So I make it into Seoul the city where the university i am attending is a couple of days ago.

I check into the hostel and go out to look for a place to eat dinner.

I walk for about 15 minuets and find that pretty much everything is closed. So after the 15 min, I start to hear music. I walk towards where that was and BAM! I find myself in the middle of an outdoor rock show.

There was a huge stage set up outside this shopping center and there were bands playing!!

A bunch of Koreans were out in front dancing and having a good time. Everyone was soaking wet since there was a hose that everyone used to fill up their waterbottles and just throw at everyone in front of the stage.

My post to bill sums it up

I just got back from an outdoor punk show.. it was sooo awesome. 4 bands, one rock, one ska, one heavy metal, and one really good punk rock band,]

since it was outside, someone got hoses and everyone kept filling up waterbottles andbuckets and drenching everyone. me and two off duty GI:s that i met showed them how an american rock show does it. we got a huge mosh pit going, then circle pits, had some hardcore dancing, and topped it off with some stage dives.

i skanked with sooo many hot chicks it was unbelievable.

haha i took my shirt off after half of the show and since korea is like it is, i had a couple of people come up to me and be like, you naked! and i:m like yeeeeah! then i threw my shirt up and would go start a mosh.

it was tight.

but i ate grinded pig earlier for lunch and that was a bad idea.

the grinded pig was pretty bad too. i:ll never eat that again.


The day after all this rock show madness, I went to a palace in seoul then met a guy when I was taking the subway back home. It just so happened that he is a real estate developer in seoul and we talked for about an hour about real estate and the politics and economics of seoul and korea.

I met him again today and he bought me lunch at this really nice place by my hostel. He used to work at a global company called SK Telecom until he quit and started his real estate company and during his employment at SK, he would often go to Guatemala to meet clients. He has been studying english for many years and graduated at Seoul National University (the top university in Korea) with a Masters in Textile engineering.

I just think it:s really cool that I`ve been able to meet two koreans so far who enjoy talking to me so much that they buy me lunch so that they can talk to me longer.

Haha, I told him some of my windsurfing stories about being in Cape Sand Blas and windsurfing with the stingrays and when I was in Busan and I saw the 4 foot wide jellyfish monster.



Today I went to the electronics market in Yongsan. What did I find there? The worlds largest collection of

#1 PC parts and componets and laptops and custom made video cards (made to your order!) and everything you could think of that relates to a computer including millions of styles of mice

#2 Pirated Dvds. I could not believe how many pirated DVDs there were everywhere in this area. You can pick up 6 for $10.00. It was just crazy. I also found tons of Ps2 games but I couldn:t tell if they were legit or not, but they probably were since I didnt: see to much console modding advertisted (although i could probably find it if I looked)

#3 Display laptops playing obviously pirated/downloaded movies. Every place that had a laptop was playing a movie on it and sure enough, it was obvious that the movies were illegally downloaded haha.

I noticed these two particually;

Rush.Hour.3.PROPER.TELESYNC.XviD-DELAY

and Next.DVDRip.XviD-DoNE

In perfect view above the movie are these filenames...I thought it was pretty amusing.

But after reading some info with a google search *korea piracy* I realized I should have expected it.


Tommrow I get to check into the university. That means no more pillows filled with woodchips (It:s like i`m treated like hobie!)

ps the ` is located in a really wierd place on the keyboard so it comes out as ; a lot