I have a two week class for work in Seoul. Last Saturday, we took the bullet train up to Seoul and have been having a great time in the nation's capital ever since. Seoul has five big palaces left over from its heyday as a kingdom. The Japanese came over every few hundred years to burn them down, but the Koreans keep rebuilding them. Only one is still mostly original from the 1400's, but it is very nice.
The palace complexes are on the edge of the city and framed by some great looking mountains. I could enjoy living there.
The Koreans have a great Changing of the Guard ceremony, but nobody seems content to sit back and watch. Korean and Japanese tourists keep strolling through the ceremony and posing for pictures next to the guards.
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