We look into Korea's past and future (and Chinatown)

On Tuesday, our optional activity was to take a trip to Incheon to visit Chinatown, the Korean War museum, and then tour a building dedicated to the plans for Korea's new International City in Incheon, New Songdo.  I'm not sure why we went to Chinatown while in Korea, but we ate there and it was good (not that any of the food I have had here is bad lol), so i'm not complaining.

Upon arriving at the Korean War museum we first looked at the Incheon Landing Memorial (see pictures to come).before going inside, we were told we had 10 minutes to just chill out before actually going into the museum.  On a whim, several of us decided to climb a large hill with what looked like a boat at the top, though it felt like a mountain as we ran up.  The view was awesome, so we weren't complaining going down, though we were a couple minutes late to the film.  It was about the war as a whole and the countries involved.  I did not know much about the Korean War before - only what I had learned in US History - so the film was quite enlightening.  The TaLKees then took a tour of the museum itself.  Afterwards we had a little free time until the second TaLK tour was finishing up, so I went to a street vendor and got some Odeng.  It is kind of like fish on a stick, but better than it sounds.  I had had Odeng once before, when UT's KUSA chapter had sold it the week before I came to Korea.  Naturally, the one I had here was better (Sorry KUSA!).

Leaving the museum, we went to see the plans for the new city within Incheon, which will actually have three parts.  Around this area, probably because the construction has already begun on the new city, the buildings look really futuristic.  The scale model of the new cities are filled with buildings like these, and everything is supposed to be done by 2020 in various stages, ending with the opening of a new theme park, Robot Land.  If everything goes according to plan, then the city will truly be a sight to see.

While here, we watched both a 4D and 5D movie.  for the 4D movie, I was sitting in the front row, so it hurt my eyes a bit, but it was still interesting.  I'm not quite sure what the fourth dimension was but the three dimensions that i know seemed pretty sweet.  The 5D movie was similar, but we were in a circular room and the screen was all along the walls, even on the back of the doors.  Here we took a 'Like a G6' picture, which is currently my profile picture.  By this time I knew That I was in the sixth of six groups for the duration of orientation, so for me, everything was 'like a G6'.  As it happens, only two people in this picture are actually in Group 6.  but those are only details right?

A picture I managed to get a from a friend.  Yay first picture!