On Saturday, we tried to go to the Seoul Museum of Art. Well, I say 'tried' because we did manage to get there, but only one gallery in at least a ten-gallery museum was open. So we at least got to get our first glimpse at a contemporary Korean artist named Chun Kyung-ja. Most of her paintings were (in my opinion) stereotypical depictions of travel, but her style was amazing and I loved the way she painted snakes (see above). There was a surprising amount of people visiting the museum, considering that most of what there was to see consisted of men sweeping the floor and walls being painted black, but there was also a cafe and a gift shop, both of whch were rather bustling.
On our way back to the subway station, we stopped and got a cup of the cheapest coffee we could find, and we certainly got what we paid for. The cofee was amber and transparent, and tasted of dirt. But the disappointments of the day were somehow made up for by the fact that the streets were actually lined with trees (my God! nature in Seoul! such a novelty), and it was rainy (as it tends to be when we have weekends out) which somehow made the yellowing trees even prettier. And I felt pretty happy anyway, because I was wearing jeans for the first time in a week.
We did some more exploring in our neighborhood, and found a really cool market nearby that sells fruits, vegetables, fresh fish, packaged goods, and pig heads.
Wait. What?
Pig heads.
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