Korean trip

As you may have read the Shamoopie posts, I went to Korea two weeks ago. The trip was long. Twenty six hours there and twenty two hours back. I was only there for three full days. All in all the trip went well. I gave my talk and then headed right back.

I stayed in Busan in a hotel overlooking the beach. The Paradise Hotel and Casino. Heavy on the casino part. The rooms were large and the service was excellent. They were all very customer friendly. My hotel is the one in the background. It's the best picture that I could get with the name on the hotel. There were many of them up and down the beach. Mine was the only casino.

Looking from my room you could see the workers busily building something on beach down below my room. The building did not look like a permanent structure but it was difficult to tell what it was. They worked on it all week. Even during the large rain storms.

You really couldn't tell what they were building until they finished it,



THE LAST DAY I WAS THERE!
You will never be able to guess what it was.





It was a Dunkin Donuts for a commercial that they were filming the last day that I was there. Apparently Koreans love Dunkin Donuts, KFC, and Baskin-Robbins because there seems to one of each on every street corner. A fake Dunkin Donuts on the beach. I watched them film people in bathing suits carrying surf boards to the water and them put their big coats back on went filming was done. They were dancing on the deck of the shop and yelling. It was very different and quite surreal. I felt like Bill Murray in the movie "Lost in Translation".