First up: The National Museum of Korea
Where: Yongsan: Line 1
The National Museum offers free admission to its main galleries, so Hwayoung, (remembering that I had wanted to visit there), brought me. (She doesn't enjoy history as much as I do and was easily bored).
The exhibits were nice, and we were brought around by a volunteer tour guide that explained some of the exhibits in more detail. More of which you can read about here and here.
Here are some photos:
Ten-story Pagoda from Gyeongcheonsa Temple, Goryeo: 1348
Amitabha Buddha from Gamsansa Temple
Ritual Ewer (Kundika)
Secondly: We also visited the Noryangjin Fish Market (노량진수산시장)
Where: Noryangjin-dong in Dongjak-gu:
Line 1
The market is a massive farmers market where you can purchase and haggle for all sorts of seafood from clams, oysters, shrimp, and tuna - to king crab, sea cucumbers, lobster, and red snapper.
Our friend Melissa joined us to peruse the aisles and we settled on some shrimp and a rather large king crab. It wasn't exactly cheap - but it was fresh and delicious.
This is only about 1/10th of the market.
Picking our our King Crab
After you select your food, you can have it cooked for a small fee in the restaurants located above the market.
Our shrimp
Our King Crab
aShe had many eggs on her.
It's nasty looking if you ask me...or Melissa..
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