The architecture of the museum was impressive. I'll post some pictures below, otherwise, it was about the same as any museum. The focus seemed to be on historical artifacts and calligraphy. A lot of school children were there on field trips.
N Seoul Tower
Seoul tower is situated on top of a large hill in the middle-ish of Seoul. We got off at the Myung-dong subway stop and then followed instructions given on Korea's tourism website. The instructions made it sound like we were climbing Mt. Everest. There were like 10 instructions to follow when really all they had to say was "follow the road up the side of the hill and look for the cable car station".
You get to the cable car station and pay a fee to ride up to the base of the actual tower. Then you get to the base of the tower and get to pay another fee to go up to the top to the 360 degree view. Luckily there are some things to keep you occupied if you don't want to pay the fee to go to the top. We walked around the base station which gives you a mediocre view of the surrounding area. They have walls up around the edge of the best viewing areas so...they somewhat impede your views. A couple of restaurants are also present, we ate at one of them.
We got a warning that it would be about an hour until we would be able to go up to the top of the tower so we walked around the gift shop and took our time at dinner. Once our time rolled around we walked into the building where the elevator was, skipped the obligatory tourist photo station, and hopped in the elevators. They were VERY fast, only a couple of seconds and *poof*, you were at the top. There was an entertaining video projected on the ceiling of the elevator showing you blasting off into space.
Without further delay...here are the pictures (credit my friend's D-SLR):
There were a lot of couples at the Tower that evening. Just like everywhere else we went in Seoul...haha
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