So Thursday night some of the students from the dorms took me to a Korean style spa. Don told me the name of it but I forgot. Anyway, it reminded of a Japanese Onsen. It had the very hot tub of water, the very cold tub of water, jet massagers, and many different saunas. The biggest difference with this place was when you got done with all that stuff you take a shower and put on these clothes they let you borrow and go to this large room where we met up with the girls that came with us. This large room had televisions, more saunas, and a snack bar. It even had these rooms were people sleep in these large cubby holes. We stayed up for a little bit and ate and played games. Afterwards we went to the “cubby hole” room and slept till the next morning. We got up around 6:00 and headed back to the school.Later that evening Sang from Hanmee Church of Christ came by the school and showed Don Kinder and I around town. First we went to one of the Palaces here in Seoul. It wasn’t one of the best ones here but it was just as impressive. Afterwards we went to a place called the Korean House and then we ate at this pork cutlet place. Down the street from the restaurant we ate at was the cable car to take us up to the N Seoul Tower. From the top of this tower we were able to see the whole city of Seoul. It was pretty nice. We stayed up there till it got pretty dark so we could see how the city looked when it was light up. Surrounding the deck at the base of the tower was a fence full of pad locks. Sang told us that the pad locks was a new tradition among the new generation. When a new couple is about to marry they connect two padlocks to the fence to represent their lives together forever. Ironically, there was sign that said, “Don’t lose your key.” I thought that was pretty funny. Before we left we watched a band sing a couple of songs and then we headed back to the school.
While we were at the top of tower waiting for it to turn dark, Sang told us his story of how he ended up in Seoul. It was a story of struggle and poverty. As a young man, his dad sent him to the city with what is the equivalent of three dollars for a better life. It’s amazing to see how God has brought him from being a poor farmer in rural Korea to being a hard worker in God’s Kingdom.
