HHI

The club night at the hotel went well, though we all agreed that the DJ seemed to have ADD, as he would only get maybe halfway through a song before switching over to a new one.  And he also liked to stop the music to shout out things, but he only spoke Korean, so when he did this, half of the dancefloor would just stop moving out of confusion.

Yesterday we briefly visited HHI - Hyundai Heavy Industries.  This was mainly the shipbuilding division of Hyundai, and we were given a very scripted tour of the area and told not to take any pictures.  It was interesting to learn about the founder of Hyundai, but the whole thing was so Stepford: "Here are his shoes, which he wore for 30 years because he believed in being frugal," "Hyundai cares about its workers," etc, that it was hard not to believe some deep dark secret was lurking underneath it all.  But maybe I'm reading too much into all that.

That was followed by an unending bus ride back to SWU, with lunch at a rest stop.  I ate something called a "pizza hot dog" because I had heard there wasn't actually a hot dog in it - there wasn't any pizza either, it just tasted like a blob of BBQ sauce that was battered and deep fried.  Strange, but I was hungry.  Luckily for dinner we had actual pizza from Korean Dominos, so that was enjoyable.

All my clothes smell are gross right now, because though my wash from about a week ago is dry now, it took far to long to dry and had time to get funky.  I don't really know how to avoid this problem, because everyone says the dryer in the wash room doesn't really work and the laundry soap provided is unscented.  Maybe I should spray everything with perfume after I get it out of the wash and before I hang it up to dry?

Today we are to learn Taekwondo, though we only have about a 2-hour lesson, so I'm not sure how much knowledge we'll gain in that limited timeframe.  We're also watching a Korean movie this afternoon called JSA: Joint Security Area.  The writeup sounds interesting, but at the moment I'm not even sure if it's in Korean or English, which may or may not make things a bit confusing, as I've found that a lot tends to get lost in translation through subtitles.