Thursday, April 12, 2012

Thursday, April 5

Again, apologies for the blank spot in our blog. This will hopefully capture part of the time we've not yest described.

On April 5 we drove to the Hyundai Oilbank refinery, about 30 minutes west of Saesan. The refinery is part of the Hyundai corporate empire, which includes the auto maker. We took a bus tour of the refinery, which imports crude oil and makes gasoline, propane and other oil products. The bus was very elaborate, with curtains, particularly nice seats, etc.  We lunched at the Hyundai plant, again a very elaborate affair.  The lunch was delicious.

In the afternoon, we visited a Chonan empire fortress and building complex.  The complex at various times housed the local government, served as a fortress protecting the ruling government, and more. Korea was overrun by the Chinese and Japanese at various times through the centuries.

We finished with a Korean dinner.  We seem to be pretty comfortable with Korean food at this point.

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