Jun 2003

It was 26-28 June 2003.

Gyeongju is located in the south-east part of Korea peninsula. This probably the recommended place to go when you visit to south-east part of Korea. This place is rich of Korea cultural and artifacts from very ancient time, such as neolitic age, bronze age, and beginning of iron age, as this place is old Silla capital kingdom. Silla is a part of trilogy kingdoms story of Korea history. To find the complete information, you can visit the Gyeongju National museum. There are also some small original-like 'stupa's and big bell from that periode.

How about tasting the original tea of Gyeongju? Yap, this region also has a special traditional tea ceremony. 15 minutes just for drinking a cup of tea! for me, it will be less than 1 minute and one more minute for another 2-3 cups more. ke ke ..
Also still in this region, there is Buddha temple, Bulguksa means land of happiness. It is a temple complex with some pagoda and old buiding, also small river flows there. Silent and nice.

Do you know 'hyundai'? A giant corporation from South Korea. Hyundai is one of the top company in Korea besides LG, KIA, and Samsung. And Ulsan is where hyundai company is. As the basis of Hyundai corp., sometimes this city is called as hyundai city. It is an industrial city and some other bigs company are there also, for example SK petroleum refinery plant, polimer, and so on. I have a chance to enter the Hyundai heavy industries and when you entered it you have to be guided. Many large ships being built in the dry docks. Hyndai ship is one of the topmost ship building industries in the world with around, it said, around 60 produced big ships per year.

Near Hyundai, there is an oil refinery, SK Corporation, which is the first oil refining company of Korea and has led the general energy and chemical industry in Korea. They also produced some basic chemical for polimer industry, such as propilen. The refined oil and products are exported to China. Do you believe that if all the pipelines are put together end-to-end then the entire length of pipelines will be able to reach the moon. That the officer said.