After our
strenuous hike we tried to start Saturday easily. Giving Jamsil a peak which is
famous for its huge indoor and outdoor amusement park Lotte World. Lotte is
another one of the Korean huge, omnipresent companies (chaebols like Samsung,
LG and Hyundai). Most people start to notice the Lotte department stores with
different branches and cinemas, then maybe you notice that there is food
branded with Lotte and a fastfood chain named Lotteria. But more over you can
find Lotte hotels, a building company, an insurance company, an chemical
company and even a baseball team named Lotte Giants. (And if you wonder, according to the myth, the founder liked the German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.)
After a
coffee break at the lake around Lotte World we decided to go on a on an off bus
around the city. It took us 45 minutes to get to the other side of downtown
Seoul and missed the bus for seconds. Sometimes the punctuality of the Koreans
and especially the Korean Transportation System is a little uncanny. The
underground is so punctual the app runs without wifi and without any variance.
But even the transport that is dependent on the traffic can keep with that. When
we took the last tour bus an hour later he ended his tour just in time after exactly
90 minutes and through the dense traffic.
The
panoramic tour took us up to Namsan park the hill in the middle of Seoul, back
to the Han River and along the riverside park which was packed with people and
tents but missing some greenery. I hope that will flourish within the next
weeks. Back in town we passed the buzzing district around the Hongik University
and ended at the Gwanghwamun Station.
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