I'm typing like crazy here. It may look as if the posts are being put in here on occasion, but I've entered everthing in the past hour or so. The internet connection wouldn't work in my first room, so I have had to relocate and then mess around with the settings on the laptop to connect to a cable. It was enough to let this little piece of electronics go flying out the 9th floor window. Not really, I've become a much more patient guy in my old age.
Anyway, today was the real first day of the institute. Got a lot of information and met a lot of people. There's 40 of us plus about 5 institute employees, mostly graduate students at Yonsei University. The day was spent on lectures, starter stuff, two pretty fancy meals and a campus tour. Too much information to digest and discuss, but the two sentence version is that Korea has gone through the most rapid economic development in the past 50 years of any country in the world. They have also experienced the most rapid decline in fertility rates. So things are changing here in major ways at a major speed. Also, the written language is way logical, easy to figure out. Very regular and predictable. Going to get up at 3 AM to attend a Buddhist prayer ceremony at 4, so planning on getting to bed soon. City is still hopping,however, lots of traffic and pedestrians still going ay in at 10;30. Good night.
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