Seoul subway-11 lines move millions of people each day. Seoul, and the surrounding area has a population of 14 million!

Changdeokgung Palace, Seoul

A view of Seoul along the Han River

City streets-Seoul

Even with public transportation the streets are busy.

Gyeongbokgung Palace, Seoul

1988 Seoul Olympic Stadium at night

2005 Womens' World Conference, Ewha University, Seoul

High School students in Seoul work on an experiment in Chemistry class. South Korea has a 99% literacy rate and 80% of students attend college. Confucian ideals revere an education.

Students at a high School in Gwangju, South Korea.

Korean Aerospace Research Institute satellite command center at Dadeok Technopolis

Dr. Park and Ms. Jones at the KARI museum!

Alternative energy source at Dedeok

The only meteorite known to have landed on South Korean soil.

Andong Village, a traditional Korean village.

Street in Andong

Part of the Hahoe Mask Dance, Andong's traditional mask dance.

Masks of the various characters from the Hahoe mask dance.

Members of our tour dressed in the traditional costumes from Hahoe.

Confucian School started by Toegye, a famous Korean government official and Confucian scholar.

One of the oldest wooden structures in Korea, located at Buseoksa, a Buddhist temple and shrine.

A nuclear reactor at Uljin on the eastern coast of South Korea.

Lowlands are dominated by rice fields and greenhouses for vegetable production.

70 percent of the Korean countryside is mountains.

Greenhouses are used to extend the growing season.

Melons being grown in a greenhouse.

Fields of ginseng, shaded from the sun by black tarps