National Museum of Korea and Lotte Zetaplex Hypermarket
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Since the hotel room had a kitchen, we had breakfast in the room. We were able to find most of what we wanted from the nearby convenience store. The street in front of the hotel was closed in the morning for a marathon. We took the subway to the National Museum of Korea. It’s quite large and the permanent exhibitions are free. We concentrated on the calligraphy and Buddhist statue exhibits on the third floor.
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| National Museum of Korea |
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| Carved pagoda inside the museum. |
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| Song Si-yeol (송시열, 1607–1689) - philosopher and calligrapher, wearing a gat. |
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| Carved Buddha head. |
We took the subway to Seoul station and had lunch at Connect Place - a shopping and dining complex. I had some really good bibimbap. We could see the old Seoul Station, which was built during the Japanese colonial period. It was interesting to see its resemblance to Tokyo station.
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| The design of the Seoul Subway stations was very creative. Each one was different. This one had cool brickwork. |
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| Bibimbap for lunch! |
Also attached to the station is the Lotte Zetaplex Hypermarket. It was crazy - so packed with shoppers! The prices were super-good. The ladies at the kimchi area were giving us all kinds of samples. We wanted to buy some of the cabbage kimchi, so they brought out like a gallon sized container! No way we could eat that much in a week. In the end, they filled up their smallest size container with fresh kimchi. We got some salad, salad dressing, oatmeal and prunes, coffee, and so many other things for dinner and our healthy breakfasts. We had dinner back at the hotel.
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| Impressive display of kimchi! |
Proceed to next day ->
