A Cold Day In Seoul Olympic Park - Gangnam Style At Starfield Coex Mall & Library / HOT Korean Food
Transcript
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Today's adventure
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begins as the recording of this
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Monday, April
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14th, 2025. What the heck is
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this? Welcome everyone out of the Woo
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here. There is I thought that was a
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self-driving Zamboni, but in fact, it's
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not. It's a
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vendor. Got 23 seconds to cross this
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road.
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be going to an underground
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mall and just see what else there is in
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this general vicinity of
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Seoul, South
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Korea. Got my trusty
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umbrella. That is a unique building over
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there. Look at that
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thing. Look at
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that. I'm inviting
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you on a rainy day, rainy, cool, and
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crisp day. Let's get inside.
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and I'm inviting you to join me. It's
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good to have you
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here, shall you? You know, watching Mary
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Poppins so many times throughout my
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youth and in my
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adulthood. Oh, it makes me sad, but
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you're not allowed to fe feed the birds.
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Most cities, you're not you're not
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supposed to feed the birds. Mary Poppins
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would not be not be proud. I am looking
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for the Starfield Coax Mall, which I
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believe is right behind me. Here's a
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Very classic architect, Korean
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architecture here. Love
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it. Before going into that underground
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mall, I'm going to check this
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out. Lombini
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This is
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amazing. Really enjoying my time here so
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far. Really don't have a major game
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plan.
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Each day I kind of just wake up or the
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night
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before come up with an
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idea. But there is no shortage of things
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to see here. That is for certain. This
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reminds me of the
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place yesterday on the tour. Different
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location, but has the beautiful lanterns
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there.
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And as explained yesterday by the guide,
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the lanterns and the festivities
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are for Buddha's
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birthday. I think I remember that
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correctly. Love these these style of
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buildings.
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Big building across the
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way. Believe that is the entrance to the
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underground mall right over there.
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Huge complex it
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appears. In fact, it might not even be
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underground. Maybe it's above ground.
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Either way, it's a huge mall. Check it
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out. Go X Northgate. The layout of the
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land. Quite a few things in here.
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Department store. the Starfield Mall
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15. Okay, you are here. I'm assuming I
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can walk in this building and get over
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into the mall
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area. Also, the Starfield Library, which
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I want to check out. And there's an
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aquarium in here in the first basement
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level. There's also a aquarium in the
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Mall of
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America in Minnesota. Okay, I kind of
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wondered if I was in the right place.
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That answers the question.
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Starfield Coax
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Mall. Going down, down, down. Love the
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vending machines here. Take a look at
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the
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Coca-Cas. They're like long, slender
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bottles of Coca-Cola. Original taste.
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Also known as Coke Classic. This must be
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like a cold coffee there. see a lot of
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vending machines here in
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Korea. And there's the entrance to the
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mall. They are working on building a new
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aquarium
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experience. Evidently owned by the Sea
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Life Corporation. This franchise is
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everywhere. There's Sea Life in Orlando
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also at the Icon
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Park, but they're expanding. capsule
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pang. Just a bunch of vending
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machines. Yeah,
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look. It's just rows of vending
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machines. Pressed butter
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sandwich. Oh, it's a key ring, but it's
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supposed to look like a
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sandwich. See a lot of these as
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well. You get all these little
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figurines.
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Oh, you could even get a little fake
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toad.
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turtle. These are really good size
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little
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characters. It's a pretty expansive
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place, at least on this level. Oh,
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evidently there's multiple floors. 1 F.
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All right, there's 1
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F,
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B1F, and
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B2F. Looks like the most expansive of
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all of them is B1F, which I think is the
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level I'm on. It's 11:36 a.m. right
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now. Here at the Case Gallery is a
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really large Minnie
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Mouse stuffed plush.
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huge Minnie Mouse. I mean, this is a
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cell phone case right there. So, that
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gives us comparison
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here. There's even a little road mark
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down here to know where to walk. Getting
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a fruit smoothie here from Jamba Juice.
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Had one the other day. I feel like
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getting another. Getting a strawberry
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one today. All right. I just took a sip.
