After a lovely week with my parents in Gwangju, we headed up to Seoul on Friday night to spend the night and some of Saturday there before our departure for China. For Cam and I, it was a perfect opportunity to return to Gyeongbokgung Palace, this time with more bearable weather. For my parents, it was an opportunity for them to witness a cultural perspective of Korea. Gyeongbokgung is perhaps one of the best remaining cultural relics of Korea's history. That being said, the palace as it stands today, as previously mentioned, is only a small fraction of what it once was. 

     The trip to the palace was preceded by an interesting Friday night. Our train tickets purchased by a Korean friend, turned out to be valid for Wednesday, not Friday. Although they wanted us to pay for new tickets, eventually we managed to get them to let us simply ride the train on the platform in between the cars next to the bathrooms free of charge.  We capped off our night by staying in a seedy love motel, a Korean travel must.

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