sun and heat cook our brains

Anyung Haseo!

I have made a very important discovery. I have discovered why Asians are shorter than westerners! (Although Koreans are the tallest of the Asian nationalities - but don't let any facts get in the way of my story.) They live all stacked up on top of each other. So if you are unlucky enough to live on any of the lower levels, you will get all squished down. Simple.

This is picture of a housing development that seems fairly typical all around Seoul. There must be at least a couple of hundred of these buildings in this one development. (Don't come home drunk!) I count thirty stories in each building. According to wikipedia Seoul has a population of over 10 million people. There are over 44,000 people per square mile living in the City - an area approximately similar to Miami-Dade County. The buildings around the area where I took this picture all seem fairly new. This is Songpa Gu (Gu means district) and this area is where the Olympic village was when Seoul hosted the Summer Olympics in 1988. To the left of where I stood to take this picture is Olympic Park (Haven't been there yet - plan to today) and to my right about a mile away are all of the sporting venues that were built for the games. This development is on my walk from the subway station to the Asan Medical Center where Andrew is.

I might take a subway further out into the City later today to check out some ancient Korean sights, so, stay tuned, tomorrow, or yesterday, or whenever.

Love to all form beautiful, crowded Seoul! Hey, who farted?

PS: I was watching one of the Enlish braodcasts on TV - like the Discovery Channel, and there was a story about how the Chinese were actually the first to sail across the Pacific Ocean to discover America. Who knew?