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Pretty dang tasty. Real strawberry
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blended here. So nice. Is there anybody
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standing on the the edge here? It's a
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little seating area people are sitting
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at. And then you have a little stage
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down there, little performance stage in
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here. Turns out, not only are these
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little pathways, so nowhere to walk, but
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they're also cushiony. So you have the
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hard floor here, and you got the
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cushioned
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floor
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there. And I guess for mall walkers,
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they have the they have distance
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here. All right. There is a library in
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here. And when I say library, I mean a
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next level freaking library. What the
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heck is this
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reality? I mean, I guess it's a
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bookstore where they call it a library.
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Has a massive Starbucks inside of
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it. Roof is just not open air, but you
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can see up through
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it. Look at all these freaking books up
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here. How do they even reach the top?
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I don't think I've ever seen anything
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quite like this before in all honesty.
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You see, it is in fact a real library.
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Everyone's taking photos. Everyone.
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Definitely cannot never got to run out
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of books in here to read.
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All right. Right across from the library
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is a Panam store. Got to be honest, I
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don't know if I've ever seen a Panama
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store. I've seen some stuff kind of
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floating around online for some of the
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retro panam merch, but they're an actual
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store in the mall that sells all the
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vintage stuff. Panam. I don't even know
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if that's even an airline anymore. I
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don't think it is. The butter shop. I
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see a really large kitty over there.
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Butter general shop. butter
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shop. Supposed to be the mascots there.
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Wow. Milk Cat
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School. Stop in here and see what this
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is all about. The store is absolutely
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super cute. I mean, I just noticed how
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many different mascots and how many
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different, you know, animal figures that
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the all these different companies
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utilize over here. So, like everywhere
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you go, there's like a mascot and this
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place is no exception. Butter family of
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the store butter milk cat school.
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There's just every kind of cute little
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accessory that you could ever think of
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in the form of cats is in here. It's
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like cat cat overload heaven. Stuffed
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cat overload. Plushy cat overload heaven
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here at the Milk Cat School. Butter is
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the name, but I've never heard of the
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company before. I saw one of these on a
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tour the other day. We were driving
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around and I looked out the window and I
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saw saw a store. Maybe when I was
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walking down one of the shopping
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districts. But this is the first time
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I've been in one of these stores to see
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what it really even
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is. Very, very cute. Look at these two
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cats right here holding a number two
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pencil. Milk Cat School for the Butter
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Family. Adorable. All right, back out
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onto Well, not street level yet, but
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trying to open my umbrella up. Here we
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go. Go back outside. Do a little
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exploring out here. My jacket zipped up,
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my beanie on now. Temperature's dropped
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a little
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bit. Interesting design over there for
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the roof of a building.
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Almost looks like one of those like ball
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play areas like an old Mickey D's or
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something. It's almost just the
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roof. Just it's just the art design of
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the the top of the building. Notice over
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here is another one of those smoking
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boxes. There's no one in there at the
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moment, but there's all these little no
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smoking areas. I've also noticed that
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people don't use the no smoking boxes.
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You'll see sometimes in an alley
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somewhere there'll be 5, 10, 12, 15
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people all smoking in an alley, but they
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can't smoke in these areas that are
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designated no smoking areas. And most of
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the places around town in fact are no
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smoking areas. And then they have these
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boxes, but right now no one's utilizing
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the smoking
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box. Kind of a nice vibe walking around
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here on the right. It is not anywhere
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near as cold as it was yesterday.
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Yesterday was wild. Like snow came out
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of
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nowhere. In fact, it's relatively I
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don't want to say warm, but warmer than
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it was yesterday. Okay, this is amazing.
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the hand formation, the hand gesture
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from Gundam Style, the smash hit from
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many years
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ago. And people are lined up. An
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incredible amount of people are lined up
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to do the dance, take the photos in
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front of the gun
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style hand
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pose. Incredible.
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This
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area I guess is where it originated
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where the artist was from perhaps or
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named after this particular area of
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Soul, South Korea.
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Glad every glad moment. Photo
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bling. You go in there, take a You take
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a selfie in there. You take a photo in
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there. It's a photo booth, but it's a VW
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bus right here along the side of the
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there. There's the fire trucks.
