All work an no play makes Jane a dull girl, so I’ve come up with lots of K’s to tell you more about my life in So. Korea. On Saturdays and Sundays we go into Seoul, which is about an hour bus ride to the north. Seoul is a very modern, upscale place, however, if you look you can find remnants of earlier days.
One of the places we visited is the Changdeokgung palace, which is in the midst of the modern city. It was first built in 1405 during the early Joseon dynasty. It was the residence of the last members of the royal family. The end of that line came with the invasion of the Japanese in 1911. The change in the city in less than one hundred years is astounding.
