olympic park and the han river

today i ventured out to the site of the 1988 summer olympics. the olympic area is now simply a park. the area also houses an olympic museum with facts about the seoul and other olympic venues. pictured is hodori, the seoul olympics mascot. sein says that hodori was all the rage during the '80s - everyone had hodori stationary, backpacks, tshirts...

i later went to the han river for a boat cruise and to check out views of the city. as my luck would have it on this trip, it was cloudy and overcast today so my views of the city were slightly obstructed. the han river runs right in the middle of the city, dividing seoul in half. it is considered more desirable to reside south of the han river and often koreans, when you first meet them, will ask you which neighborhood you live in to determine whether you live in a desirable (south of the river) location or an undesirable one (north of the river).