My famous daughter-in-law

[ShadowsPapa]

Eun Jung (Park) - AKA "EJ", my oldest son's wife, has written educational books used in Korean schools to teach Korean children English (and in a way, about U.S. society)

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[Jrgunn5150]

That's cool!

 

[NC_Overland]

That’s awesome. My ex was born in Seoul, but raised in CA. I went with her to S Korea for two weeks. It’s a very diverse country geographically and large cities vs the countryside and small villages, the coast, new vs old, etc. They love Americans and were super warm and inviting and wanted to help whenever they could.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

That’s awesome. My ex was born in Seoul, but raised in CA. I went with her to S Korea for two weeks. It’s a very diverse country geographically and large cities vs the countryside and small villages, the coast, new vs old, etc. They love Americans and were super warm and inviting and wanted to help whenever they could.

We spent a couple of weeks there as well. We stayed with them while they owned an apartment in the same building EJ's mother lived in. We could walk to a lot of places. One one of our walks, it was quite interesting as when we left the city and the tall buildings, it instantly turned to huts, small farms worked by hand, apple orchards with very interesting ways to support the tree branches, and what we'd consider "gardens on hill sides - those where their farms. It was like going to a whole different country, just walking a mile.
We noticed around their building almost all of the cars had notes on the windows with phone numbers.
My son said that's so if you need to get your car out and that car is parked behind yours, you call, they come out and move the car so you can get yours out. No problem, it's part of life. Cars were parked sometimes 3 deep in a parking lot - or along the roads, they may have been parked in 2 parallel rows and you needed someone to move so you could get out.. Just call them.
We went through a number of mountain tunnels, then opened up to plains, modern highways, country roads.
We took an "elevated" to one location and when we passed close (really close) to apartment buildings, the windows blacked out automatically.
Seoul - that was an experience. Took a train there, modern, FAST, comfortable. The traffic -WOW.
Some city streets were 5 or 6 lanes wide. You don't left turn at an intersection, you go past that intersection until you see a U-turn sign, and then make a U-turn, go back to that intersection and turn right.
Always felt totally SAFE, everyone minded their own business (normally nose in the cell phone, especially on public transportation) Friendly as heck.

We also took the flight to Jeju island and spent some time there, and went back and went to a real fish market - got a lot of pictures and videos there as some of the food was still moving at the vendor stands.

 

[NC_Overland]

We spend a couple of weeks there as well. We stayed with them while they owned an apartment in the same building EJ's mother lived in. We could walk to a lot of places. One one of our walks, it was quite interesting as when we left the city and the tall buildings, it instantly turned to huts, small farms worked by hand, apple orchards with very interesting ways to support the tree branches, and what we'd consider "gardens on hill sides - those where their farms. It was like going to a whole different country, just walking a mile.
We noticed around their building almost all of the cars had notes on the windows with phone numbers.
My son said that's so if you need to get your car out and that car is parked behind yours, you call, they come out and move the car so you can get yours out. No problem, it's part of life. Cars were parked sometimes 3 deep in a parking lot - or along the roads, they may have been parked in 2 parallel rows and you needed someone to move so you could get out.. Just call them.
We went through a number of mountain tunnels, then opened up to plains, modern highways, country roads.
We took an "elevated" to one location and when we passed close (really close) to apartment buildings, the windows blacked out automatically.
Seoul - that was an experience. Took a train there, modern, FAST, comfortable. The traffic -WOW.
Some city streets were 5 or 6 lanes wide. You don't left turn at an intersection, you go past that intersection until you see a U-turn sign, and then make a U-turn, go back to that intersection and turn right.
Always felt totally SAFE, everyone minded their own business (normally nose in the cell phone, especially on public transportation) Friendly as heck.

We also took the flight to Jeju island and spent some time there, and went back and went to a real fish market - got a lot of pictures and videos there as some of the food was still moving at the vendor stands.

Yeah, I spent a week in Seoul. I found out how wealthy her family was and was Waited on hand and foot. They owned a group of apartment building towers. A mix of condos and apartments. They had those vehicle elevators. I discovered how kind everyone was when we got away from the city on our own. We went to the DMZ zone on the north, all the way down to the southern coast. We not really liked busan. The mtns in between were beautiful, but it was crazy how much they looked like the Appalachians.

Yeah those fish markets are wild. They had them in Seoul too. Anyone who complains about Asian drivers never saw them drive in Seoul. I don’t know how there weren’t more accidents.

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