I’ll make this a short entry… I have to catch my ferry back to Pohang. I went around to Chusan and Cheonbu again this morning, and also rode the cable car to the top of the hill here in Dodong. Mostly just wandering-around-sightseeing, as I tend to do.
Ulleungdo is famous for the things it makes with pumpkin, among other things, and although pumpkin is not normally one of my preferred tastes, they have these pumpkin jellied candies (섬더덕 제리) that are pretty good. [Correction!–dated 2009-09-17–섬더덕 is not pumpkin, but rather Codonopsis lanceolata (see wikipedia). I was confused because the woman selling to me was confused, but a friendly man on the ferry back from Pohang enlightened me. Anyway, I like the candies a lot, and probably the fact that it’s not pumpkin explains why.] I have bought some bags of them to take back to the LBridge kids, if I get a chance to pass them out on my last goodbye visit next Monday/Tuesday.
I’m pretty sure I’m headed back to Seoul tomorrow. Not that there aren’t tons of other places in Korea that I haven’t seen and that I would love to see, but I have a week left, at this point, and although I lived in Seoul (well, suburbs) for two years, there are a lot of toursity things I never got the chance to do. This will be my chance to explore and get to know a bit better the city that’s been my home.