Day 8: Kidnapped and taken to a water factory near N. Korea

We woke up at about 10 am for breakfast. We were told that we would be taken to a place up in the mountains to see snow. Alex needed to get his Travelers checks changed and YunHee needed to be picked up. We didn't set out on the trip until 2 pm.

We ate lunch at a small restaurant on the way (a pretty famous Ja Ja Myun place). We ate quickly and set off again.



It wasn't until we were on our way that we found out that we would probably have to spend the night up in the mountains (DOH!). Joseph was particularly unhappy about this because it was Friday and he wanted to go crazy the last 2 nights in Korea (edit by joe: I was more upset by the fact that we weren't able to pack anything for the trip since we didn't know until it was too late).

We arrived at the destination at about 6 pm. We were gonna stay at a water bottle factory up in the mountains. We had daeji (pork) bbq (like the one in Pohang in day 2). We met more of Joseph's extended family.



We were starting to get restless at about 10 pm and started to sing Karaoke at the company.







We couldn't do it all night so we decided we would look for a Norebang in the small town just outside. YunHee and her mother dropped us off at a nice place at about 11 pm.

We decided as soon as we got in that we would rather look around for another place. We walked around for about 20 minutes.. but didn't find anything that we liked and it was freezing cold. We ran into a PC bang and used the internet. Joseph and Alex played some Starcraft.

We called to be picked up at about 1:30 am. We got back to the factory around 2 am.. where we drank the rest of our alcohol and then passed out in one of the rooms designated for workers.