I filmed this at the Changwon Convention Center Robots and Artificial Intellegence show. I am impressed with the speed and accuracy of these bots. They appear to be car industry bots, but be set up to build anything.
This guy can play the drums and it appears he plays them on a video game drum set machine in Busan in the Nampodong PIFF district where there is really ultra cool video game arcade.
Raw video footage of a typical intersection in Korea. This is not in a big city, just typical. Traffic is very dangerous as drivers just do anything physically possible as there is no fear of getting pulled over by police. In fact, when a police officer is directing traffic, drivers tend to tell him what to do and often will not stop at his command as I have seen.
Korea has French TGV trains as its' KTX bullet train service. The Koreans bought these from France just a couple years ago. I am watching a KTX train stop and as soon as I follow the tail end, another train on the track 2 feet from me races by me at high speed, almost knocking me off my feet.
An upscale food court in an upscale department store in a more affluent area of Changwon, Korea. The cakes run around US $25 and up. Then I walk over to have lunch at McDonalds. A bit on the slightly sweet side for my Western pallete. Not as savory as I am accustomed to, but a delight.
Today, after having explored the traditional arts of rice cake making (in other video), clay molding, and a short class in a traditional classroom with modern global focus (in other video), we go on a high speed bus ride through a piece of Koreas' great mountainous expanse. Enjoy the adventure as you ride with me in the front seat of an Asian Motors school bus.
I take a walk through Jinju fortress on a nice Spring day in May. This place has a long history of protecting Jinju from Japanese invasions. Korea was invaded many hundreds of times in her history and only a tiny little bit of historic sites and relics remain today. What remains gives us a glimpse of what it was really like before westernization occurred.
I proceed down and escalator in a dark corridor with black lights to one spectacle of a salt water fish aquarium cylindrical in shape. Wondrous fish from the ocean such as the puffer fish swim about. Busan Aquarium is one state of the art facility. This is only one small tank of the several impressive displays they have set up.
During a field trip to explore the traditional arts, we, the English hagwon, pay a visit to a traditional styled one room school house classroom full of antique desks, books, and visual aids. I wish this classroom to be mine due to its' abudnance of visual aids and styling. What a delight. I am sure the kids enjoyed it very much.
While walking down a mountain path, I stumble upon a grave market, but do not know why and what its' significance is. It looks very recent as the mound appeared to be fresh dirt.
I study the place after a ceremony and kids ask me where I am from. In Seoul, much more English is spoken than outside the capital. Notice the huge drum that is symbolic of Korean arts and the dragon tailed multi layered rooftops which are the epitome of what we think of when we think of Asia.
During a field trip to explore the traditional arts, we, the English hagwon pay a visit to a traditional styled school classroom. I wish this classroom to by mine due to its' abudnance of visual aids and styling. What a delight.
This is quite a spectacle to catch when you're in Seoul. It's next to Insadong, the arts district. This is the one place for the arts to come alive before your eyes in Korea. Elsewhere, you can see and study history and experience what westernization is all about in everyday life. I like to take detours away from westernization and every day life as much as possible.
This place is a reconstruction of what life in Korea was like years ago during the Shilla dynasty. The woman posing is a Korean teacher. Yes, most of the young Korea women are thin and beautiful like her. The music is traditional Korean music.
