Incheon Beach Trip

In Korea, resorts, or condos, or beach houses, or whatever are called pensions. I don't know why and can't explain it, but that's just the way it is. It's essentially a beach house with nice accommodations that are fairy cheap to rent. We had five adults split a one night room for around 30,000 ($25), so yeah, pretty great option for trips.

The weather report said rain all weekend, but we had already booked the place (with no refund), and had gone shopping for food and drink. We decided to just let the bones fall where they may (Willow reference). Incheon is about an hour outside of Seoul and also located along the Western coast of SK.

As it turned out, the weather was fantastic.



Annyeong. Enjoying the cool breeze and nice weather.



Hangul for 'hello'.


Hae-min vs. wind. Wind:1, Hae-min: 0.



My co-worker's daughter, Hae-bin. SO photogenic rocking the stunner shades.



Some fisherman along the jetty. The tide was very low when we were on the beach.


An old, haggard boat waiting for the tide to return.


Our view from the room. This is where we were pounding samgyeopsal 20 minutes later.



Another view of the water from our room.


Beach shot #1.

Beach shot #2.


Beach shot #3.




Late-night shenanigans after teaching the gang Kings.

Bullseye

The following video is from one of my favorite shows (Flight of the Conchords) is pretty spot-on. Not only is he actually reading/singing Korean but the video in the background are exactly what are shown at the noraebang. They have absolutely no bearing on the song being shown but make for some pretty hilarious song/video combinations.

I love the water skiing clip the most.

Korea vs. Australia

Last Saturday I went to a friendly between Korea and Australia at World Cup Stadium. This stadium is famous for playing host to the 2002 World Cup in Korea, in which Korea fared quite well.

The stadium itself is state of the art. It holds almost 70,000 people and is very modern looking. Also connected to the stadium is a huge shopping mart, theaters, and a host of other restaurants. Ticket prices were 10,000, 30,000, and 50,000 Won respectively. We opted for the 30,000W seats which had a pretty good view of the field.

Korea ended up winning the game. Similar to my baseball games here, the fans are really loud and vocal which is really fun. Every time Park Ji-sung touched the ball everybody went ape.






Opening ceremony with the Korean band sporting some yellow hanboks.



The 'fan section' rocking a huge flag.



Game on!



Celebrations after the first goal.



A well placed corner kick to an Aussie's head.




I'm getting pretty excited for the World Cup next year!

The Pride of Pyongyang

Anything media-related out of NK I find to be pretty interesting. Take this following beer commercial. I think this ad came out this year, yet it looks to be current circa 1986.

I like the shot of the scientists in labcoats approving of the quality. It looks a little too 'heady' for my palette but apparently it's quite superb.

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