First May in Seoul

Hi!

Many people asked us to create a blog, and this is my first try. 

Let's see if I can make this blog working! 

Few days after we arrived in Seoul, at the end of April, Till came from his tour around Eastern Asia to visit us! We really did not know what to do, where to go, and we were jet-lagged. So, we just started to hang around. It turned out that, we did not think about it, it was the first May, which is actually not so different from 1 May in Europe. So, open air concerts (there was one in this square of the photo here down, but we just missed it!) and, of course, demonstrations around the city. But honestly what impressed us were not so much the demonstrations as the amount of police around the streets of the centre of Seoul! So here follow some photos of the day, 

and some more relaxed photos of our evening, downtown.   

This was the square where the concert was. For the "unexperienced" of Seoul you can notice the contrast between the terrific "Soviet style" building and the temple just on its side... That happens everywhere around the city. 

same square. The tower on the back is one of the symbols of the city, and is of course called "Seoul Tower". It is really a nice place to go, on top of a little mount called Namsan, right in the middle of the city, there is the best view and also the museum of teddy bears! 

Dorothea had a cold that day... and she wanted to experiments some local wears... although we found out later that here they use masks mostly in Spring because of the dust brought by the winds from Asia.

Here they will build a new giant architectural futuristic Plaza, after a project of the Archistar Zaha Hadid  

yes, the channels are not the nicest places in the city, but they are a nice break between the palaces...

and here the police! ... notice the never ending line of policemen... I just could not make a photo with all of them!

another view from the other side of the street

and that is the corner from the top... but it is hard to see the police, it is on the bottom left... we were very high

Dorothea could make a nice photo with the light in the background... please, don't look at my nose!

Finally by night Marlen had some fun jumping over some more modest piece of local architecture 

and a nice korean robot, seemingly similar to the one of the Wizard of Oz, gave us the good night!