Mr. Lee

Guess what we had for breakfast today? Octopus pieces & Seaweed Soup! Not exactly your typical Canadian breakfast but we like it (sort of) !

Later this day, I went shopping with Kelly. I was feeling really out of it with how dressed up women are here in Korea so I felt I needed to buy some "asian" shoes and skirts, etc. Plus I was really tired of museums ! so Bill went to the museum with Mr. Lee. He's someone we met previously in Korea and has visited us in Canada.

Mr. Lee has a really interesting and difficult past. He was born in North Korea before the Korean war. He said he doesn't know how he survived it as he remembers being so hungry and eating dirt and animal dung (nasty) to survive. His family left in a truck with the Americans to South Korea. He's really thankful for the good life he has now.

One funny story about Mr. Lee's experience in Canada is that he saw the sign "Subway" and he naturally assumed, as a Korean, that meant there was a subway train like in Korea (there's a huge subway system here and we've ridden it for hours in the time we've been here). He asked where is the subway and a lady directed him to it. He went in and there was a restaurant but no subway! He went back and asked again where is the subway, as in train. The lady started laughing hysterically as he saw the sign for "Subway" the restaurant and he was in Kelowna (where there is definitely no subway train system only "Subway" the restaurant). I thought that was really cute.

Later that day, we went by subway to Mr. Lee's town which is right by the Yellow Sea where you can take a ferry over to China. We went to a monument dedicated to a Korean war hero. His name was Yi Sun Shen and he was a navy admiral that headed up the building of a kind of armoured ship (turtle boats). He was the leader of many victories over Japanese invasions in the late 1500's.