Sunday day out!

Decided to roam around today. Snow stopped when we got ready and stepped out of house. After snow the road is slippary slowly walked and took a taxi to Suwon subway station. I like the idea of subway system, inexpensive and simple and neat ideas. The tracks have color coding. The map given to us has the color coding and places covered by subway station. All we have to do is to find the way to our station, if the tracks color change then it is transfer station. Get down there and follow the color code. Interestingly all the train, platform numbers follow the same color. It is like theme, simple idea makes huge difference.

Also ticket, there is a machine at the gate which won't open unless you give ticket. At the destination, it opens the door and keeps the tickets, in all other stations it just gives back the ticket.

Travelled in subway to reach a place called Iteawon. Iteawon is a place there are lot of foreigners for reason I don't know, also lot of resturants from all parts of world. It was a rich area! Had food at hotel Asoka. It was nice to had Vada,sambar,Dosa in Korea. But it is very expensive place. Ambiance was good. Food was tasty.

The subway station had a tourist information place, where more maps and more details are given. We wanted to goto Seoul tower. All we had to do is take a yellow bus. Again color! Very interesting! It was very simple, took the bus and terminus was Seoul tower. Seoul tower is I guess on top of small hit, temperature further dropped, but it was beautiful place. There was a teddy bear museum there. There is teddy past and present. Using the teddy bear they tell the Korean history and current. There are large cute teddy's everywhere. After spending sometime there went to seoul tower using elevator, it is a fast elevator and could feel pressure dropping(air in ear got blocked). It is a beautiful view of seoul from top. The cars moving slowly in broad roads looks beautiful from top, one side full yellow headlights other side red parking lights. Also telescopes there to see! It was very nice!

When we are on the top of tower it again started snowing, this time there was breeze as well it was fast movement. It took the color from the lights from floor below us. Sometimes it was green sometimes red. Awesome!

Came out and took an yellow bus and came back the same way we went!

I see a lot of decipline in people here. They all follow queue, they stand in the destined places, no one sits in the seats allocated for elders/pregnant women even if it empty. Interestingly in both bus and train there is less of seats, more place is left for people to stand. Brilliant idea. This will help to move more people comfortably. Korea seem to be similar to India in terms of population, lot of people everywhere. Never left alone. While designing our system we should probably pick up ideas from folks here.

Subway train stops every two minutes in a station and covers lot of places.

On way back went to home plus huge super market! Picked up some essentials! Here again to avoid people leaving trolley everywhere, has a coin based lock. Put a coin and pull trolley once the trolley is pushed to other trolley's in the trolley place your lock opens and you can take the coin back!

In the supermarket you would have to pay if you need a cover(plastic). I was so impressed! Rather than just talking about pollution, we can just implement such things!

It was a nice Sunday.