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• While we were in China, at meseum's they had audio guides, devices with headphones and a key pad, and each artifact that had audio had a number that you punched into the key pad to hear. I told Daniela that soon with RFID or other new coming wireless tech these audio guides would be replaced by ones that just detected where you were and just started talking. Then we got to Korea and they ALREADY HAD THEM in their meseums! Welcome to the future.
• Korea likes us. Both Canada and Colombia (only latin american country) sent soldiers to fight for South Korea in the Korean war. As we learned at the war museum about 500 Candians died for the cause and over 200 Colombias died for the cause. They remember and still appreciate us. This is the first country Daniela has ever gotten into with out a Visa (she has a Colombian passport), which was totally cool! Also, they have both our (and the other 14 countries who pitched in) flags all over the place. It's cool, I've never seen so many Colombian flags or even Canadian flags :P
• They restored this cool river right in a busy part of their city and it's nice and fancy so we were walking along it when suddenly *bam* laser and music dance show. They had a mist wall generator in the river and a laser that could paint onto it and they had a visual show and music! It was crazy awesome, and surprisingly good visuals and frame rate. They had lots of neat visual effects of shapes and stuff doing things and then a person dancing to the music. Haven't seen anything like that in Vancouver... :P
• Their Metro System: 15ish lines, huge and gigantic, but thats not all. They have nice money cards, you just sit them on the machine and put money in and they "charge". They just way them at the toll gates or in front of the panel on a bus and bam, you can get in and it shows you on the panel screen how much money you spent and have left. And we found out these are working with more things too when Daniela found out it worked with pay phones too!
• English, again, like Shanghai, many people here have some basic English like numbers and a few other basic phrases which is great for us!
• It's just a nice modern city. It agrees with us well. And the food is great! And no massively filtered internet... :P etc etc. It's good times.

So far we've seen some Buddhist temples, the giant tower on the mountain,
a couple old palaces in the middle of the city, a jail, tons of awesome
restaurants, some neat malls, the museum, the war memorial museum, the JSA
(DMZ area between North and South Korea) and today we went to a wicked
amazing amusement park with really cools rides!

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