South Korea or Bust

We just completed our second full day in Seoul, South Korea and man am I tired... So much to see and do! Ill try to summarize our past few days for you.

Day 0 - We started everything with a planned 8:45, 9:15 actual (due to Yaphet's personal sleep schedule) departure from Wheaton College. After a 13 hour flight from Chicago to Tokyo, we boarded our connecting flight to Seoul where we were met by our lovely guide, Park, at around 10pm on Tuesday night. All in all, we basically lost an entire day (no worries, we will get it back when we fly back!)

Day 1 - To start our day, we had the best breakfast buffet ever... Korean beef, soft boiled eggs, bacon, eggs, cereal, yogurt, fresh fruit, and a little duck! After that, our first official day was full of touristy stops via public transportation. Really cool to see how people in the world's second most dense city in the world operate. Everything is very efficient and clean here! The subways are extremely quite, clean, and convenient, which was incredibly surprising considering the city is larger than New York City. Our guide, Park, took us to a couple different palaces that have been around for a ridiculous amount of time! The second palace was really cool. It looked like your traditional ancient Asian palace, you know, like from Mulan! The amount of history here is amazing. After our day of walking all over Seoul, we went out to eat as a group to a Korean BBQ place down the road. Our hotel is right next to a local university, so there are tons of college students running around. After dinner, which was on the floor, we decided to wonder around a little! Not the smartest idea necessarily... Haha. Got lost for a little while, but found our way back after a little unplanned site seeing! So that wrapped up that day.

Day 2 - Early morning wake up at 6 for our trip to a company called Erom. Erom makes nutritional meal supplements made of all natural materials and is a BAM organization as well. It was interesting to see how they mixed their way of business with their mission of spreading the word of God. After we met with their CEO, we drove an hour and a half our of Seoul, through the mountains, to their factory. They were very health conscious the entire time, and we had to get all scrubbed down before we could look around. This tour went a little long, so the CEO took our group out to a great Korean BBQ place. Very fancy... The meat just kept coming! After this, we went back to Seoul, where the Erom CEO had set up a meeting with the CEO of Samsung Sports for us. Samsung is HUGE!!! Really cool to see how they operate. Giant companies are divided up into a bunch of different sectors, well, at least Samsung is. Another night of Korean BBQ and here I am. Pretty packed trip so far! Loving every minute of it... Off to see what the night life is like with the boys!



Tommy