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Well, one's a fire
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truck. The other one looks like a bus of
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some sort.
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to see them in
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operation. There's two fields over here.
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Baseball and football or two baseball
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fields. I'm going to walk over there.
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Check it out. Only the LG Twins and the
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Ducson Bears, I'm assuming.
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Wonder where the next game
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is. All right, here's a layout of the
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land. Evidently, these were built for
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the Olympics back in 1988. Right there,
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sold
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1988, this complex. And they're still
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continuing to use it. Baseball stadium
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is one I was just showing, but there's
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also Olympic stadium up
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here. Then you got gymnasium, swimming
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pool, student
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gymnasium, and I even see the five
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circles from the Olympics up here on the
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side of the Olympic Stadium. That's
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pretty
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Feel like the temperature might be
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dropping a little bit. It's known as
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Star
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Street. Does not appear as if there's a
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game. It's interesting how the team bus
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is just sitting over there. It's also
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interesting you can just walk the
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perimeter of the stadium like right up
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to the stadium.
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was actually watching some Korean
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baseball on TV the other
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night and it was pouring rain. No rain
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delays. They don't pull a tarp out over
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the field. No one leaves. Crowd was
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going
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wild. I'd like to go to a game. I don't
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know if it's going to work
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out. Maybe though.
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Maybe. Have a leaf blower.
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This is really a cool walk through
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now. Evidently, I'm a couple miles from
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Olympic Park, so maybe I'll grab a an
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Uber.
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and head over to Olympic Park since I'm
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kind of on doing some Olympic stuff. Go
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over and check that out. Same vicinity,
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but it's a couple miles that way. All
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right, Uber taxi ordered. You can order
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taxis through the Uber
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app. Get out of the elements for a
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little bit because hands are a little
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cold. I feel like the temperature is
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dropping. So, be nice to be in the car
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for a little while.
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All right, he's off the Uber
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taxi and the
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bus. Olympic Park right over there.
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There's another taxi. They're
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everywhere. I've arrived at Olympic
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Park. Soul Olympic Park 1988. You got
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the first, second, third
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place. This tiger got second place. Hold
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up to number
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two. This cute little p is a panda or a
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I don't know what this is. The number
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three. First place would be right there,
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but probably pretty slick if you stood
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up on there. And this very impressive I
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don't want to call it an archway, but
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very impressive piece.
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Nightcape. It's
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fantastic. Wow, it's cloudy out. These
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birds. It just swooped down. This is
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looking the opposite way. Take a look at
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the huge tower there. Just engulfed in
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clouds.
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Is this supposed to be the flame that's
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always
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on? All right, I just translated on this
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app. The door we cut off the
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torch. Gas of pe gas of peace due to
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natural disasters. Please excuse me.
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Okay. So, they had to take they had to
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turn the torch
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off. That was certainly the thing I was
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most excited about seeing is the flame
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that's always burning from the Olympics
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continually. But evidently there was an
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courtyard. All right, looking at it back
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the other way from here now. That is
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awesome. Look at that. That is
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This is also a very unique sculpture
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here.
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An interesting tree there that's split
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down the
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middle being held up by these
24:01
this I wasn't expecting all these
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sculptures through here. There's bunches
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of them.
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See what this
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signifies. This is made in
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85. So that would have been three years
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before the Olympics were
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here. In this sculpture, mother carrying
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child in the back represents South
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America, mysterious and fanciful region
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of the world.
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This one was made in 88. Supposed to
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represent a discus
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thrower. There's benches here. And
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there's a little
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iron covering and there's tree roots or
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trees that have rooted itself from the
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top portion around the iron portion
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there at the
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end. This chain that's mounted to the
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rock, it's called Dog's Own World. The
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artist named it
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that it represents this dog who's in his
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own world, king of the castle, if you
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will, on his steps.
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does not look very happy. So, probably
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created in
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a not in a positive aspect with the
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chain. I mean, obviously, all art is up
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for interpretation. I mentioned it a
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little bit ago that yesterday was a lot
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colder than it is today. I'll take that
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back. The temperature has
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dropped and the fact that I'm the longer
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I'm out in the elements, it's definitely
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starting to sink into the
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bones. There's an interesting piece of
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art, too, as well. It's
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like I don't know what that's supposed
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to be over there. It's big, though.
