3 days in Seoul: Day 2

On Thursday Terri and I went to go visit the Gyeongbokgung Palace. 

My camera battery was nearly dead after we finished our +2 hour visit to the palace, but I guess that's what happens when you take over 200 photographs.

Here are a just a few.

We also ran into some Korean english students who were doing a survey for their homework. They stopped us to ask us a few questions.

After Gyeongbokgung Palace Terri and I went to Insa-dong to do a little souvenir shopping. I found a huge Korean flag for Katie, but then we left it in the hostel so we will have to go back and buy another one.

A few views of the streets of Insa-dong.

Then Terri and I headed to the Seoul Arts Center. (Terri needed to go to the Traditional Music Museum for a college project.) Unfortunately by the time we got there it was closed so we headed back to the hostel to get Katie and go to dinner.

We had to cross a 10-lane road to get to the Arts Center.

The South Koreans are very prepared for a terrorist attack. We found this cabinet filled with gas masks in the subway system, just in case.

Now you may be wondering, "Where was Katie?"
Katie decided to sightsee around the area our hostel was located instead of joining us at the palace.

Here are a few of the pics from her day.

After dinner we went back to the shopping area so Kaite could get some trinkets, but the shops were all closing so we didn't get to do much.

Then we randomly ran into Terri who just happened to stop by Insa-daong.
We all decided since the Insa-dong shopping district was closing that we should head to the Dongdaemun market, which the guide books said was open until 5am. But like Insa-dong, the only places that were still open only sold food and drinks. So after missing out again we decided to head back to the hostel and head off to bed.