This Past Saturday: First, We went to Yongsan

This past Saturday, we traveled into Seoul and walked around for seven hours. It was amazing. Seoul was packed in the market areas, but in other areas there weren't many people. It's a beautiful city.

First, we went to Yongsan, which is an area that sells a bunch of electronics. There is something like 5000 electronics stores in 21 buildings. They are everywhere. In the main building of the district, an old bus station, there are many booths like a flea market, except they are all lit up with lights and they are selling electronics. We still had trouble, however, finding what we were looking for. In Korea, all interaction with people is like a puzzle game, unless you find someone who speaks English well. We did find someone that spoke english and he directed us to another building, where he said we could find power transformers. He told us the voltage too, which I had forgotten to look up. So, we walked across a parking lot and went to another building. This one had shops lined up along the wall of the building, like a strip mall, except the shops had no doors and they were very small and congested. They were packed with stuff. We went into one, which always takes courage, talked with the guy a bit, that is, I kept repeating "transformer," and he soon went back into his shop and picked up just what we were looking for.