We arrived in Korea at the tail-end of World Cup madness. You could feel the excitement in the air as people donned red shirts and devil ears (the Korea team is the Red Devils) and stayed up all night to catch the matches. Ty and I weren't big enough fans to do that, but I guess we caught a bit of the Red Fever because we paid a visit to the 2002 World Cup Stadium, about 8 years late (Tyler: "We showed up to the game and no one was there!").
The stadium was enormous, and nearly completely vacant. We walked down to the field and even got to take pictures on the benches! Then we went below the stadium and saw the locker rooms and the practice room, where we frolicked on the astroturf.
From there we walked to Naeiul Park, called "Sky Park" because it's so high. The park was actually built over a trash dump! It was a beautiful park with lots of tall grasses, zucchini, squash, dragonflies, and the most spectacular view of Seoul and the Han River. The view alone made the hike totally worth it.
Here's where things got rough. We wanted to hit another park close by, but we weren't really sure how to get there. So we trekked on, and on, only to find that the park was nothing special. We could see the river at that point so we thought, why not take a stroll by the river? It was beautiful, no doubt, but we didn't factor in that the river is extremely long and no buses/subways stop close to the river. By this point our bodies were ravaged from hours of walking in the sun and heat. We went the only way we knew, back to the stadium subway station. A tiring day, but nothing gets us down.
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