My old friend Nick arrived in Seoul the Sunday before last to be an ESL teacher. He is in a suburb called Namyangu about an hour outside of Seoul by bus. He came in over the weekend and we went out to the Gangnam area. It's a popular nightlife spot but is much more Korean than Itaewon or Hongdae. We ended up going to a hip-hop club which was pretty funny in Korea. I'm pretty sure we were the only foreigners there and it was a huge club. And yesterday, I went out to visit him in Namyangu. It was the first time I saw anything like it in Korea. It was pretty much a small town. There was a little main street with shops and restaurants, but everything else was just apartment buildings...and lots of space. There were actually empty spaces. And trees. There were hardly any people in the streets, and when I left a few hours later it was completely dead. It was very, very quiet, and the air was noticeably cleaner. Everything was much cheaper as well. I had dinner for 3500 won, which is much less than the dinner we had when he came to Seoul (ended up being 36,000 for the two of us, much more expensive than usual, but still).
One of the teachers there had bought some package where he could watch any NFL game online (and up to four at once) without commercials. We went to a bar and put it up on a projector, and it was great to get to watch football again. It's definitely the best way to watch the sport. No commercials, only the plays, and you never have to wait for something to happen since there's always another game to watch. Four is actually too many though, I think two or three would be better. The Seahawks got beat and then the 49ers won in Arizona, so our playoff hopes are definitely still alive even though we're 4-7. If we beat the Seahawks next week, we're tied with them at 5-7. But Frank Gore got hurt in the Cardinals game so that pretty much ruins our season. The NFC West has got to be the most pathetic division in the history of sports, and I'm sure the division winner will be under .500.
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