Last full day in South Korea! We started our day by taking a long bus ride to an Oil Park where we planned on touring. Upon arrival, it seemed a bit empty, and apparently it was closed for tourism. We had to be flexible and adapt, so we decided to walk around the Oil Park…
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Pizza, Pumps, and Purification: Day 11
Hey y’all! This morning, we headed to the Oil Tank Culture Park, a sustainability-focused public space that’s won numerous awards for its repurposed architectural design. Unfortunately, it was closed during our visit, which was disappointing given how highly it’s regarded. Still, the detour gave us time to explore the surrounding area before our final site…
Day 11: Oil Park and Water
The day started off with breakfast and getting ready for the day. We had to wear business causal due to the company visit we had later in the day. We started off at the Oil Park Culture Park, during the 70s when there was oil shortage, Korea built these oil tanks to storage and preserve…
Seoul Day 12!
Today was our final full day in Seoul. Our day started a bit later today, for we were given the morning to prepare for the presentation as a group. The main thing today was our presentation, and we had to take the subway to get to the location of our presentation. We had the whole…
Water Ways (Day 11)
I’m devastated to say that today was the last official day of cultural or company visits. We planned for two company visits today, an Oil Tank Culture Park and Seoul Waterworks HQ. It was a very hot and humid day, which was very unfortunate especially because the Oil Tank was outside. Unluckily, the actual Oil…
Day 11
Oil and Water Today we set off nice and early in our business casual for our last site visit of the trip. Before then we did I quick stop in oil tanker culture park, a park the doubles as museum and walking paths through trees. However, unfortunately it had recently been sold as private property,…
Day 10
DMZ and Baseball Today started relatively late at 930 and our first stop was to a small restaurant before the DMZ where we had some solider stew. This a recipe from the Korean war where food was scavenged from camps of other countries’ soldiers left and seasonal vegetables. The strew we had included hot dog,…
Behind the Tap: A Visit to Ttukdo
Today we had another company visit to a water purification center, known as Ttukdo Arisu. Here, we got to see the process it takes to purify water for the city of Seoul. Ttukdo is one of 6 water purification facilities which, all together, provides clean and safe tap water to the citizens of Seoul. The…
Battle Fields and Baseball (Day 10)
Today’s activities were the DMZ and a baseball game. Both of these were so much different than I was expecting. We went to the DMZ and I learned a lot about life there. I never knew there were tunnels that the North Koreans built to try to invade South Korea. They were very chill about…
Water, Water, Water
Today was the last day of our site visits, and it was both informative and eye-opening!We started the day by visiting the Oil Park, followed by a tour of the Water Purification Center. Unfortunately, the Oil Park was recently purchased by a private owner, so public access was limited. Although we couldn’t explore much of…
Seoul Day 11!
Today, I could feel the trip start to wind down. The first thing we went to was the oil tank culture park. This park stored oil, and we thought we could see inside to see the oil. Sadly, it’s a new company now, and we weren’t given access. So we moved on to our next…
Plus3 Korea 5/21/25
Today we left in the morning to go to the oil tank culture park, which entailed taking a few different buses to the area near the Seoul World Cup stadium. Once we got to the park though we found out it had recently been bought out by a private company and was closed for renovations,…
Park Installation and Water Purification: Day 11
This morning, we took the public bus to the Oil Tank Culture Park. During the 1970’s, when the world was going through a petroleum shortage, Korea built up Oil Tanks to store and preserve the valuable resource. In 2017, the city turned the unutilized oil tanks into a green space as an initiative towards more…
Tanks, Temples, and Texas Roadhouse (Day 9)
Monday morning started a little earlier than the past few days, but it wasn’t too bad. We were still able to get breakfast before getting on our private bus. The bus took us to Camp Casey, where Grace and Will showed us around the base. We went to the motor pool where they keep some…
Plus3 Korea 5/20/25
Today we had a chartered bus scheduled to take us to the DMZ, Demilitarized Zone, since it’s a fair distance away from our hotel. On the drive there as, we got more and more north we drove past a few places where North Korea was visible in the distance which really drove home how close…
Day 11 in Korea: Last Blog!!!
Today is the last blog post about my trip to South Korea!!! I can’t believe it’s over. I have learned so much and seen so many different things. This trip has been a blast for me. Today was an enjoyable day. We started the day by going to an oil park, which wasn’t very interesting….
Water Treatment & Oil
Today marks the final day of company visits in Seoul. On this exciting day, our first stop was an oil tanker park that was sadly closed off to the public for in-house tours. To make the best of the day, the group walked around the beautiful park and stared at the wonders of the Seoul…
Oil Tank Park and Waterworks
As the trip has been coming to an end, we started the morning at the Oil Tank Culture Park, a former oil depot turned public cultural space. Unfortunately, the inside of the tanks were closed for the day, so we couldn’t go on the full tour. Still, walking around the massive tanks and park space was…
Bases and Baseball
Today started foggy and early with a long bus ride to one of the most historically and politically charged sites in the world — the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Though we were expecting sunny weather, we were instead met with thick fog and dreary skies. Strangely enough, it added to the gravity of the place….
Climbing, Calzones, and Camp Casey
We started the day early with breakfast—mini chocolate chip muffins are still my go-to favorite. After that, it was back on the bus, this time headed to Camp Casey. At first glance, the base looked a little plain and not exactly welcoming from the outside, but once inside, it was massive. There were buildings everywhere,…