First morning in Seoul...now where are we?

As Joo Won Park illustrates, "The Gator Nation" reaches Seoul, Korea!

A typical side street in Seoul

Joo Won Park and Sain during a typical Korean BBQ lunch

A wonderful traditional Korean lunch was hosted for the Nong visiting composers and performers by the KNUA university president

Getting around Seoul by subway is very inexpensive and efficient
photo by Joo Won Park

Boaz Sharon tries Korean SoJoo

The sign says it all...we say "noh" (Joo Won modeling)

Now, that sounds like a yummie culinary experience!

Tim Reed prepares for his rehearsal at the KNUA Hall

Closing of the gate and changing of the guard at Gyeonhbokgung Palace

Joo Won and Tim Reed in front of the Emperor's Throne Room at Gyeonhbokgung Palace

The group at Gyeonhbokgung
photo by Joo Won Park

UF ambassadors gather in front of the KUNA Hall during the Nong Festival (l-r, Reed, Sharon, Park and Sain)

Sain performing with KNUA flutist, Shin Ae Park
photo by Joo Won Park

My birth year calendar animal - the pig

Mmmmm, deep-fried silkworm pupae - called "bundaegi" in Korean

Sain tries to get Sharon to try the bundaegi

Sain and Sharon enjoy Korean-style Indian food

And you think parking in the UF garages is difficult!

Joo Won enjoying a dried anchovy

Nong participating composers gather after the last concert of the festival; Composers representing Korea, China, Germany, Taiwan and the USA participated this year

My first meal in Korea with one of my hosts, Jaeho Chang (left)

First of two photos of the Concert Hall at the Korean National University of Arts [KNUA]

Second photo of the Concert Hall at the Korean National University of Arts [KNUA]

Seoul Metro station near my hotel

Recording on the Seoul Metro

Recording in a station market at a Seoul Metro station

A traditional dinner with KNUA faculty and guests for the "Nong" festival of contemporary music

Impromptu "Korean-style" Chinese dinner with the students in the KNUA computer music studio

Former UF exchange student Sa Woo Lee and I at the Korean National Museum for Traditional Performance

A traditional Korean drum at the Korean National Museum for Traditional Performance

Me outside the gates of Gyeonhbokgung - Korean Royal Palace in Seoul

The reconstruction of the garden house at Gyeonhbokgung; much of the original palace was destroyed
by the Japanese during their occupation of Korea

One of the many gates around Gyeonhbokgung

Instead of "exit" or the simple "out," this sign not only explains how to leave
and comments on the wonderful land called Korea...truly way out!

This is a display of a traditional scholar's room at the Korean National History Museum

A statue for good luck at the entrance to Insadong, an area of Seoul known for its traditional Korean arts and crafts

A collection of traditional hand made masks at a store in Insadong

Joo Chan Park and I at a teahouse in Insadong (I didn't taste all "five flavors")

Students Takaaki Sai and Yumi Nakamura with Prof. Shin Sato (l-r), from the Tokyo National University of fine Arts and Music, and I after a wonderful Korean BBQ dinner

Before the meal at wonderful sushi restaurant in Seoul (yes, that is a conveyor belt with marvelous culinary creations)

After the meal at a wonderful sushi restaurant in Seoul

So, if you want to figure out the tab for the above collection of plate check out the menu (thanks Mr. Park!)

Here's the map of the Seoul Subway - now try and find your way around that spider web!

All right, does this strike anyone as rather funny?
(found this at the COEX Mall in Seoul)