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Being hard-core soccer player/fans, World Cup Stadium is a must visit site. The weather is so sunny and bright that I feel melted under the sun and it is particularly so when we are at the stadium.

I start to feel that like Beijing, Seoul never runs out of palaces. Flipping on a guidebook and if the search word is culture or history, a list of palaces will jump out. And as if not enough, I take my folks to another palace, the Chang-gyeong-gung Palace.

The landscaping itself is quite interesting.

After two days in Gyeong-Ju, we return to Seoul for our last day’s visit. Seoul itself is actually full of ancient palaces for cultural explorers. The remaining items on my “to-see” list includes the famous Jongmyo, a place where there is annual ceremony of offering to ancestors.

We have two more UNESCO attractions to see in Gyeongju before returning to Seoul. The first one is Bulguksa Temple. Home to seven national treasures of South Korea, this temple displays colorful paintings and precious stone pagodas.

We manage to see a lot of Seoul on our 2nd day and what we see is a mix of the modern and tradition. We also sample some of the traditional Korean food. The good thing about touring on our own is that we have full control of where we want to go and our pace; the bad thing is that we don’t have much elaborated explanations.

However, I found out that dining in Korea is not as interesting as in the bay area. The portion is smaller, the choices are a lot less and the quality is not as good as the Korean restaurants in California.