Well, this is likely to be short, got to meet the group soon and yesterday was largely a travel day. We left Gyeongju and took a tour of the Hyundai shipyard. Pretty much a bus ride within the complex. It's the biggest one in the world. Korea is far and away the world's biggest ship builder. Anyway, huge buildings that are really just cranes with roofs lifting a moving sheets of steel to be welded into components for sections that are welded together until it's a ship. THe scale of everything is what does it. The actual building looks pretty straightforward, but everything is so big and heavy. Some 40,ooo people work here in Hyundai city, and they build 100 ships annually.
After that we went to the Korean version of a super Walmart called Lotte Mart. It had interesting architure. 4 levels, groceries on floor 1 then more stuff going up. But each level had it's own parking lot, as you could use ethe parking garage to access any floor. Further, they had huge ramp like escalators that allowed you to take your shopping cart to the various levels. The shopping carts had special wheels that dropped into the ramp grooves and made a brake so that the carts were always stable on the escaltor ramp. That was the best part, I definitely should have been an engineer, this is the type of stuff that catches my interest.
Another tomb made the list of stops, this one a bit different from the others, but mostly becasue of it's rural location and the fact that it still had it's statuary.
Best part of the day, or at lest the most memorable, was beer and bulgogi in a small shop at the end of an alley behind the hotel. It was a point and nod meal. Bulgogi here was fish spam, partially cooked mega noodles in a type of barbecue sausce. It was much better than it sounds, and it was 6000 won for the whole deal, 3000 apiece.
Last day tomorrow, flight out Wed. AM.
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