Gyung Bok Goong

Gyung Bok Goong is a palace grounds in midtown Seoul that they’ve preserved quite well over the centuries. It’s not nearly on the scale of Forbidden City in Beijing, but it’s still very beautiful. Buses and buses of Chinese, Japanese, and S.E. Asian tourists were rolling in all day, even on a drizzly day.

Officials, nobles and servants would line up before the king by rank at these stone markers.

Some more pics:

These school kids were on a field trip, posing and giggling with their camera. So cute.

I thought this dude was rockin’ it, just outside the palace on the streets. 

But he was no match for these twin-turbo Chinese tourists checking out the palace. I was powerless against their charms.

And now, some deep thoughts. I think Koreans rule at short track speed skating because they have been working their thighs doing the squat all their life.

No matter how dilapidated the home, gotta haves me the HD.