| What beautiful
country. In this setting is the Seokguram Grotto. It's bell can be heard
for miles. |
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The road to the grotto
winds down the side of a mountain. The dense trees provide coverage and
creates a tranquil internal cleansing.
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Before
entering the grotto, visitors traditionally wash their hands in the fountain
in order to cleanse impurities of the outside world. They also rinse their
mouth with the water as a symbolic gesture of cleaning ones words. |
| The Bulguksa
Temple was first built 1300 years ago. It has been destroyed and rebuilt
several times. It is presently a working temple. The priest was teaching
how to leave your present character so you can go out to do kind things
to others. |
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our bus drive the very efficient Korean police clocked our bus going over
the speed limit. We were stopped and there was NO getting around the ticket.
It seems there is very equal distribution of justice in Korea. Since our
driver was trying his best to get us to our appointment on time we took
up a collection to to help him pay for the ticket. He is a good man. |
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Hyundai
Motors makes cars. Roles of steel enter the plant and emerge from the other
end as cars. The Hyundai message: We want to be among the top 5 auto manufacturers
in the world. The plant we visited employs over 25,000 people in two shifts.
It is highly automated and the plant can produce over a thousand cars per
day. The plant is built beside their own shipping dock so the cars can be
driven directly onto huge car carrying ships and delivered anywhere in the
world very efficiently. |
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Hyundai Heavy Industries
among other things operates the largest ship yard in the world. 23,000
employees work a single shift to make ships some over 1,000 feet long.
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The
little pieces you see in the foreground are parts of a ship that have
been pre-assembled. Each little piece weigh over 200 tons.
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Quick Facts: it takes
10 months to design a ship and 10 months to build it. This is the biggest
shipyard in the world. They can build 29 ships at one time. Some ships
cost as high as $240 million US...
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The blue
items are ship engines. They are as long as our bus and at least three stories
high. |
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