Korea

Yohan met us at the airport, and brought us in to our hotel via the subway, which is typical of Asian public transport, about ten times as good as ours!
Soon afterwards, we commenced the first of what has turned out to be almost continuous meals, this was tea and traditional sweets, very nice.
Some of the most common Korean foods which we were quickly introduced to are kimchee, (the well known fermented cabbage), bibimbap, (vegetables in a hot pot on a bed of rice), jeon, (vegetable or seafood pancake), and many types of noodle. 

Most food venues have an assortment of side dishes, which on their own are sometimes filling enough to be the whole meal.

I've eaten quite a bit of meat, which is hard to avoid as it's so popular, as well as seafood.

Seoul has it's share of historic buildings, and we visited one fairly close to our hotel, Changdeokgung Palace,

I believe there are four similar palaces. 

After several days in Seoul, we came down to Busan, Yohan's home town by the very comfortable KTX train, and met her family and bridesmaid Henna. We had dinner at an upmarket Korean restaurant with them, and later Elna joined us, with Michael who met her in Seoul and brought her to Busan by a later train.
We experienced the Korean baths, where I wandered around naked with Michael and about a hundred other chaps, (no pictures), except this one from our hotel window,

which shows the Busan skyline, on a rainy day, with the spa water being captured from its artesian source, in the building next door.
Hannelore and the ladies have been to the traditional costumes store to select their wedding rigs, and we are now looking forward to a trip to the holiday island of Jeju, then meeting Vic, Jess and Alex in Busan, then finally the wedding.