We began our day with a short one hour bus ride to Ul San where we visited the POSCO steel plant. It's funny how sometimes small events are an indecation of what the rest of the day will bring, the reason I say this is that morning on the bus it was really cold and I had the bright idea to ask the bus driver to turn on the heat. Korean buses work a little different than American buses, in short the heat was on full blast for the entire hour long bus ride to Ul San and everbody was staring at me pissed off. Well how that connects to the rest of the day, we were visiting the World's third largest producer of steel, and if you don't know anything about steel let me help you, it's very hot. Aside from the high tempretures the plant was really amazing, for instance South Korea has relatively no raw materials so all of the materials have to be brought in from ohter countries. The plant is basically a small GREEN city, the are very big on taking care of the environment. The company is also filthy rich cause on the loaction of the steel plant I guess they got bored and decided to build a Soccer stadium. At any rate the steel plant was very nice and after we left the took us for another authentic meal at the Pizza Hutt,(finally home cooking).
After Pizza hut we traveled up into the mountians to visit the birth place of Korean Buhdism. There was a bit of a walk, but it was well worth it. The view from the mountian was amazing, and in the mountian the Korean's had carved out a huge cave with a what had to be a 20 foot Buhda statue.
We concluded the evening with lounge singing in the Hilton hotel lobby, where we sipped on some local favorite cocktails.
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