I spend past 5 days in Seoul in South Korea. This was the first visit in 10 years.
My walks and visits in Seoul included:
(1) A walk along Cheonggyecheon, an eco-friend riverside walkway in downtown Seoul renewed in 2005.
(2) Visits of historical places including Jongmyo, Changdeokgung (these two are the world heritages) , Changgyeonggung, Gyeongbokgung, and Deoksungung.
(3) Walks around downtown areas including Myeong-dong, the busies area in the city.
(4) Visits of markets and shopping centers including Namdaemun Market and Dongdaemun Market.
(5) Walks around Yeouido, Korea’s financial and political center on an artificial island in the Han-gang river.
As this blog is Grassman’s “Tokyo Walk”, I write some impressions from my Seoul walk comparing with Tokyo. Seoul has become cleaner and more sophisticated city in the last 10 years. The buildings are newer in Seoul than in Tokyo. People’s moves have become slower than 10 years ago, which gave me the impression that the country has been matured.
Both cities are similar in many points in global viewpoint. So are both citizens.
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