Gwanghwamun is right in the heart of downtown Seoul. I suppose it's the administrative/arts sector. On one side is the US embassy, which sadly looks like a friggin military bunker, and on the other is the Seoul Arts Hall. I have no idea what the purpose of the arts hall actually is. I've been several times and events are either private or being held at the other Seoul Arts Hall in Gangnam. I think it's just a stellar building that high rollers can be brought to so Korea can show off, kinda like they do in Pyongyang. Anywho, between these buildings is an open area that featured the snowboarding qualifications for the winter olympics. that was pretty awesome even if it was impossible to actually get close enough to get a decent view. p.s. i actually took that badass picture.
The next awesome thing was definitely the Ice skating. basically they froze over the entire pavillion and allowed people to skate around it. Tickets and rentals together only cost 1,000 won and covered an hours worth of skating. it was both cute and hilarious to watch the uber concious koreans desperately trying to look cool. most of them had never skated before and simply walk-skated along the ice. A few of them, mostly the younger kids, were actually pretty awesome and were racing around annoying everyone with their awesomeness. I worked as hard as I could to capture a video of someone wiping out but a watched pot never boils, and koreans never do windmill falls when they sense someone is watching. We had a lot of fun though and i just wish it was closer cause I would totally go again! p.s. i definitely did not take this CG picture.Oh i did take some video of the iceskating though. This one is just of ice skating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlFJYStF7xk. and this one is of an old skating master I followed around for much of the night. He would even raise his leg as if he was about to pull a jump and then he'd pause, seem to remember his age, and think better of it. Talented and wise! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzSBvhQNJ0A. enjoy :)
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