{"id":1133,"date":"2014-04-13T06:17:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T06:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2015-07-05T15:33:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T15:33:39","slug":"history-and-modernity-in-seoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/","title":{"rendered":"History and Modernity in Seoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To enjoy the autumn weather we went for another city trip in <strong>October 2012<\/strong>. The Korean capital <strong>Seoul<\/strong> beautifully combines Old and New (History and Modernity) and that&#8217;s what marked\u00a0our trip from A to Z.<\/p>\n<p>From our room (we stayed both in an electronic-equipped hotel room in the hip Gangnam Business District and in a traditional Korean Hanok house only a short walking distance from the Royal Palace) to shopping (stalls selling honey candy made after an old royal recipe next to top-notch shopping malls) to dinner (15 course &#8216;Enlightenment&#8217; meal in a Buddhist restaurant, Korean BBQ or street food) our experiences were very diverse.<\/p>\n<p>An excursion to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone, between North- and South Korea) and a hike to the top of one of the mountains surrounding the city completed our short but excellent Korea trip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Palace.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-517\" title=\"Seoul Palace\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Palace-1024x778.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/seoul-royal-palace\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1145\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1145\" alt=\"Seoul Royal Palace\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Royal-Palace.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Royal-Palace-300x225.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Royal-Palace-73x55.jpg 73w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Royal-Palace-60x45.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/seoul-street-life\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1144\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1144\" alt=\"Seoul Street Life\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Street-Life.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Street-Life.jpg 1563w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Street-Life-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Street-Life-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Street-Life-41x55.jpg 41w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Market1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-543\" title=\"Seoul Market\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Market1-1024x778.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/seoul-city-view\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1140\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1140\" alt=\"Seoul City View\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-City-View.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-City-View-300x225.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-City-View-73x55.jpg 73w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-City-View-60x45.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/seoul-statue-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1142\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1142\" alt=\"Seoul Statue\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Statue1.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Statue1.jpg 2736w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Statue1-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Statue1-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Statue1-41x55.jpg 41w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/people-2\/seoul-kites\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-524\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-524\" alt=\"Seoul Kites\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Kites-.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/seoul-taekwando\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1147\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Taekwando.jpg\" alt=\"Seoul Taekwando\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1147\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Taekwando-300x225.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Taekwando-73x55.jpg 73w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Taekwando-60x45.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-TaekwandoJPG.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-516\" title=\"Seoul TaekwandoJPG\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-TaekwandoJPG-661x1024.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/seoul-mountain-temple\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1146\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1146\" alt=\"Seoul Mountain Temple\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Mountain-Temple.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Mountain-Temple.jpg 1944w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Mountain-Temple-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Mountain-Temple-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Mountain-Temple-41x55.jpg 41w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Bell.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-521\" title=\"Seoul Bell\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Bell-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Bell-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Bell-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Bell.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Leaves.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-522\" title=\"Seoul Leaves\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Leaves-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Jazz-by-Night.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-520\" title=\"Seoul Jazz by Night\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Seoul-Jazz-by-Night-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"577\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/history-and-modernity-in-seoul\/seoul-menu\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1143\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1143\" alt=\"Seoul Menu\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Menu.jpg\" width=\"767\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Menu.jpg 1944w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Menu-225x300.jpg 225w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Menu-768x1024.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Seoul-Menu-41x55.jpg 41w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To enjoy the autumn weather we went for another city trip in October 2012. The Korean capital Seoul beautifully combines Old and New (History and Modernity) and that&#8217;s what marked\u00a0our trip from A to Z. From our room (we stayed both in an electronic-equipped hotel room in the hip Gangnam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[97,6,107,1],"tags":[77,57,75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1160,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}