February 20
After breakfast
we went to Master Sang Ki Lee's gym to work on our Hapkido. Since he was still recovering, one of his assistants taught us. We worked on break falling, rolling and several techniques. It was alot of technique in a short amount of time.
Following Hapkido, we went to the Korean Folk Village. Walked around there for a while and watched a couple demonstrations of drummers, ribbons and "teeter-totter acrobatics". Yeah, I invented that last term. Take a teeter totter and have 2 people, 1 on each end, jumping up and down while launching the other in the air. Once in the air, they do some "moves" and then come back down launching the other. Going up looks fun, coming down...not so fun. Check out the video section and see what I'm talking about.
This brings us to dinner time. Tonight we would be feasting on a Chinese 7 course meal. Chinese food in Korea is much better quality than we're used to here. Apparently Chinese food is more of an upper level cuisine in Korea. It was here that we tried the Bakal (not sure how to spell it since the bottle is in Chinese). GM Yun said it the world's strongest whiskey and is 56% alcohol. To drink, you take a shot, swallow and immediately exhale and make an "Ahhh" sound. It burns much less this way. We had some onions chips drizzled in vinegar and dipped in black bean paste. Actually wasn't too bad. We also had yellow korean radish, crap soup, chicken, pork, real spicy squid soup with spaghetti in it and for desert we ate oranges.
Since we were in private room, there just happened to be a karaoke machine in there. Sure enough, everyone had to do a song solo. It was pretty good seeing everyone give it their all.
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