il, i, sam....

il, i, sam.... don't bother. am just saying 1, 2, 3.... in korean language. Now Start.

I visited couple of places in Seoul this weekend. It is very good to see places here and it is also a wonderful mental experience for me to see the Korean lifestyle.
Seoul is supposedly a zero crime city. Even when I came back to hotel at 1am in the night, I could see many girls walking alone in the daunted streets. Here people doesn't bother about other people around, they just focus on what they do. Most of the koreans I see in public are couples. They keep on chatting with each other or hugging each other. Noone is going to stare at them. Even people who are alone are not alone. They are always busy with something. Either they read books or talk over phone or listen to music in their mp3 player or play video games or write something.

Me and my colleague went to Seoul's largest buddha temple. This temple has a triad statue of Buddha. And there is a Brahma bell pavilion - this has 4 instruments which are sounded everyday to call beings to hear the words of Buddha. Then we went to North Seoul tower. It is Korea's first integrated communication tower, transmitting TV and radio signals, constructed in 1969. Since 1980 it is opened for public as a recreational/ cultural complex. We were allowed to go till midway of the tower and we could get a good view of the city from there. We used the subway trains and local bus for visiting these places.
We had also been to a market where there are lot of handicraft items sold in streets as well as the shops. It is more like the Indian market.

And Koreans are supposedly the most hardworking of all the countries in the world. I will try to give my thoughts on this after few more weeks.