Here are some shots of Na-hyun, Anna, Pamela and me tooling around in Seoul on Children's Day. It's a "Red Day" here in South Korea, which means all schools and many businesses are closed but, of course, not my hogwan! However, we worked from 9am to 3pm (instead of the usual 4:45 until 10:45pm) which allowed us to head out and see the sights! We are in Insadong, an adorable area of Seoul.
This section actually reminded me a lot of Los Angeles, and this outdoorish shopping center more than anything else screamed Southern California.
Buddha's birthday is in May (the 21st, if I remember correctly) and there are paper lanterns strung all throughout the city in commemoration. This was early in the month of May, and it was twilight, so all the lanterns were lit.
Here's Pamela in the foreground, and behind her you can see scads of the paper lanterns in front of the buddhist temple.
Here's little Pammers again in front of King Sae-jong, who is very respected here in Korea. He is most celebrated as the creator of Korea's written language, Hangeul.
This was DYB's founder and president's 1st birthday celebration for his newest offspring. First birthday's are quite a big deal here in Korea, and if you're an employee at a major company, they're apparently mandatory-attendance shindigs.
Here some DYB employees are signing the book of well-wishings, and leaving presents and/or money.
The first banquet room (we were in the overflow room, which was awesome, because we could chat without censure! All the goings-on were on huge monitors instead of happening directly in front of us. We were thus not subjecting to lots of "shooshing".)
My DYB Yeong-tong branch homies!
The spread was amazing, and so was the view. It's strange eating lunch at 11am, though, when we all have to get back to our respective branches for work in the afternoon. DYB can only schedule meetings in the mornings on weekdays since everyday is a workday.
Love these girls. From left to right: Kyung-hee, Anna, Na-hyun, and Jeong-hyeon.
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Here are some shots of Na-hyun, Anna, Pamela and me tooling around in Seoul on Children's Day. It's a "Red Day" here in South Korea, which means all schools and many businesses are closed but, of course, not my hogwan! However, we worked from 9am to 3pm (instead of the usual 4:45 until 10:45pm) which allowed us to head out and see the sights! We are in Insadong, an adorable area of Seoul.
This section actually reminded me a lot of Los Angeles, and this outdoorish shopping center more than anything else screamed Southern California.
Buddha's birthday is in May (the 21st, if I remember correctly) and there are paper lanterns strung all throughout the city in commemoration. This was early in the month of May, and it was twilight, so all the lanterns were lit.
Here's Pamela in the foreground, and behind her you can see scads of the paper lanterns in front of the buddhist temple.
Here's little Pammers again in front of King Sae-jong, who is very respected here in Korea. He is most celebrated as the creator of Korea's written language, Hangeul.
This was DYB's founder and president's 1st birthday celebration for his newest offspring. First birthday's are quite a big deal here in Korea, and if you're an employee at a major company, they're apparently mandatory-attendance shindigs.
Here some DYB employees are signing the book of well-wishings, and leaving presents and/or money.
The first banquet room (we were in the overflow room, which was awesome, because we could chat without censure! All the goings-on were on huge monitors instead of happening directly in front of us. We were thus not subjecting to lots of "shooshing".)
My DYB Yeong-tong branch homies!
The spread was amazing, and so was the view. It's strange eating lunch at 11am, though, when we all have to get back to our respective branches for work in the afternoon. DYB can only schedule meetings in the mornings on weekdays since everyday is a workday.
Love these girls. From left to right: Kyung-hee, Anna, Na-hyun, and Jeong-hyeon.
I entered the shot!
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