An Oldie But A Goodie

Back before my holidays and before Heidi left for Texas and added "ya'll" to her lexicon, we went to Seodaemoon Prison. This place is where the Japanese sent political prisoners during their latest reign in Korea. It has now been transformed into a great little museum.

Here Heidi (using the skills she learnt from watching hours of America's Next Top Model) captures the terror prisoners must of felt before being locked into upright coffins. Once the door was closed there was no room to move and the prisoners would be left to pretty much die. In the basement there were many more exhibits showing the brutality of the Japanese and to help sell the disgusting things we were looking at screams of pain and suffering played out of the speakers.

A huge Korean flag hanging outside of one of the wings of prison cells.

A view from the inside of one of the wings.

Heidi was brave enough to climb into one of the cells, I get shivers of just thinking about it.


The only patch of lush green grass in Seoul is here in the prison.

A guard house at the back of the prison. We spent about an hour and half wandering around the place before hopping a cab to Itaewon for dinner. It was here that the we got our biggest scare of the day as a yellow and black insect was stuck to my back and I flicked it over to Heidi's side of the seat. Everytime we tried to kill the thing it jumped around sending us into fits of screams that proved the Japanese would of had no trouble getting either of us to squeal.