Museum Day

Recently Shin (a good CA-native friend of mine here in Korea) and I had a week off from work and were actually in Korea to enjoy it. Not wanting to stray too far from the Seoul Metropolitan area, we decided to head just north to an area called Haewha. Known as a young, quaint, and artsy theater district....Shin and I decided to check out its few museums. With open minds and a small amount of Won, we charged it. Little did we know, we would soon encounter utter disappointment.

The day started out nice. We made a small hike to a mountain-top park. The views were sweet, despite the heavy blanket of haze.



Namsan Tower in the distance.



Some art.


Throwback to SF streets

Now, I know that it's going to sound like a bad idea right off the bat but our first museum stop was the world's only lock museum (as in "lock your door" or "lock up the ancient fortress dynasty gate").
Armed with an open mind (REALLY open) and a free brochure, we entered.
We soon exited with the knowledge that: No matter how old the lock is, it's still not that impressive.
You can see how excited Shin is to be in the presence of the locks.
Needless to say, we passed on the "I Survived the Haewha Lock Museum" t-shirts on the way out.


In order to counteract our previous museum experience, we decided to head toward the Robot Museum. I don't care who you are, that never sounds like a bad idea.....Plus, futuristic artificial beings sound incredible after having spent the last 45 minutes in the 12th century looking at skeleton keys. But disappointment struck again; this time, maybe harder considering the high hopes.
The museum consisted of any TOY that ever even came close to resembling a robot.
This is a picture of Shin as a victim of false advertisement.

Two things to note:
1. Seeing the Schlitz robot did dry up a few tears for me. Beer and robots together are pretty cool.
2. Apparently, Superman is a robot.

It was nice to finally see Robo-Raptor get the credit he deserves. For any Fell St. frequenters, you know that this guy did a lot for the household and the community. He may have even walked you home at some point.