmmmmhhh, Korean Food.... | ||
Geunjeongmun Entrance Gate to the Gyeongbokgung palace
25 March 2002 | ||
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| Seoul has an enormous amount of old temples, palaces and shrines.... Very beautiful.... | ||
Roofs of the palace....
25 March 2002 | ||
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| Amazing roofs of the Gyeongbokgung palace.... The hall in the middle is where the royalties slept.... | ||
Hyangwonjong
25 March 2002 | ||
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| For some reason I truly enjoy those Korean names.... | ||
Temples in Seoul
25 March 2002 | ||
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| Beautiful flowers blooming... Still a few weeks before the Cheery Blossoms.... | ||
Noisemachine
25 March 2002 | ||
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| Asian schoolkids are the ultimate noisemachines.... | ||
Gyeonghoeru
25 March 2002 | ||
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| With trees blossoming.... | ||
Traditional Korean Costumes
25 March 2002 | ||
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| Korean women in traditional Korean costumes.... | ||
Look from the hotel
25 March 2002 | ||
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| Look from the Westin Chosun hotel on a small temple in front of it... Like almost everything in Seoul it was under construction that day.... | ||
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