三民主義 to the Rescue

WILD DAVID CHEON APPEARED!

Being a tourist is hard work so I decided to take a break from sightseeing today. Harry told me to meet him at Myeong-dong aka 명동 aka 明洞 aka ming2dong4 aka ㄇㄧㄥ2ㄉㄨㄥ4. Whatever. It's basically everything 西門町 + 信義區 + 東區 wants to be (and needs to be) multiplied by a hundred. Equation 1 shows the mathematical relationship that describes this place in Seoul.

(1) 명동 = (西門町 + 信義

區 + 東區)100n, where n ∈ ℝ≥ 0.

This peak really does not do Myeong-dong justice.

Anyhow, we found a pretty good place to eat. Again, the picture does not do what it depicts justice.

As we all know, dessert is the most important meal of the day. 팥빈스 (patbinsu) sounded like a good idea and so we decided to get one of its variants. We popped into the Apple store and did a quick search on Naver and stumbled upon a blog entry of a great 팥빈스 place in the area. However the author said he/she did not know where it was. Great! So we wandered around looking for it. We were totally lost and about ready to backtrack to the subway and start over when the Nationalist Party came to the rescue.

While we were walking through an alley, I looked up and saw a very familiar symbol. I was about to tell Harry about how it reminded me of the Taiwanese flag when I looked down and saw

The place was deserted, devoid of all signs of life. The communists probably raided and killed them all. Damned communists. However some of that 三民主義 mojo must have transfered to us as right when we rounded the corner, we came upon the patbingsu place. Thank you Dr. Sun Yat Sen!

I ended the day early and came longboarded along the Han River, all the while thinking about how the glorious Nationalists gave us ice cream.