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Interesting. There's like a wheel of
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some sort. Wheel of
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doors. This is
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created in 88 as well called
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impersonation
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station. Every
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event is I I am to stress whatever I
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think about that
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history has not been true since a
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certain point in time. If not
27:19
recognized, human beings may disappear
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from the
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earth. Oh, it's got a clock on this end.
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Look at that. It's a clock on that
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end, wheel on the other end.
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Interesting. That is a big thumb. That's
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what it's called. It's called the thumb.
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Another very unique looking building
27:45
over here. This looks to be No, that's
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something that was used for the Olympics
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also. It's like a shopping center,
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but it's across the road. All made out
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of glass. Huge glass windows on that
28:01
building. There might be quite a few
28:03
food options over here. We can go get a
28:06
bowl of soup or something similar,
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something warm. Well, assuming
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that something's open over here.
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flower shops
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open. It actually looks like it go you
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go inside. That's why it doesn't look
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like it's going on outside because you
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go in through these doors and you go
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into the indoor section of the glass
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mall. That makes sense. Yeah. See, it's
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all like a little
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indoor indoor mall over here. Pretty
28:39
neat. All right. Didn't see anything
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inside that caught my attention. So, I
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think I'm going to head back over to the
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area that my hotel's in. See what I can
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find
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food-wise. All right, there goes my Uber
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taxi. Just dropped back
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off. Try some find some food over in
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this
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neighborhood. See what this is over
29:01
here since 1982.
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Soup
29:16
stew. Must try. Wonder how that
29:31
is. All right. This looks pretty good.
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Oh, break break time.
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Okay. They're not open. They're taking a
29:36
break. All right. This place, I think,
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is open. I'll check this place
29:46
out. Open. Give it a
29:46
try. So, I didn't really know what to
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order. I was kind of going through,
29:50
browsing through the menu.
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definitely didn't really understand uh
29:59
the type of food it was, but the worker,
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the lady who worked in there was very
30:06
very kind and she said, "Well, what you
30:08
what you're picking out is going to be
30:09
extremely
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spicy." I said, "Let's do
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it." Called the Royal
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Traditional Yagayak Jang. Yagayak Jang.
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Could be pronouncing that wrong.
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Probably am. I must say it was probably
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the spiciest soup I've ever had. I don't
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know if it's spiciest food, but
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thankfully I had some rice. I didn't
30:34
dump the rice in the bowl like I did
30:36
yesterday when I was on the tour. I had
30:38
a different item. I had rice. I just
30:39
kind of dumped it in the soup because
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the rice acted almost as like a chaser
30:44
for the heat. So, I would be get a
30:46
little spiced up with the soup. It was a
30:49
It was like a beef stew of sorts. And
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then I would chase it with the rice. And
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then I provide a little
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tea. So I had I had the
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traditional
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yuck. Yuck.
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Gaj. I would eat there again.
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I thought, you know, when I order this,
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I might only eat like a couple bites and
31:21
just uh not not be into it. But it was
31:24
good. It was
31:26
good. And my sinuses are open. My mouth
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is
31:31
burning. My taste buds are ignited. I
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think I'm going to go over here to the
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nice to see store, get some get
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something to drink.
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Maybe get a snack and then call it call
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call it a an
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evening. It was a full day. Full rainy
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wet cold day. Full rainy wet cold day.
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Yeah. Nice to see you stores. These are
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very very popular around
31:59
here. Nice to see you stores.
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kind of remind me of
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bugles. Kind of bugle-esque. I got some
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of these yesterday. Not the bugles, but
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I got some of these the other day. They
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were pretty good. So, getting us some
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more. They're pretty
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tasty. And that's going to do it for
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today. A full rainy day in Soul, South
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Korea. South Korea. Cold, rainy, wet.
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Really hop in the next day or two or
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more than that warms up just a little
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bit and it stops raining. But it's not
32:38
unbearable, but it would be pleasant if
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it wasn't as chilly and rainy. See you
32:43
in the next video. Vlog is