Mom & Dad Visit Korea! (Part 3)

On Monday, the third day of my parents' visit, we went on the Seoul City Bus Tour. We did a lot of walking and were able to visit a couple of the palaces and go to the Korean War Museum.


I don't know the story behind this statue, but it looks interesting. We saw this as we were walking from the subway station to the bus tour departure point.


Across the street from the departure point, we saw this building that houses something of historical significance. I just wanted to photograph it because of the beautiful painting the structure has on it. This style of building and painting is from Korea's past.


Inside of the first palace we visited was this large statue of a man sitting. Dad and I posed for a picture.


This time mom and I stopped for a picture.






Dad said this place in the photo above resembles the typical kung-fu fight scene from the movies.










The woman in these photos was roaming the palace with 3 photographers. She is wearing a traditional Korean dress. Koreans wear these during certain celebrations. Today happened to be part of the 3 day celebration of Chuseok (Thanksgiving) which is one of the times people wear them. Mostly you will see children wearing them as I think most adults probably don't think it's "cool" anymore.




The people in these photos are playing traditional Korean games. I think the goal of the see-saw looking thing is simply to see how high you can help the other person jump. The goal with the sticks is to throw them into the little metal cylinder.

After this palace, we went to another palace and to the Korean War Museum. I'll cover that in Part 4.