Welcome to Korea...or Yong-in, Jukjeon.

We are safe, sound and happy here in Korea. Our flights were uneventful and easy going. Our first few days have been filled with trying to gain some bearings of where we are. So far, everyone at school and on the street have been very helpful and kind to us. Not many people speak English in our neighborhood and we have yet to see another whitey. We are pretty far south of Seoul in a new suburb called Yong-in Juekjon. It's very nice and quite calm. Our apartment is absolutely wonderful and much larger than our last place. It's so hightech that we don't know we are doing. There are cameras at the door so that we can see who's knocking, there are dimmed lights with a remote control, a special Kimche refrigerator, an oven (aparrently rare), a washer and dryer, dishwasher, sanitizer (have no idea what it is), a bidet in the toilet, two bathrooms- one with a tub, tons of storage, A/C, and we are on the 17th floor so the view isn't bad. We have yet to make it up to the city of Seoul, but plan to this weekend. There is a sub station a few blocks from our place--it's the last stop on the Bundang Line. All the new teachers are very nice, too, which helps enormously. So, it's a little late at night, so I'll just attach a couple of pics to help and we will elaborate later.


Here's Jen at school.

Here's the view from the roof of our apartment.

Here's an area near downtown.

Here's a Temple in a market called Insa-dong.

This is a restored river that runs through downtown.

How lucky are we? I don't even want to say...