The group had a good breakfast of Korean coffee, egg, bread, butter and jams, and cereals. The group also met for the first time Professor Young-hwan Kim, President/Director of the APEC eLearning Program. It is his second term as the head.
Prof Young-hwan is able to express right away informally the intentions of the program. He sounded passionate to this volunteer work and is rich with ideas on identity preservationa and anti-development concepts. (This is the first eLearning encounter.)
The group went to a Catholic church to hear mass, a 5 minute walk from the training center. The mass seemed to take so long. Maybe because all the prayers and songs were in Korean, and the priest had a long homily. Mass attendees wear Sunday dress and the women wear veil. This is another Cul-enc (cultural encounter).
Lunch was in another Korean restaurant. The delegates are now used to leaving their shoes infront of the resto entrance, using low tables and no chair in dining, and lots of side dishes, vegetables and bean-based sauce.
The group took the subway afterwards to head in Lotte dept store and Home Plus.
I had my share of green tea ice cream and Korean bbq. The bbq was tender and worth tasting again.
Going to dept stores along Busan Road after dinner is quite interesting. The Korean salespersons are very corteous, mostly trying their best to communicate. Popular brands I saw--Aasics, Adidas, Nike, Tommy Hilgifer, Elle, Kswiss. ABC Mart has cheap shoes. Art Work has lots of nice items. This store should be recommended to tourists and visitors.
The side streets are filled with good and cheaper items. The mixed rolls in long sticks with hot and spicy dip are also intriguing. I just ate them not knowing what they really are.
Last stop. Starbucks. Tall hot americano is W3800 and Cinnamon roll is W1600. It's good Robbie, Gio and Mars were around to share me company.
No training for the day, just window shopping around. Training will start Monday afternoon.
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