China/Korea 2009: days 20-22 (Seoul)

Seoul days 3-5: Saturday, Sunday, Monday 10/17-19/09
Here are the photos from Saturday, Sunday, and Monday

Took a bus back from Daejeon to the Seoul airport on Saturday morning, then caught the train back into the center of town. I checked in at another Ibis Hotel (a sister property to the one I had stayed in the previous weekend) and went back out to the Namdaemun Market. I love local markets and seeing how similar and different they are from what I'm used to. I didn't really have much on my list of things to do for the weekend except enjoy it.

China/Korea 2009: days 15-19 (Daejeon)

Daejeon days 1-5: Monday 10/12/09 to Friday 10/16/09
Here are the photos from this week at the conference in Daejeon (10/12 and 10/13-16)

This week was spent at the 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), venturing out only at night for dinner. I stayed at the 007 Hotel, whose neon sign was the James Bond 007 logo.

China/Korea 2009: day 14 (Seoul/DMZ/Daejeon)

Seoul day 2: Sunday 10/11/09
Map of my Seoul and DMZ stops, this day in blue; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 13 (Seoul)

Seoul day 1: Saturday 10/10/09
Map of my Seoul stops, this day in blue; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 12 (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong day 3: Friday 10/9/09
Map of my Hong Kong stops, this day in purple; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 11 (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong day 3: Thursday 10/8/09
Map of my Hong Kong stops, this day in green; no photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

I lost my camera at the end of this day, so I'm going by memory, pamphlets, and limited notes on my iPod since I don't have my photos with their time stamps. 

China/Korea 2009: day 10 (Hong Kong & Macau)

Hong Kong & Macau day 3: Wednesday 10/7/09
Map of my Hong Kong stops and my Macau stops, this day in yellow; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 9 (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong day 2: Tuesday 10/6/09
Map of my Hong Kong stops, this day in red; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 8 (Hong Kong)

Hong Kong day 1: Monday 10/5/09
Map of my Hong Kong stops, this day in blue; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

Early but uneventful cab to the airport for uneventful flight to Hong Kong.

China/Korea 2009: day 7 (Beijing)

Beijing day 4: Saturday 10/4/09
Map of my Beijing stops, this day in purple; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 6 (Beijing)

Beijing day 2: Saturday 10/3/09
Map of my Beijing stops, this day in magenta; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 5 (Beijing)

Beijing day 2: Friday 10/2/09
Map of my Beijing stops, this day in cyan; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 4 (Beijing)

Beijing day 1: Thursday 10/1/09

Map of my Beijing stops, this day in green; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 3 (Shanghai)

Shanghai day 3: Wednesday 9/30/09
Map of my Shanghai stops, this day in yellow; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 2 (Shanghai)

Shanghai day 2: Tuesday 9/29/09
Map of my Shanghai stops, this day in red; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 1 (Shanghai)

Shanghai day 1: Monday, 9/28/09

Map of my Shanghai stops, this day in blue; here are the photos from today. Yellow highlights in the text correspond to flags on the map.

China/Korea 2009: day 0 (Houston to Seoul to Shanghai)

Here's my map for 3 days in Shanghai: blue for day 1, red for day 2, and yellow for day 3.Mostly written as sentence fragments in a Notes file on my iPod Touch, not so narrative yet.

China/Korea 2009: intro

Being an account of my trip to Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Macau, and Seoul in fall 2009.

In early 2009 I submitted a paper to an aerospace conference in Daejeon, S. Korea to take place in October 2009. Once it was accepted, I decided that since my company was going to send me to east Asia, I may as well take advantage of it and spend a couple weeks in China as a tourist. I was locked in to whatever my company gave me for the flight from Houston to Seoul, and from there I was on my own. For budgetary reasons it was better for me to see Shanghai, then Beijing, then Hong Kong, before going back to Seoul.